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Table 2 Toxicity after treatment

From: Clinical-dosimetric analysis of measures of dysphagia including gastrostomy-tube dependence among head and neck cancer patients treated definitively by intensity-modulated radiotherapy with concurrent chemotherapy

 

3 month (%)

6 month (%)

GT dependence

87%

44%

Self-reported dysphagia grade ≥ 3

33%

21%

Mucositis

grade ≥ 3

23%

5%

Xerostomia grade ≥ 2

43%

36%

  1. Abbreviation: GT = gastrostomy tube