Fig. 2

Stacked percentage bar charts for AEs during PCT and PCRT. AEs, adverse events; ALT, alanine transaminase; AST, aspartate transaminase; CTCAE, Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events; PCRT, preoperative chemoradiotherapy; PCT, preoperative chemotherapy; Scr serum creatinine. Correlation analysis was performed by Spearman’s correlation test. The charts from a-i refer to the stacked percentage for anemia, leukopenia, neutropenia, febrile neutropenia, lymphocytopenia, thrombocytopenia, increased AST/ALT, increased Scr, and total AEs respectively