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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Sep 22.
Published in final edited form as: Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2012 May 16;5:CD007583. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD007583.pub3
Adverse events
Grades of toxicity relating to chemotherapy, radiotherapy or a combination of both will be extracted and grouped as:
  • haematological (leukopenia, anaemia, thrombocytopenia, neutropenia, haemorrhage)

  • gastrointestinal (nausea, vomiting, anorexia, diarrhoea, proctitis, bowel obstruction)

  • genitourinary (sexual dysfunction, urinary frequency, haematuria, incontinence, renal failure)

  • skin (stomatitis, mucositis, desquamation, alopecia, allergy)

  • lymphoedema

  • infection

  • neurological (peripheral and central)

  • pulmonary (dyspnoea)

  • general (weakness, fatigue, lethargy, malaise)


List below the specific types and numbers of adverse events reported
Number
Intervention group Comparison group Location of text (page/column/paragraph)
Other: Give description and number of any other adverse events reported
List below the specific types and numbers of adverse events reported
Does the number of adverse events reported above refer to the number of women who experienced adverse events or to the number of episodes of adverse events? Number of women/number of episodes