Table 2.
Drug-related adverse events according to CTCAE v.3.0
| CTCAE grade | L19IL2/DTIC Arm 1 (n = 22) | L19IL2/DTIC Arm 2 (n = 22) | DTIC Arm 3 (n = 23) | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G1 | G2 | G3 | G4 | G1 | G2 | G3 | G4 | G1 | G2 | G3 | G4 | |
| ALT increaseda | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Anorexiaa | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Arthralgia | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| AST increaseda | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Chills | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Diarrhea | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Fatigue | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GGT increaseda | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Nausea | 11 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Neutropenia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Edema peripheralb | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Pyrexia | 14 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Rashb | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Thrombocytopeniaa | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Vomiting | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
aIncidence > 15% in at least one arm of the randomized part of the study
bIncidence was also > 15% in the previously published phase IIa + IIb step 1 parts of the study [26]