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Table 4 The clinical characteristics of the patients that did RT and did not do RT in different risk stratifications

From: Subdivision of de-novo metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma based on tumor burden and pretreatment EBV DNA for therapeutic guidance of locoregional radiotherapy

 

Low risk

Intermediate risk

High risk

Characteristic

non-LRRT

LRRT

P value

non-LRRT

LRRT

P value

non-LRRT

LRRT

P value

Age (years)

 ≤ 47

15 (44.1%)

69 (52.3%)

0.445

20 (41.7%)

42 (46.7%)

0.595

52 (49.5%)

48 (53.5%)

0.567

 > 47

19 (55.9%)

63 (47.7%)

 

28 (58.3%)

48 (53.3%)

 

53 (50.5%)

41 (46.1%)

 

Gender

 Male

28 (82.4%)

110 (83.3%)

1.000

34 (70.8%)

75 (83.3%)

0.124

93 (88.6%)

74 (83.1%)

0.304

 Female

6 (17.6%)

22 (16.7%)

 

14 (29.2%)

15 (16.7%)

 

12 (11.4%)

15 (16.9%)

 

Smoking

 No smoking

22 (64.7%)

70 (53.0%)

0.250

28 (58.3%)

53 (58.9%)

1.000

59 (56.2%)

46 (51.7%)

0.565

 Smoking

12 (35.3%)

62 (47.0%)

 

20 (41.7%)

37 (41.1%)

 

46 (43.8%)

43 (48.3%)

 

Family history

 No

31 (91.2%)

113 (85.6%)

0.425

44 (91.7%)

83 (92.2%)

1.000

95 (90.5%)

81 (91.0%)

1.000

 Yes

3 (8.8%)

19 (14.4%)

 

4 (8.3%)

7 (7.8%)

 

10 (9.5%)

8 (9.0%)

 

T stage #

 T1-T2

4 (11.8%)

24 (18.2%)

0.451

9 (18.8%)

17 (18.9%)

1.000

16 (15.2%)

13 (14.6%)

1.000

 T3-T4

30 (88.2%)

108 (81.8%)

 

39 (81.3%)

73 (81.1%)

 

89 (84.8%)

76 (85.4%)

 

N stage #

 N0-N1

9 (26.5%)

35 (26.5)

1.000

6 (12.5%)

18 (20.0%)

0.348

15 (14.3%)

20 (22.5%)

0.189

 N2-N3

25 (73.5%)

97 (73.5%)

 

42 (87.5%)

72 (80.0%)

 

90 (85.7%)

69 (77.5%)

 

No. of metastatic organ

 1

34 (100.0%)

132 (100.0%)

48 (100.0%)

90 (100.0%)

34 (32.4)

37 (41.6%)

0.232

 > 1

 

 

71 (67.6%)

52 (58.4%)

 

No. of metastatic tumor number

 ≤ 5

34 (100.0%)

132 (100.0%)

48 (100.0%)

90 (100.0%)

15 (14.3%)

19 (21.3%)

0.256

 > 5

 

 

90 (85.7%)

70 (78.7%)

 

EBV-DNA (Copies/ml)

 ≤ 25,000

34 (100.0%)

132 (100.0%)

25 (23.8%)

23 (25.8%)

0.868

  > 25,000

 

48 (100.0%)

90 (100.0%)

 

80 (76.2%)

66 (74.2%)

 

Chemotherapy regimens

 TPF

7 (20.6%)

36 (27.3%)

< 0.001

11 (22.9%)

26 (28.9%)

0.336

22 (21.0%)

26 (29.2%)

0.004

 TP

5 (14.7%)

36 (27.3%)

 

10 (20.8%)

20 (22.2%)

 

21 (20.0%)

29 (32.6%)

 

 PF

15 (44.1%)

27 (20.5%)

 

10 (20.8%)

26 (28.9%)

 

33 (31.4%)

18 (20.2%)

 

 GP

5 (14.7%)

3 (2.3%)

 

4 (8.3%)

6 (6.7%)

 

9 (8.6%)

0 (0.0%)

 

 Others

2 (5.9%)

30 (22.7%)

 

13 (27.1%)

12 (13.3%)

 

20 (19.0%)

16 (18.0%)