The Clinicopathology Treatment Pattern And Survival Of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Patients At Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital Oncology Department Addis Ababa Ethiopia.
Background: Nasopharyngeal carcinoma is one of the most common head and neck cancersrnworldwide and its incidence is reported to be increasing both in developed and developingrncountries. There is, however, lack of published data on nasopharyngeal carcinoma in Ethiopia. rnObjective: To assess the clinicopathology, treatment patterns and median survival of patientsrndiagnosed with nasopharyngeal carcinoma at Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital (TASH),rnOncology Department, Ethiopia rnMethodology: A retrospective cohort study design of histopathologic proven nasopharyngealrncarcinoma patients seen at the Oncology Department of TASH from September 11, 2014 andrnSeptember 10, 2017 and followed for vital status up until October 2020. Descriptive statisticsrn(mean, SD, frequency, percentage) were calculated and chi-square tests were performed usingrnSPSS version 26, with P