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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Aug 5.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer. 2010 Jan 1;116(1):106–114. doi: 10.1002/cncr.24714

Table 3.

Patient Disposition and Study Drug Tolerability

Variable No. of Patients (%)
No. of patients enrolled 102
No. of patients treated 100
No. of patients completing ≥6 cycles 60 (60)
Median no. of cycles completed [range] 6 [1-8]
Reasons for early termination*
 Total no. of AEs 27
  Thrombocytopenia 9
  Fatigue 6
  Neutropenia 4
  Infusion-related reaction 1
  Nausea 1
  Renal failure 1
  Cough 1
  Pulmonary alveolar hemorrhage 1
  Decline in performance status 1
  Increase in platelet count 1
  Leukopenia 1
 Disease progression 10
 Patient preference for reason other than AE 1
 Other 2

AE indicates adverse event.

*

Forty patients completed <6 treatment cycles.

Other reasons for early termination included referral for bone marrow transplantation in 1 patient and a treatment delay >4 weeks in 1 patient.