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Section Type: RESULTS

Text: Patients in the capecitabine group had more hand-foot skin reactions (62 [31 %] any grade, four [2 %] grade 3-4 vs three [2 %] any grade, no grade 3-4), fatigue (55 [28 %] any grade, no grade 3-4 vs 29 [15 %], two [1 %] grade 3-4), and proctitis (31 [16 %] any grade, one [< 1 %] grade 3-4 vs ten [5 %], one [< 1 %] grade 3-4) than did those in the fluorouracil group, whereas leucopenia was more frequent with fluorouracil than with capecitabine (68 [35 %] any grade, 16 [8 %] grade 3-4 vs 50 [25 %] any grade, three [2 %] grade 3-4).