Comparison of concurrent chemoradiotherapy versus neoadjuvant chemotherapy followed by radiation in patients with advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma in endemic area: experience of 128 consecutive cases with 5 year follow-up

Table 3 Frequency, site of first recurrence and first salvage treatment modality for locoregional recurrence

	CCRT group (n = 90)		NACT group (n = 38)
	No.	%	No.	%
First failure site
Locoregional	12	13.3	9	23.7
Distant	14^a	15.6	8	21.1
Lung	4		4
Bone	6		2
Liver	5		1
Others	2^b		1^c
First treatment modality for locoregional failure
Surgery	1	8.3	-
Re-irradiation	1	8.3	6	66.7
Re-CCRT	5	41.7	3	33.3
Chemotherapy	5	41.7	-

^aOne patient had bone and lung metastases concurrently and the other one had bone, liver and lung metastases simultaneously ^bone patient developed mediastinal lymph node metastases and the other one developed para-aortic lymph node metastases ^cthe subject developed axillary lymph node metastases.

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