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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jan 15.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer. 2010 Jan 15;116(2):355–361. doi: 10.1002/cncr.24769

TABLE 4.

TREATMENT ADVERSE EFFECTS BY RACE

Adverse Effect White
%
(n=982)
Black
%
(n=169)
p-value
Selected Grade 3 or 4
 Leukopenia 61.6 55.6 0.14
 Thrombocytopenia 10.3 9.5 0.75
 Neutropenia 67.9 63.9 0.30
 Anemia 14.2 20.1 0.05
 Gastrointestinal 16.7 10.1 0.03
 Genitourinary 1.4 4.7 0.009
 Neurologic 3.0 3.6 0.68
 Cardiovascular 5.3 4.1 0.53
Any Grade 3 or 4 82.1 82.3 0.96

Pearson chi-square or Fisher exact test used to compare the group-difference.