Table 5.

Clinical characteristics of 10 NPC patients with just 1 course of RT

Number	Sex	Age (years)	Stage	Skull base erosion at diagnosis	GTV volume of the primary cancer (cm3)	RT dose	GTV Vol >105% (cm3)	Chemotherapy manner	Cycles of chemotherapy	Trismus before the incidence of bleeding	Hypertension	Diabetic	Use of TCM	Nasopharynx irrigation	Use of brachytherapy	Surgical intervention
1	M	63	II	No	50.6	70 Gy/30F	20.1	None	None	Yes	Yes	No	No	None	No	No
2	F	66	III	Yes	88.9	70 Gy/32F	29.8	C+A	4	Yes	No	Yes	No	KDI	No	No
3	M	57	III	Yes	135.6	70 Gy/32F	91.5	C+A	4	Yes	No	No	No	None	No	No
4	M	64	III	No	87.4	70 Gy/31F	72.5	Cc	2	Yes	No	Yes	No	KDI	No	No
5	M	52	IVa	Yes	107.9	70 Gy/32F	67.2	C+A	5	Yes	Yes	No	No	ODI	No	No
6	M	65	III	Yes	62.7	70 Gy/31F	28.1	C+A	4	Yes	Yes	No	No	ODI	No	No
7	M	69	IVa	Yes	165.8	70 Gy/35F	94.2	C+A	6	Yes	No	Yes	No	None	No	No
8	F	62	IVa	Yes	145.6	70 Gy/32F	99.2	C+A	6	Yes	No	No	No	ODI	No	No
9	M	73	IVa	Yes	107.2	70 Gy/32F	71.1	C+A	6	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	None	No	No
10	M	56	II	No	49.2	69 Gy/30F	39.6	None	None	No	No	No	No	None	No	No

Notes: Concurrent chemotherapy program consisted of cisplatin; the adjuvant chemotherapy program consisted of cisplatin and 5-fluorouracil.

Abbreviations: GTV, gross tumor volume; KDI, keep doing irrigation; NPC, nasopharyngeal carcinoma; ODI, occasionally doing irrigation; RT, radiotherapy; TCM, traditional Chinese medicine; C+A, concurrent + adjuvant; Cc, concurrent chemotherapy.