Treatment compliance
esophagitis
ESOPHAGITIS
Of the 63 patients, 61 (96.8%) patients completed the full‐dose radiotherapy, and two patients failed to complete radiotherapy due to persisted grade of ≥2 esophagitis. Radiotherapy interruption occurred in 13 patients due to grade ≥3 esophagitis (Of the 63 patients in the PEG group, 50 patients (79.4%) had gastrostomy feeding tube removal at the first or second follow‐up, and 5 patients (7.94%) retained their tube in the long term. The median duration of gastrostomy tube retention was 4.0 months (range, 2.9–33.73 months).