Acute small-bowel toxicity during neoadjuvant combined radiochemotherapy in locally advanced rectal cancer: determination of optimal dose-volume cut-off value predicting grade 2–3 diarrhoea

Table 1 Patient and tumour characteristics

Characteristics	Number (n)
Patients	45
Age, years
Median	60
Range	41-80
Gender
Male	37
Female	8
T category
T1	0
T2	6
T3	36
T4	3
N category
uN0	9
uN1	35
uN2	0
uNx	1
Metastases
No	43
Liver	2
Surgery
Anterior resection	36
Abdominoperineal resection	9

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