Analysis of Prognostic Factors for Internal Carotid Artery Invasion by Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The prognostic impact of internal carotid artery (ICA) invasion in nasopharyngeal cancer (NPC) patients is not well established. Thus, we conducted a retrospective study to analyze the prognostic factors for ICA invasion by NPC.

Methods

This retrospective study included consecutive biopsy-proven NPC patients who received CCRT from November 2015 to December 2022 at E-Da Hospital. Patients were then classified into two groups according to ICA invasion by tumor or not. Survival was estimated by the Kaplan-Meier method with a five-year overall survival (OS) rate and five-year disease specific survival (DSS) rate.

Results

A total of 191 patients with pathologically confirmed NPC were included in this study, with 54 patients in the ICA invasion group and 137 pati

SUBMITTER: Lien CF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11816255 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature