Toxicity increases with combined chemo/radiation treatments for nasopharyngeal carcinoma

Thursday, July 15, 2010 - 16:28 in Health & Medicine

Although the standard practice of treating patients with advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma using radiation and chemotherapy may reduce cancer deaths compared to patients treated with radiation alone, non-cancer-related deaths and toxicity problems have been shown to increase, according to a recent study.

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