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Metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma

FDG-PET: 20% distant metastases

ORR with platinum-based chemotherapy: 40-70%

Considered incurable but occasional long-term survivors have been described

In the largest series of long-term survivors, they were treated with CT followed by consolidation RT to the bone metastases

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