clinical outcome and prognostic factors for nasopharyngeal carcinoma: a single institution study in iran

Background: evidence about survival of the patients with nasopharyngeal cancer is scant in our region and the aim of the current study was to determine clinico-pathological factors influencing outcome of these patients. methods: we reviewed all patients with a new diagnosis of nasopharyngeal carcinoma admitted between 2008 and 2014 to jorjani cancer center, tehran, iran. overall survival (os) of the patientsandtheir relation with demographicandclinico-pathological factors were analyzed. results: of 88 included patients, 56 were male and 32 were female with mean age of 46 years. with a median follow-up period of 31 months (range: 3 to 86 months), the overall survival of the whole patients and those without distant metastasis were 64% and 67% respectively. tumor stage and presence or absence of distant metastasis at presentation were the only parameters that significantly influenced the patients’ os. conclusions: our study provides some evidence on the outcome of iranian patients with nasopharyngeal cancer and factors influencing it.