A current recommendation for the treatment of patients with locoregionally advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is conventional fractionated radiotherapy (RT) with concurrent cisplatin followed by adjuvant cisplatin and 5‐fluorouracil (PF). This… Click to show full abstract
A current recommendation for the treatment of patients with locoregionally advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is conventional fractionated radiotherapy (RT) with concurrent cisplatin followed by adjuvant cisplatin and 5‐fluorouracil (PF). This randomized NPC‐0501 trial evaluated the therapeutic effect of changing to an induction‐concurrent sequence or accelerated‐fractionation sequence, and/or replacing 5‐fluorouracil with capecitabine (X).
               
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