Table 5. Presence of mouth dryness, oral mucositis and nausea at each time point and association between each toxicity and change in taste function.

	T0: Pre-chemo(baseline)	T1: Earlycycle 3	T2: Midcycle 3	T3: Latecycle 3	T4: Earlyfinal cycle	T5∶2 monthspost-chemo
Mouth dryness
Grade 0	92.3	55.6	63.8	81.3	63.8	87.8
Grade 1	7.7	40.0	29.8	16.7	29.8	12.2
Grade 2	0.0	4.4	6.4	2.1	6.4	0.0
Correlation with change in taste function		−0.052	−0.019	−0.078	0.059	0.043
p value		0.70	0.88	0.55	0.65	0.76
Oral mucositis
Grade 0	96.2	88.9	85.1	87.5	83.0	93.9
Grade 1	3.8	6.7	10.6	10.4	10.6	6.1
Grade 2		4.4	2.1	2.1	4.3
Grade 3			2.1		2.1
Correlation with change in taste function		−0.018	0.072	−0.12	−0.063	−0.029
p value		0.89	0.59	0.35	0.63	0.83
Nausea
Grade 0	96.2	57.8	73.9	89.4	76.6	91.8
Grade 1	1.9	13.3	10.9	6.4	6.4	4.1
Grade 2	1.9	28.9	15.2	4.3	17.0	4.1
Correlation with change in taste function		0.003	−0.11	−0.091	−0.096	−0.10
p value		0.98	0.40	0.49	0.46	0.46

Notes. Data on presence of mouth dryness, oral mucositis and nausea are percentages.