Nomograms for predicting long-term survival in patients with non-metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma in an endemic area.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Nomogram for predicting more than a 5-year survival for non-metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) was lacking. This study aimed to develop the new nomograms to predict long-term survival in these patients.

Results

The median follow-up time for training set and test set was 95.2 months and 133.3 months, respectively. The significant predictors for death were age, gender, body mass index (BMI), T stage, N stage, lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), and radiotherapy techniques. For predicting recurrence, age, gender, T stage, LDH, and radiotherapy techniques were significant predictors, whereas age, gender, BMI, T stage, N stage and LDH were significant predictors for distant metastasis. The calibration curves showed the good agreements between nomogram-predicted and actual

SUBMITTER: Zeng Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5045427 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature