Table 1

Patient and treatment characteristics

Patient characteristicsNo/mean (range)
Age (year)47.3 (9–83)
Tumour volume (mL)22.5 (2.4–232.0)
Lymph nodes size (cm)1.7 (0.8–8.9)
Gender (male/female)566/226
Age (<50 years/≥50 years)446/346
LDH (≤174 u/L/>174 u/L)567/225
T stage (T1/T2/T3/T4)87/277/133/295
N stage (N0/N1/N2/N3a/N3b)105/186/347/64/90
Clinical stage (Ⅰ/Ⅱ/Ⅲ/Ⅳa/Ⅳb)22/124/246/246/154
WHO histology (Ⅰ/Ⅱ/Ⅲ)3/210/579
Diagnostic imaging technique
 MRI792
Chemotherapy
 RT/CCRT/IC+CCRT/IC+RT/CCRT+
 AC/RT+AC/IC+CCRT+AC/IC+RT+AC
48/243/365/51/21/8/55/1
CNN (yes/no)401/391
  • AC, adjuvant chemotherapy; CCRT, concurrent chemo-radiotherapy; CNN, cervical nodal necrosis; IC, induction chemotherapy; LDH, lactic dehydrogenase; MRI, magnetic resonance imaging; RT, radiotherapy.