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Table 2 Acute skin toxicity rates

From: Hypericum perforatum and neem oil for the management of acute skin toxicity in head and neck cancer patients undergoing radiation or chemo-radiation: a single-arm prospective observational study

  

Maximum detected

Treatment end

Acute skin toxicity

Grade

Patients (%)

Patients (%)

No change over baseline

0

0 (0)

1 (3.5)

Follicular, faint or dull erythema/epilation/dry desquamation/decreased sweating

1

2 (7)

9 (32)

Tender or bright erythema, patchy moist desquamation/moderate edema

2

19 (68)

17 (61)

Confluent, moist desquamation other than skin folds, pitting edema

3

7 (25)

1 (3.5)

Ulceration, hemorrage, necrosis

4

0

0 (0)