Commentary on "Elective upper-neck versus whole-neck irradiation of the uninvolved neck in patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma: an open-label, non-inferiority, multicentre, randomised phase 3 trial".

Chin Clin Oncol

Division of Radiation Oncology, National Cancer Centre Singapore, Singapore; Oncology Academic Clinical Program, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore.

Published: October 2022

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