Table 3.
Number of Patients With Late Grade 3 or 4 Toxicity by Type and Treatment Arm*
| Type | RT + FU/MMC |
RT + FU/CDDP |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | Grade 4 | Grade 3 | Grade 4 | |
| Skin | 6 | 6 | 3 | 5 |
| Small/large intestine | 5 | 5 | 7 | 1 |
| Subcutaneous tissue | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
| Other | 20 | 3 | 14 | 7 |
Abbreviations: RT + FU/CDDP, radiation therapy plus fluorouracil/cisplatin; RT + FU/MMC, RT plus fluorouracil/mitomycin.
*
Toxicities were graded with Radiation Therapy Oncology Group/European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer late radiation morbidity scoring schema.