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. 2009 Jan 22;100(2):251–258. doi: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6604877

Table 2. Chemotherapy dose reductions over the first 12 weeks of treatment broken down by regimen and therapeutic agent, on line only.

  Arms A+C (no cetuximab)
Arm B (cetuximab)
 
  OxMdG XELOX OxMdG XELOX Total
Total N 203 333 102 166 804
           
Trial drug
 5FU 48   31   79
 % of patients with 5FU dose reduction (24%)   (30%)   (26%a)
 Capecitabine   65   60 125
 % of patients with capecitabine dose reduction   (20%)   (36%) (25%a)
 Oxaliplatin 28 50 16 54 148
 % of patients with oxaliplatin dose reduction (14%) (15%) (16%) (33%) (18%)
 Cetuximab     24 33 57
 % of patients with cetuximab dose reduction     (24%) (20%) (21%a)
 Any trial drug 57 73 45 81 256
 % of patients with any trial drug dose reduction (28%) (22%) (44%) (49%) (32%)

5FU=5-fluorouracil.

On line only.

a

Denominator is valid subjects only.