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To compare the clinical response, distant metastases, disease free survival and overall survival of chemo‐radiotherapy and adjuvant chemotherapy using combination chemotherapy comprising CisDDP and 5‐Fluorouracil (5‐FU), with radiotherapy in patients with locally advanced NPC.

This summary indicates the comparisons concerned, although omitting full details of the (complex) chemotherapy regimen under test, and makes it clear the patient are those with a particular form of nasopharyngeal cancer. The statement also identifies the several trial endpoints to be determined, which concern response (and the protocol includes details of how this is to be assessed), measures that require following the patients progress to establish when (if ever) distant metastases or recurrent disease appear, and survival.