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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Dec 11.
Published in final edited form as: N Engl J Med. 2023 Mar 27;388(23):2159–2170. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa2302312

Table 3.

Adverse Events of Interest.*


Adverse Event
dMMR Cohort
(N = 215)
pMMR Cohort
(N = 550)
Pembrolizumab
(N = 109)
Placebo
(N = 106)
Pembrolizumab
(N = 276)
Placebo
(N = 274)
Any Grade Grade ≥3 Any Grade Grade ≥3 Any Grade Grade ≥3 Any Grade Grade ≥3
number of patients (percentage
Any event 42 (38.5) 9 (8.3) 28 (26.4) 6 (5.7) 92 (33.3) 10 (3.6) 54 (19.7) 7 (2.6)
 Infusion reaction 16 (14.7) 4 (3.7) 16 (15.1) 3 (2.8) 41 (14.9) 4 (1.4) 35 (12.8) 5 (1.8)
 Hypothyroidism 14 (12.8) 0 10 (9.4) 0 37 (13.4) 0 7 (2.6) 0
 Hyperthyroidism 10 (9.2) 0 1 (0.9) 0 16 (5.8) 0 10 (3.6) 0
 Colitis 7 (6.4) 0 0 0 4 (1.4) 0 4 (1.5) 1 (0.4)
 Pneumonitis 3 (2.8) 2 (1.8) 2 (1.9) 1 (0.9) 2 (0.7) 0 1 (0.4) 0
 Glucose intolerance 2 (1.8) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
 Acute kidney injury 2 (1.8) 2 (1.8) 2 (1.9) 2 (1.9) 5 (1.8) 5 (1.8) 1 (0.4) 1 (0.4)
 Hepatic failure 1 (0.9) 1 (0.9) 0 0 0 0 0 0
 Myositis 1 (0.9) 0 1 (0.9) 0 1 (0.4) 0 0 0
 Hypophysitis 0 0 0 0 2 (0.7) 2 (0.7) 0 0
 Pancreatitis 0 0 0 0 1 (0.4) 0 0 0
 Adrenal insufficiency 0 0 0 0 4 (1.4) 0 1 (0.4) 0
*

The events of interest are those with a possible immune-related cause and are considered regardless of attribution by the investigator. Some patients may have had more than one adverse event of interest. The events are listed in descending order of frequency in the pembrolizumab group in the dMMR cohort.