Publications by authors named "Tian-Yun Lin"
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- * Patients on the weekly regimen experienced significantly fewer severe acute toxicities, less need for emergency interventions, and had better tumor response rates compared to those on the triweekly regimen.
- * The findings suggest that a weekly induction chemotherapy schedule is not only safer but also maintains effective tumor response and survival rates.
Objective: We investigated the effects of different treatment modalities and clinical stage for hypopharyngeal carcinoma (HPC) patients.
Methods: Between February 2004 and December 2012, 167 HPC patients were reviewed. We calculated overall survival (OS), progression-free survival (PFS), local failure-free survival (LFFS), regional failure-free survival (RFFS), and distant metastasis failure-free survival (DMFFS) using the Kaplan-Meier method and compared various survival outcomes between definitive chemoradiotherapy (CRT) and surgery-based therapy (SBT).
Background: We investigated the survival impact and toxicity of maintenance metronomic chemotherapy in patients with metastatic/recurrent nasopharyngeal carcinoma (met/rec NPC).
Methods: Ninety-eight patients with met/rec NPC were first salvaged by IV cisplatin-based chemotherapy and showed nonprogression disease; then maintenance metronomic chemotherapy for at least 12 months was recommended. We analyzed the treatment outcome between patients who received (n = 51) and did not receive (n = 47) maintenance chemotherapy.
Objectives: We investigated the survival impacts of various nodal characteristics and T-classification on nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) patients with the 8th AJCC/UICC staging criteria N3.
Materials And Methods: Pretreatment MRIs from 110 staged N3 NPC patients were reviewed. There were 23 T1, 25 T2, 32 T3, and 30 T4, respectively.
Background: We investigated treatment results, the effects of different treatment modality, and pretreatment Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) viral load for stage III nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) patients.
Methods: The initial definitive treatment for 356 stage III NPC patients consisted of concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CCRT) or induction chemotherapy plus radiotherapy (IndCT-RT). The pretreatment EBV DNA level separated patients into a high (n = 106) or low (n = 250) viral load (≥ or < 1000 copies/mL) subgroup.
Background: The purpose of this study was to compare the long-term survivals between altered fractionated and conventional fractionated radiotherapy with the same concurrent chemoradiotherapy (concurrent CRT) for patients with advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC).
Methods: We retrospectively reviewed 203 patients with NPC who received radiotherapy (RT) by either a conventional fractionated (70-74 Gy/35-37 fractions/7-8 weeks) or altered fractionated (72-75 Gy/45 fractions/6 weeks) schedule plus the same concurrent CRT.
Results: The patient characteristics between conventional fractionated and altered fractionated groups showed similar distribution.
Purpose: To investigate the long-term clinical outcome of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) patients with persistently detectable plasma EBV (pEBV) DNA after curative radiotherapy (RT).
Results: The post-RT pEBV DNA levels were very lower copy number (median 21, interquartile range 8-206 copies/ml). After long-term follow-up, the relapse rate was 64.
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View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To probe into the effective acupuncture technique for deviation of the mouth in intractable facial palsy.
Methods: One hundred and one cases of intractable facial palsy were randomly divided into an observation group (48 cases) and a control group (53 cases). Cuanzhu (BL 2), Sibai (ST 2), Jiache (ST 6) and Qianzheng (Extra) on the affected side were punctured in two groups.