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

Table 6. Grade 3 and 4 toxicities reported over first 12 weeks of treatment.

  Arms A+C (no cetuximab)
Arm B (cetuximab)
Significance*
  OxMdG XELOX OxMdG XELOX ±Cap. ±Cet.
N 203 333 102 166    
             
  N (%) N (%) N (%) N (%)    
Any grade 3 or 4 72 (35) 118 (36) 64 (63) 95 (58)   P<0.001
Neutropaenia 35 (17) 5 (2) 27 (26) 1 (1) P<0.001  
Neutropaenic sepsis/febrile neutropaenia 9 (4) 3 (1) 5 (5) 0 (0) P<0.001  
Nausea or vomiting 6 (3) 23 (7) 7 (7) 23 (14) P<0.05 P<0.05
Diarrhoea 13 (6) 50 (15) 13 (13) 42 (25) P<0.001 P<0.05
Skin rash 0 (0) 2 (1) 12 (12) 16 (10)   P<0.001
Hypersensitivity
 Any 0 (0) 1 (<1) 0 (0) 2 (1)    
 Oxaliplatin 0 (0) 1 (<1) 0 (0) 0 (0)    
 Cetuximab   0 (0) 1 (1)    
 Not specified 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 1 (1)    
Lethargy 15 (7) 27 (8) 21 (21) 28 (17)   P<0.001
Hand—foot syndrome 1 (<1) 7 (2) 4 (4) 7 (4)    
Peripheral neuropathy 4 (2) 14 (4) 0 (0) 10 (6) P<0.05  
Hypomagnesaemia 0 (0) 1 (<1) 0 (0) 0 (0)    

*Fisher's exact test.

‘Cap.’=presence vs absence of capecitabine; that is, XELOX vs OxMdG.

‘Cet.’=presence vs absence of cetuximab; that is, arm B vs arms A and C.