A 50-year-old man was admitted with complaints of persistent left nasal cavity bleeding and hearing impairment. Nasopharyngeal fiber optic endoscopy and histopathological biopsy indicated a poorly differentiated nonkeratinizing nasopharyngeal carcinoma. Magnetic resonance imaging was performed and showed an irregularly shaped tumor in the left lateral nasopharynx, extending to the left parapharyngeal space, with multiple lymph node metastases in the left neck.
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b) Chemoradiotherapy using intensity-modulated radiation therapy
Nasopharyngeal carcinoma is cancer that occurs in the nasopharynx, which is located behind your nose and above the back of your throat. The standard treatment for nasopharyngeal carcinoma is chemoradiotherapy for more advanced lesions. Intensity-modulated radiation therapy modulates the radiation beams so that a high dose can be delivered to the tumor while the dose to the normal tissues is reduced.
