Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is a type of head and neck cancer. The last three decades of research in head and neck radiation oncology have largely focused on improvements in survival, which have mostly come at the cost of long term toxicity for surviving patients. This is an observational study that is being done to learn about the long-term symptoms and side effects that survivors of nasopharyngeal cancer may have following radiation treatment. This study will include assessment of patient report outcomes, physician-graded adverse events, neurocognitive assessment and endocrine and hearing testing
Age range
18 Years
Sex
ALL
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Evaluation of late toxicities( will be measured using CTCAE v 4.0 criteria)
Timeframe: 1 Year
Serum Biochemical Tests for Endocrine Function (fT4, TSH)
Timeframe: 1 Year
Quality of Life Questionnaires: Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy (FACT-G, FACT-HN)
Timeframe: 1 Year
Quality of Life Questionnaires: Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy-Fatigue (FACT-Fatigue)
Timeframe: 1 Years
Quality of Life Questionnaires: Utilities Assessment (EuroQoL - EQ-5D)
Timeframe: 1 YEAR
Quality of Life Questionnaires: Symptom Burden of Treatment (MD Anderson Symptom Inventory-Head Neck)
Timeframe: 1 YEAR
Quality of Life Questionnaires: Assessment of Depression and Anxiety (Hospital and Anxiety Depression Score)
Timeframe: 1 YEAR
Assessment of Frontal Lobe Behavior (Frontal Systems Behaviour Scale)
Timeframe: 1 YEAR
Cognitive Assessment (Montreal Cognitive Assessment - MoCA)
Timeframe: 1 YEAR