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Head and Neck Cancer

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Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is a carcinoma arising from the nasopharyngeal mucosa and notorious for its highly malignant behavior, often presenting with intensive locoregional infiltration, regional lymph node metastasis, and distant metastasis. Radiotherapy is the most important treatment modality for NPC. As a sensitive imaging modality, 18F-FDG PET/CT plays an important role in diagnosing and staging of NPC, which is useful for making an individualized treatment for NPC patient.

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Wu, H., Song, S. (2019). Head and Neck Cancer. In: Huang, G. (eds) Nuclear Medicine in Oncology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-7458-6_8

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