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Advances in targeted therapy mainly based on signal pathways for nasopharyngeal carcinoma
- Source :
- Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy, Vol 5, Iss 1, Pp 1-20 (2020), Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Nature Publishing Group, 2020.
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Abstract
- Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is a malignant epithelial carcinoma of the head and neck region which mainly distributes in southern China and Southeast Asia and has a crucial association with the Epstein–Barr virus. Based on epidemiological data, both incidence and mortality of NPC have significantly declined in recent decades grounded on the improvement of living standard and medical level in an endemic region, in particular, with the clinical use of individualized chemotherapy and intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) which profoundly contributes to the cure rate of NPC patients. To tackle the challenges including local recurrence and distant metastasis in the current NPC treatment, we discussed the implication of using targeted therapy against critical molecules in various signal pathways, and how they synergize with chemoradiotherapy in the NPC treatment. Combination treatment including targeted therapy and IMRT or concurrent chemoradiotherapy is presumably to be future options, which may reduce radiation or chemotherapy toxicities and open new avenues for the improvement of the expected functional outcome for patients with advanced NPC.
- Subjects :
- Oncology
Cancer Research
medicine.medical_specialty
medicine.medical_treatment
lcsh:Medicine
Review Article
Targeted therapy
Internal medicine
Epidemiology
Genetics
medicine
otorhinolaryngologic diseases
lcsh:QH301-705.5
Cancer
Chemotherapy
Signal Pathways
business.industry
Incidence (epidemiology)
lcsh:R
medicine.disease
Radiation therapy
stomatognathic diseases
Nasopharyngeal carcinoma
lcsh:Biology (General)
business
Chemoradiotherapy
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20593635
- Volume :
- 5
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....fb2cd9a3f218295521d42fca5faa7c98