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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Oct 15.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Cancer Res. 2009 Oct 13;15(20):6462–6471. doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-09-0905

Table 3.

Hematologic and non-hematologic toxicity.*

Hematologic

Median time to
nadir (range)
Median nadir value
(range)
Patients with grade
3 or 4 nadir
Patients with
grade 4 nadir

Absolute neutrophil
count (cells/mm3)
7 weeks (5–9) 1,000 (210–2,100) 29% 7%

Platelets (cells/mm3) 5 weeks (3–8) 51,000 (22,000–
129,000)
46% 0%

Hemoglobin (gm/dL) 7 weeks (4–13) 11.8 (7.4–13.5) 18% 0%

Non-hematologic adverse event

System Grade 1 Grade 2 Grade 3 Grade 4 No. Total^
%

Skin
   Green discoloration 11 12 0 0 23 79
   Pruritis 5 0 0 0 5 17

Body as whole
   Fatigue 18 4 0 0 22 76
   Hypoabluminema 9 6 0 0 15 52
   Infection 2 7 1 0 9 31
   Chills/rigors (during rituximab) 5 2 0 0 7 24
   Insomnia 6 1 0 0 7 24
   Headache 3 3 0 0 6 21
   Edema 1 4 0 0 5 17
   Pain (myalgia) 2 2 0 0 4 14

Gastrointestinal
   Constipation 11 3 0 0 14 48
   Nausea 11 1 0 0 12 41
   Diarrhea 4 0 0 0 4 14
   Vomiting 4 0 0 0 4 14

Hepatic
   Transaminases 11 1 0 0 12 41
   Alkaline phosphatase 10 0 0 0 10 34
   GGT elevation 8 1 0 0 9 31
   Bilirubin 7 0 0 0 7 24

Cardiovascular
   Hypertension 8 0 0 0 8 28
   Tachycardia 6 0 0 0 6 21

Electrolytes
   Hyponatremia 7 0 0 0 7 24
   Hypophosphatemia 3 3 0 0 6 21
   Hypokalemia 4 0 1 0 6 21
   Hypocalcemia 5 0 0 0 5 17
   Bicarbonate 4 0 0 0 4 14
   Hypomagnesemia 4 0 0 0 4 14

Renal
   Creatinine 4 0 0 0 4 14
*

The incidence included all grade 3 or 4 adverse events and those grade 1 and 2 that occurred in > 10%10% of patients relationship during the treatment period which were classified as probably or possibly related to study drug or relationship unknown.

^

Percent of total patients who received MGd/90Y ibritumomab tiuxetan (n=29).