Participant flow and recruitment
GROUP B
The patients participating in this study were recruited between October 2020 and March 2022; the last follow-up consultation was conducted 3 months later, in June 2022. Thirty-nine patients were recruited. Of these, seven patients dropped out during the treatment because of cancer recurrence and the need for chemotherapy (four from Group A and three from Group B). The results of the remaining 32 patients were used for statistical analysis. Further details regarding the study course are shown in Fig. 