Table 1.

Clinical features of 35 newly diagnosed patients with NPC

	Classification	Number of patients
Sex	Male	24
	Female	11
Age range (years)	28-65 (median: 46 years)
Histologic classification (WHO)	I + IIa	3
	IIb	32
T classification*	T1	3
	T2	9
	T3	18
	T4	5
N classification*	N0	16
	N1	9
	N2	10
	N3	0
Clinical stage*	I	3
	II	8
	III	19
	IV	5

*Staging according to the 2002 American Joint Committee on Cancer criteria.