Expert consensus on the treatment of metastasis nasopharyngeal carcinoma

As the application of intensity modulated-radiotherapy and improvement of local control about nasopharyngeal carcinoma, metastases have been an urgent problem needed to be solved. Due to the great heterogeneities of metastasis NPC, the treatment strategies and prognoses are very different. At present, no treatment guideline has been achieved in this field. This consensus tries to give some directions on the treatment of metastasis NPC.We discuss and summarize treatment models for the metastases at first diagnosis, after radical treatment and after failure of platinum-based chemotherapy respectively by reviewing relevant literatures and clinical trials. For some clinically significant problems without enough supports of clinical data, we draft out it according clinical experiences of experts, in order to reach a consensus about the best treatment strategies for metastasis nasopharyngeal carcinoma. Key words: Neoplasms metastasis, nasopharyngeal/therapy; Consensus