The role of elective nodal irradiation for esthesioneuroblastoma patients with clinically negative neck.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Although adjuvant radiation to the tumor bed has been reported to improve the clinic outcomes of esthesioneuroblastoma (ENB) patients, the role of elective neck irradiation (ENI) in clinically node-negative (N0) patients remains controversial. Here, we evaluated the effects of ENI on neck nodal relapse risk in ENB patients treated with radiation therapy as a component of multimodality treatment.

Methods and materials

Seventy-one N0 ENB patients irradiated at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center between 1970 and 2013 were identified. ENI was performed on 22 of these patients (31%). Survival analysis was performed with focus on comparative outcomes of those patients who did and did not receive ENI.

Results

The median follow-up time for our cohort is

SUBMITTER: Jiang W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5286455 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul-Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature