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Open AccessComparison Long-term Outcome of Definitive Radiotherapy plus Different Chemotherapy Schedules in Patients with Advanced Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma
Concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CCRT) is the current standard of care for advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). We hypothesize that shifting CCRT to neoadjuvant chemotherapy followed by radiotherapy (NeoCT-RT...
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End-of-life care for head and neck cancer patients: a population-based study
Head and neck cancers (HNCs) usually present a poor prognosis and cause high morbidity rates. Recent surveys have demonstrated that HNC incidence rates are still on the increase in many countries. Our study ob...
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The diagnosis of sinonasal lymphoma: a challenge for rhinologists
The presenting symptoms of sinonasal lymphoma are usually similar to those of benign inflammatory diseases. Adequate amount of biopsy tissue is required for a definitive diagnosis because tumor coexisting with...
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A 3-D mathematical model was presented for the cooling process of iron ore pellets based on the laws of mass, momentum, and heat transfer. The flow, pressure, and temperature fields were obtained by numerical ...
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Long-term result of management of otitis media with effusion in patients with post-irradiated nasopharyngeal carcinoma
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Steroid treatment of posttraumatic anosmia
The objective of this study was to treat posttraumatic anosmia with oral steroid and evaluate its effect. One-hundred sixteen posttraumatic patients whose olfactory thresholds were –1.0 by the phenyl ethyl alc...
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Quantitative comparison screening of seismological indexes and research on the integrated prediction method in North China
