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Table 5 Acute toxicity

From: Prospective results of concurrent radiation therapy and weekly paclitaxel as salvage therapy for unresectable locoregionally recurrent breast cancer

Toxicity

Grade 1 No. (%)

Grade 2 No. (%)

Grade 3 No. (%)

Grade 4 No. (%)

Hematological

 Leukocytopenia

10 (19.6)

23 (45.1)

12 (23.5)

0 (0)

 Thrombocytopenia

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

Non-hematological

 Radiodermatitis

18 (35.3)

23 (45.1)

10 (19.6)

0 (0)

 Pneumonitis

-a

1 (2.0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

 Mucositis with dysphagia

9 (17.6)

7 (13.7)

0 (0)

0 (0)

 Vomiting

1 (2.0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

Cardiac

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

  1. aWe did not assess asymptomatic grade 1 radiation pneumonitis because of no conventional chest X-ray or CT film taken in the time of evaluating acute toxicity