Skip to main content

Table 4 Grade 3–4 adverse events

From: Efficacy of concurrent chemoradiotherapy alone for loco-regionally advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma: long-term follow-up analysis

Acute adverse events

Late adverse events

Events

Grade 3

Grade 4

Events

Grade 3

Grade 4

Hematologic

  

Temporal lobe injury

25 (5%)

0

Anaemia

9 (2%)

0

Cranial neuropathy

18 (4%)

0

Thrombocytopaenia

0

0

Peripheral neuropathy

9 (2%)

0

Neutropenia

62 (14%)

5 (1%)

Eye damage

0

0

Leukopenia

98 (21%)

1 (< 1%)

Ear (deafness/otitis)

35 (8%)

4 (1%)

Nonhematologic

  

Bone necrosis

0

0

Dermatitis

16 (4%)

0

soft tissue damage

11 (2%)

0

Mucositis

78 (17%)

7 (2%)

Trismus

6 (1%)

0

Dysphagia

19 (4%)

0

Dry mouth

16 (4%)

0

Nausea

23 (5%)

0

   

Vomiting

40 (8%)

0

   

Dry mouth

9 (2%)

0

  Â