Table 1.

Reported cases of anastrozole-induced interstitial lung disease

Authors	Reported year	Age (years old)	Drugs	Time to onset	Others
Tomitaa	2010	62	Anastrozole	4 months	DLST positive
		55	Anastrozole	9 months	DLST positive
Horiuchi [12]	2011	60	Anastrozole	12 days	DLST positive
Hirohashi [11]	2015	72	Anastrozole	15 months	Diedb
Fujiia	2017	56	Anastrozole	3 months	DLST positive
Fujimori [10]	2019	68	Anastrozole	11 months	Diedc

^aThe cases were just presented in the abstract forms of the proceedings in Japanese, and the abstracts in English were not available and could not be cited in the references. The abstracts presented in Japanese were as follows: Tomita S (2010) Allergy 59(3/4): 447, Fujii K (2017) Nihon Rinsho Geka Gakkai Zassi 78:688

^bThe other aromatase inhibitors (letrozole and exemestane) were administered after anastrozole withdrawal, resulting in the recurrence of interstitial lung disease after administration of each drug. She died of aspiration pneumonia

^cShe died of respiratory failure (interstitial pneumonia) possibly caused by anastrozole

DLST, drug-induced lymphocyte stimulation test