Table 1.

Incidence of common adverse effects (%) in patients receiving imatinib 400 mg/day for GIST, among 470 patients in a randomised clinical trial (from Verweij et al [6]).

Adverse effect	Grades 1/2	Grades 3/4
Anaemia	82	7
Oedema	69	3
Fatigue	62	6
Pleuritic pain	47	4
Nausea	46	2.5
Diarrhea	46	1.7
Cramps	37	1.3
Granulocytopenia	34	7
Rash	24	2.3
Myalgia	24	0.2
Arthralgia	13	0