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Table 1 Patient characteristics

From: Cytokines levels, Severity of acute mucositis and the need of PEG tube installation during chemo-radiation for head and neck cancer - a prospective pilot study

Parameter

No. of patients

%

Site of Disease

  

Nasopharynx

5

33.3

Oropharynx

1

6.7

Hypopharynx

1

6.7

Tongue

1

6.7

Supraglottic larynx

4

26.6

Tonsil

2

13.3

Cervical lymph nodes of unknown primary

1

6.7

Histology

  

Undifferentiated nasopharyngeal carcinoma

2

13.3

Squamous cell carcinoma

13

86.7

Stage

  

III

2

13.3

IVa

9

60

IVb

2

13.3

IVc

1

6.7

Loco-regionally advanced, NOS

1

6.7