Can nasopharyngeal carcinoma be cured in its advanced stage?

Nasopharyngeal carcinoma is a very common malignant tumor of the head and neck, which is less likely to be completely cured at an advanced stage and is also very difficult. Because there is no surgical treatment for nasopharyngeal carcinoma in advanced stage, the treatment is mainly radiotherapy, which can be combined with adjuvant chemotherapy. Generally speaking, many nasopharyngeal carcinomas are hypofractionated or undifferentiated carcinomas, which have a very high degree of malignancy, plus the fact that they are already in advanced stage when they are discovered, and some of them are accompanied by metastasis in the neck or supraclavicular lymph nodes. However, through reasonable treatment, such as comprehensive anti-tumor therapy, the progression of the disease can usually be controlled and the survival period prolonged. If the patient can exceed 5 years without recurrence, it is considered as clinical cure. This is also a more miraculous situation, but it also exists clinically, so don’t give up the treatment.