Four Cases of Metastasectomy for Pulmonary Metastasis of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma / 대한내과학회지

ABSTRACT

Nasopharyngeal carcinoma is a rare cancer with a relatively poor prognosis because patients tend to be diagnosed in the advanced stage. Distant metastases have been recognized to be a major cause of treatment failure. However, because long-term survival has been reported in patients with lung metastasis alone, an aggressive approach to treatment for this group of patients should be considered. We report four cases of metastasectomy for pulmonary metastasis of nasopharyngeal carcinoma. The metastatic lesions were confined to the lung with or without regional lymph nodes. The patients underwent a pulmonary metastasectomy following adjuvant chemotherapy with or without radiotherapy, and all patients are now disease-free.