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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Neurooncol. 2009 Jun 28;96(2):219–230. doi: 10.1007/s11060-009-9950-0

Table 2.

Number of patients with grade ≥2 adverse events

Toxicity grade 2 3 4



Stratum1 A B A B A B
Number of patients 24 8 24 8 24 8
Anemia 1 (4) 0 0 0 0 0
Anorexia 2 (8) 1 (13) 0 0 0 0
Creatinine elevation 0 0 0 1 (13) 0 0
Diarrhea 5 (21) 5 (63) 0 0 0 0
Fatigue 3 (9) 4 (50) 2 (8) 0 0 0
Hypercholesterolemia 4 (17) 0 0 0 0 0
Hypertriglyceridemia 3 (13) 0 1 (4) 0 0 0
Hypoalbuminemia 3 (13) 0 0 0 0 0
Hypocalcemia 1 (4) 0 0 0 0 0
Hypokalemia 1 (4) 0 1 (4) 0 0 0
Hypophosphatemia 0 0 1 (4) 0 0 0
Infection 2 (8) 1 (13) 1 (4) 0 0 0
Mucositis 5 (21) 4 (50) 2 (8) 0 0 0
Nausea/emesis 2 (8) 1 (13) 0 0 0 0
Neutropenia 1 (4) 0 1 (4) 0 0 0
Rash 7 (29) 5 (63) 6 (25) 1 (13) 0 0
Thrombocytopenia 0 1 (13) 2 (8) 1 (13) 1 (4) 0
Transaminase elevation 0 0 0 1 (13) 0 0
Weight loss 1 (4) 0 0 0 0 0

Numbers in parentheses refer to percentages

1

Stratum A: Patients not on CYP3A-inducing anti-epileptics (EIA-EDS) including phenytoin, carbamazepine, phenobarbitol, oxcarbazepine and primidone

Stratum B: Patients on EIAEDs