Table 2.

Patient-reported symptoms from the skin with Mepitel film opposed to standard care 14 days after RT. The P-value measures whether the distributions for the Mepitel and standard of care area are equal. Number of evaluable pairs are indicated after symptom name.

	Mepitel film Numbers of reported skin symptoms				Standard care Numbers of reported skin symptoms
	Not at all	A little	Quite a bit	Very much	Not at all	A little	Quite a bit	Very much	P-value*
Tenderness, discomfort or pain (n = 78)	39	32	7	0	18	40	16	4	<0.001
Itching (n = 77)	36	30	9	2	20	41	11	5	0.005
Burning sensation (n = 78)	52	18	7	1	37	28	10	3	0.005
Edema (n = 78)	55	20	3	0	45	27	6	0	0.017
Sensitive skin (n = 78)	44	28	5	1	27	36	11	4	<0.001
Flaky skin (n = 77)	54	17	6	0	49	17	9	2	0.066
Effect on work/daily activities (n = 77)	66	7	4	0	62	11	4	0	0.253

^*P-values are calculated using Wilcoxon signed-rank test (paired analyses).