[Therapeutic results in a series of 73 cases of nasopharyngeal carcinoma]

Abstract

From 1975 to 1982, 73 cases of nasopharyngeal carcinoma were treated in Strasbourg (Centre Paul Strauss) and Metz (CHR Bon Secours). 34.1% of the patients were of maghrebine origin, the others were europeans. Two histological types were studied: undifferentiated carcinomas of UCNT type, spinocellulars carcinomas of CS type. 60.3% of the patients had T3 and T4 stages, and only 27.4% of the patients had no pathological nodal. As to treatment, radiotherapy is the best choice, because of the deep situation and the frequent involvement of nodals in the nasopharyngeal carcinoma. Taking into account the level of radiation doses, complications remain acceptable. The rate of overall failure is 51.3% at 3 years. The prognostic factors are essentially linked with sex, age, tumor site, site, histological type, T stage of UICC classification and TNM of the same classification, N stage of HO classification, and evaluation of treatment response realised at 4 months. The crude overall survival rate is 52% for patients of the serie.