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. 2017 Dec 28;4(2):18–25. doi: 10.14338/IJPT-17-00015

Table 2.

Specific toxicity attributed to current proton treatment. N represents the number of distinct patients for which there is follow-up at each time point. The values in the table are the number of patients that had a radiation attributed side effect of grade 1 or higher at the given time (posttreatment, 3 months, 6 months, 12 months).

Toxicity
No. of patients with toxicity attributed to proton treatment
Posttreatment (n = 11)
3 month (n = 11)
6 month (n = 6)
12 month (n = 5)
Grade 1
Grade 2
Grade 3
Grade 1
Grade 2
Grade 3
Grade 1
Grade 2
Grade 3
Grade 1
Grade 2
Grade 3
Dermatitis radiation 1 3 7 4 1
Dry mouth 1 4 7 2 4 3
Dysgeusia 2 3 1 2 2
Fatigue 2 7 3 6 3 1
Mucosal infection 3
Mucositis oral 1 3 1 1
Oral pain 1 3 1 1 2 1 1
Pain of skin 3 3 1
Pharyngolaryngeal pain 4 1 1 1
Salivary duct inflammation 1 3 4 1 1 1
Trismus 1 1 4 1 1 1
Weight loss 3 2 2 3 2 1 1 1
Grand total 6 11 7 10 7 3 4 3 4 2 1