Table 2.
Frequency (and % of patients in the respective treatment group) of acute pulmonary and esophageal toxicity in patients according to treatment
| Pulmonary toxicity | Esophageal toxicity | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Treatment |
Grade 0 |
Grade 1 |
Grade 2 |
Grade 0 |
Grade 1 |
Grade 2 |
| RT$ |
0 (0) |
4 (57) |
3 (43) |
2 (29) |
3 (43) |
2 (29) |
| CHT-RT# |
4 (10) |
26 (62) |
10 (24) |
8 (19) |
24 (57) |
9 (21) |
| RCHT | 9 (24) | 21 (57) | 7 (19) | 2 (5) | 16 (43)* | 19 (51)* |
$RT = radiotherapy alone; #CHT-RT = sequential chemotherapy and radiotherapy; ¶RCHT = concurrent chemoradiotherapy. * p = 0.013; chi-square test of sequential versus concurrent chemoradiotherapy. For the sequential chemotherapy and radiotherapy group, numbers on acute pulmonary and esophageal toxicity are missing for 2 patients and 1 patient, respectively.