Grading Soft Tissue Involvement in Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Using Network and Survival Analyses: A Two‐Center Retrospective Study

• Published in: Journal of magnetic resonance imaging Vol. 53; no. 6; pp. 1752 - 1763
• Main Authors: Dong, Annan, Huang, Wenjie, Ma, Huali, Cui, Chunyan, Zhou, Jian, Ruan, Guangying, Liang, Shaobo, Liu, Lizhi, Li, Haojiang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hoboken, USA John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.06.2021; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subjects: Chemotherapy; Field strength; Hazard assessment; Magnetic resonance imaging; Medical imaging; Medical prognosis; Muscles; Nasopharyngeal carcinoma; Network analysis; Nomograms; Population studies; Radiation therapy; Soft tissues; Statistical analysis; Statistical models; Statistical tests; Survival; survival analyses; Tensors; Throat cancer; tumor staging; survival analyses; magnetic resonance imaging; nasopharyngeal carcinoma; tumor staging

Background Soft tissue involvement (STI) indicates poor prognosis in nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). However, only a few studies have systematically assessed this extension using network analysis. Purpose To investigate the prognostic value of STI and to propose an improved STI grading system for NP...