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Table 1 Patient and disease characteristics

From: Post-radiation sinusitis is associated with recurrence in nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients treated with intensity-modulated radiation therapy

Patient and Disease Characteristics

No (%)

Age Median (range)

48.5 (18–80)

Gender

 Male

177 (77)

 Female

53 (23)

Histology

 WHO type 1

3 (1.3)

 WHO type 2.1 undifferentiated

77 (33.6)

 WHO type 2.2 differentiated

112 (48.7)

 WHO type 2 NOS

37 (16.1)

 WHO type 3 basaloid

1 (0.4)

AJCC 7th Stage

 I/II/III/IV

30 (13)/77 (33.5)/78 (33.9)/45 (19.6)

T stage

 1/2/3/4

106 (46.1)/61 (26.5)/34 (14.8)/29 (12.6)

N stage

 0/1/2/3

59 (25.7)/86 (37.4)/66 (28.4)/19 (8.3)

RT modality

 HT

155 (67.4)

 VMAT

75 (32.6)

Treatment factors

 RT alone

38 (16.5)

 NACT+RT/NACCRT

169 (73.5)

 CCRT

23 (10)

Sinusitis

 Pre-radiation sinusitis

  No

105 (45.7)

  Yes

125 (54.3)

 Post-radiation sinusitis

  No

123 (53)

  Yes

107 (47)

  1. Abbreviations: VMAT volumetric modulated arc therapy, HT helical tomotherapy, NACT neoadjuvant chemotherapy, NACCRT neoadjuvant chemotherapy followed by concurrent chemoradiotherapy, CCRT concurrent chemoradiotherapy