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Toxicity scoring

• Toxicity an increasing survivorship issue

• Often under-reported and under-recorded even in

clinical trials

• US National Cancer Institute Common Terminology

Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) v4.0 –

dictionary for recording and grading side effects

• Aims for consistency in reporting toxicity between

centres and trials