The Impact of Baseline Serum C-Reactive Protein and C-Reactive Protein Kinetics on the Prognosis of Metastatic Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Patients Treated with Palliative Chemotherapy

• Wei-Xiong Xia ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Wei-Xiong Xia, Yan-Fang Ye

  Affiliations Department of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma, Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, P. R. China, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in Southern China, Guangzhou, P. R. China

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• Yan-Fang Ye ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Wei-Xiong Xia, Yan-Fang Ye

  Affiliations Department of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma, Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, P. R. China, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in Southern China, Guangzhou, P. R. China, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, P. R. China

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• Xing Lu,

  Affiliations Department of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma, Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, P. R. China, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in Southern China, Guangzhou, P. R. China

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• Lin Wang,

  Affiliations Department of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma, Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, P. R. China, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in Southern China, Guangzhou, P. R. China

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• Liang-Ru Ke,

  Affiliations Department of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma, Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, P. R. China, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in Southern China, Guangzhou, P. R. China

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• Hai-Bo Zhang,

  Affiliations Department of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma, Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, P. R. China, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in Southern China, Guangzhou, P. R. China

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• Mark D. Roycik,

  Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Institute of Molecular Biophysics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America

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• Jing Yang,

  Affiliations Department of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma, Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, P. R. China, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in Southern China, Guangzhou, P. R. China

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• Jun-Li Shi,

  Affiliations Department of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma, Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, P. R. China, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in Southern China, Guangzhou, P. R. China

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• Ka-Jia Cao,

  Affiliations Department of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma, Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, P. R. China, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in Southern China, Guangzhou, P. R. China

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• Xiang Guo ,

  * E-mail: xiangyq@sysucc.org.cn (YQX); guoxiang@sysucc.org.cn (XG)

  Affiliations Department of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma, Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, P. R. China, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in Southern China, Guangzhou, P. R. China

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• Yan-Qun Xiang

  * E-mail: xiangyq@sysucc.org.cn (YQX); guoxiang@sysucc.org.cn (XG)

  Affiliations Department of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma, Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, P. R. China, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in Southern China, Guangzhou, P. R. China

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