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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Dec 11.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer Chemother Pharmacol. 2011 May 10;68(6):1595–1602. doi: 10.1007/s00280-011-1657-1

Table 4.

Commonly Observed Toxicities (adverse events which were unlikely or not related to treatment were excluded)

ADVERSE EVENT Capecitabine, Gemcitabine (n=51)
Grade
0 1 2 3 4 5


Blood/Bone Marrow 6 7 13 21 4 0
Cardiac Arrhythmia 49 0 1 1 0 0
Cardiac General 48 1 2 0 0 0
Constitutional symptoms 11 21 11 7 1 0
Dermatology/Skin 24 11 12 4 0 0
Gastrointestinal 7 21 13 10 0 0
Hemorrhage/Bleeding 49 0 1 1 0 0
Hepatobiliary/Pancreas 47 0 4 0 0 0
Infection 44 0 5 2 0 0
Lymphatics 43 6 2 0 0 0
Metabolic/Laboratory 15 11 14 11 0 0
Musculoskeletal/Soft Tissue 46 0 4 1 0 0
Neurology 43 7 1 0 0 0
Ocular/Visual 48 3 0 0 0 0
Pain 30 10 8 2 1 0
Pulmonary/Upper Respiratory 45 4 2 0 0 0
Renal/Genitourinary 48 0 3 0 0 0
Vascular 48 0 2 0 1 0
MAXIMUM GRADE ANY ADVERSE EVENT Number 0 2 12 31 6 0