Yuan Zhang, Lei Chen, Guo-Qing Hu, Ning Zhang, Xiao-Dong Zhu, Kun-Yu Yang, Feng Jin, Mei Shi, Yu-Pei Chen, Wei-Han Hu, Zhi-Bin Cheng, Si-Yang Wang, Ye Tian, Xi-Cheng Wang, Yan Sun, Jin-Gao Li, Wen-Fei Li, Yu-Hong Li, Ling-Long Tang, Yan-Ping Mao, Guan-Qun Zhou, Rui Sun, Xu Liu, Rui Guo, Guo-Xian Long, Shao-Qiang Liang, Ling Li, Jing Huang, Jin-Hua Long, Jian Zang, Qiao-Dan Liu, Li Zou, Qiong-Fei Su, Bao-Min Zheng, Yun Xiao, Ying Guo, Fei Han, Hao-Yuan Mo, Jia-Wei Lv, Xiao-Jing Du, Cheng Xu, Na Liu, Ying-Qin Li, Melvin L K Chua, Fang-Yun Xie, Ying Sun, Jun Ma
BACKGROUND: Platinum-based concurrent chemoradiotherapy is the standard of care for patients with locoregionally advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma. Additional gemcitabine and cisplatin induction chemotherapy has shown promising efficacy in phase 2 trials. METHODS: In a parallel-group, multicenter, randomized, controlled, phase 3 trial, we compared gemcitabine and cisplatin as induction chemotherapy plus concurrent chemoradiotherapy with concurrent chemoradiotherapy alone...
September 19, 2019: New England Journal of Medicine