External Beam Therapy in a Four-Field Box Technique with Paclitaxel versus a Two-Field Technique with Cisplatin in Locally Advanced Carcinoma Cervix: A Phase II Monocentric Trial

Table 6

No. of days required to complete treatment.

Total number of days to complete the treatment	Arm I	Arm II
Mean	71.44	66.16
Median	69	64
Range	61–87	55–84
SD	7.74	7.88

Assuming that the variance was different in each group, a t-test was used. The value of t was calculated to be 1.99 and with a degree of freedom of 32.2 (which was calculated assuming that the variance in both groups is not the same and unknown); the P value <0.025, which is statistically significant. This indicates that time taken for overall treatment in arm II is significantly less than that of arm I.