Clinical Study of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Treated by Helical Tomotherapy in China: 5-Year Outcomes

Table 5

Distributions of failure cases.

Patterns of failure	Numbers of patients		Total (𝑛, %)
	Alive	Died
Local recurrence	2	6	8 (25.8)
Nodal recurrence	1	2	3 (9.7)
Distant metastasis	3	10	13 (41.9)
Pharyngeal bleeding	0	5	5 (16.1)
Others	0	2	2 (6.5)
Total (𝑛, %)	6 (19.4)	25 (80.6)	31 (100)