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. 2025 Oct 31;15:38170. doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-22083-2

Table 1.

Clinical characteristics of reports with sonidegib and vismodegib from the FAERS database (Q1 2012 to Q3 2024).

characteristics sonidegib vismodegib
total 1020(100%) 7650(100%)
age_yr 73.00(63.00,83.00) 72.00(61.00,83.00)
age_yrQ
<18 5(0.49%) 24(0.31%)
18 ~ 65 148(14.51%) 1090(14.25%)
>=65 385(37.75%) 2284(29.86%)
unknow 482(47.25%) 4252(55.58%)
Indications
basal cell carcinoma 606(58.83%) 4895(63.87%)
small cell lung cancer 34(0.44%)
squamous cell carcinoma of skin 31(0.40%)
others 141(13.69%) 548(7.15%)
basal cell naevus syndrome 89(1.16%)
product used for unknown indication 240(23.30%) 1403(18.31%)
congenital anomaly 42(0.55%)
unknown 43(4.17%) 43(0.56%)
malignant melanoma 30(0.39%)
medulloblastoma 45(0.59%)
neoplasm malignant 101(1.32%)
skin cancer 403(5.26%)
Reporter (Top 5)
Consumer 440(43.14%) 3941(51.52%)
Pharmacist 220(21.57%) 731(9.56%)
Physician 207(20.29%) 2261(29.56%)
unknown 91(8.92%) 144(1.88%)
Other health-professional 62(6.08%) 570(7.45%)
Outcomes (Top 5)
other serious 316(51.89%) 1444(42.81%)
hospitalization 188(30.87%) 929(27.54%)
death 78(12.81%) 843(24.99%)
disability 17(2.79%) 70(2.08%)
life threatening 9(1.48%) 85(2.52%)
Reported countries (Top 5)
United States 714(70.00%) 6882(89.96%)
other 136(13.33%) 354(4.63%)
Germany 92(9.02%) 77(1.01%)
France 159(2.08%)
Italy 78(7.65%) 56(0.73%)
Canada 71(0.93%)
route
oral 610(59.80%) 5584(72.99%)
other 410(40.20%) 2066(27.01%)
sex
female 343(33.63%) 2821(36.88%)
male 557(54.61%) 4316(56.42%)
unknown 120(11.76%) 513(6.71%)
weight 70.31(60.00,85.00) 73.48(62.10,86.26)
Year
2012 69(0.90%)
2013 187(2.44%)
2014 245(3.20%)
2015 8(0.78%) 402(5.25%)
2016 22(2.16%) 591(7.73%)
2017 25(2.45%) 1401(18.31%)
2018 69(6.76%) 794(10.38%)
2019 77(7.55%) 745(9.74%)
2020 69(6.76%) 692(9.05%)
2021 71(6.96%) 635(8.30%)
2022 109(10.69%) 694(9.07%)
2023 121(11.86%) 667(8.72%)
2024 449(44.02%) 528(6.90%)