Table 2.
Toxicities during the course of neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy.
| Adverse events | Grade 1 |
Grade 2 |
Grade 3 |
Grade 4 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | |
| Diarrhoea | 5 | 9.6 | 4 | 7.7 | 12 | 23.1 | 0 | 0 |
| Anaemia | 20 | 38.5 | 9 | 17.3 | 1 | 1.9 | 1 | 1.9 |
| Leucopenia | 8 | 15.4 | 26 | 50 | 6 | 11.5 | 5 | 9.6 |
| Neutropenia | 18 | 34.6 | 8 | 15.4 | 5 | 9.6 | 5 | 9.6 |
| Thrombocytopenia | 6 | 11.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1.9 | 0 | 0 |
| Abdominal cramping | 7 | 13.5 | 5 | 9.6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Proctitis | 5 | 9.6 | 10 | 19.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Fatigue or asthenia | 12 | 23.1 | 13 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Anorexia | 14 | 26.9 | 9 | 17.3 | 1 | 1.9 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 12 | 23.1 | 18 | 34.6 | 15 | 28.8 | 5 | 9.6 |