Computer Algorithms for Medicine

Risk stratification of long-term distant metastasis in nasopharyngeal carcinoma: a retrospective study of 7,045 patients diagnosed from 2012 to 2022

Distant metastasis (DM) remains the leading cause of treatment failure in nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC), severely compromising long-term survival. Despite advances in screening and multimodal therapies, a considerable proportion of patients still develop DM after standard treatm...