Qamar, Sahrish
King, Ann D. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5280-8349
Ai, Qi-Yong H.
Mo, Frankie Kwok Fai
Chen, Weitian
Poon, Darren M. C.
Tong, Macy
Ma, Brigette B.
Yeung, David Ka-Wai
Wang, Yi-Xiang
Yuan, Jing
Funding for this research was provided by:
Research Grants Council, University Grants Committee (CUHK141070/14 and SEG_CUHK02)
Article History
Received: 22 January 2020
Revised: 25 March 2020
Accepted: 26 May 2020
First Online: 25 June 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The scientific guarantor of this study is Ann D. King.
: The authors of this manuscript declare no financial or other conflicts of interest with the publication of this work.
: One of the authors has significant statistical expertise.
: Written informed consent was obtained from all patients in this study.
: Approval was obtained by the local institutional ethics committee.
: Of the 77 NPC patients included in the study, 53 were included in a previously reported tumor characterization study [] and 12 in an early intra-treatment study of short-term outcome prediction [], which differs from the current study which analyses the pre-treatment APTw imaging to predict outcome.
: • Retrospective• Diagnostic or prognostic study• Performed at one institution