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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Br J Haematol. 2013 Jan 29;161(1):76–86. doi: 10.1111/bjh.12222

Table IV.

Bleomycin lung toxicity characteristics.

Case Age (years)/sex Treatment Tobacco history
(status at entry)
Baseline EF FVC, and
DLCO
Timing of
BLT
Initial CTCAE
code
Death due
to BLT
HL disease
status
1 72/M ABVD 46 pack-years
(active)
72%, 84%, and 47% Cycle 5 Grade 3
hypoxia
No DWOD*
2 61/F ABVD None 49%, 66%, and 54% Cycle 5 Grade 2 SOB No DOD
3 66/M ABVD 40 pack-years
(none in 20 years)
55%, 74%, and 84% Cycle 5 Grade 2 cough No AWOD
4 64/F ABVD None 45%, 102%, and 87% Cycle 5 Grade 1 cough,
Grade 1 PI
No AWOD
5 69/M Stanford V 50-pack years
(active)
62%, 89%, and 90% Month 3 Grade 4
dyspnea
No AWOD
6 66/M ABVD None 67%, 92%, and 24% Cycle 4 Grade 2 cough No AWOD
7 72/F ABVD None 78%, 95%, and 83% Cycle 6 Grade 2 cough No AWOD
8 78/F ABVD None 73%, 75%, and 77% Cycle 3 Grade 4
pulmonary
Yes DWOD^
9 62/F ABVD 60-pack years
(none in 20 years)
NA, 72%, and 63% Cycle 6 Grade 2 cough No AWOD
10 77/F ABVD 5 pack-years
(none in 40 years)
79%, 106%, and 92% Cycle 4 Grade 1 cough,
Grade 1 PI
No AWOD
11 69/M ABVD None 55%, 104%, and 115% Cycle 3 Grade 3
pulmonary
Yes DWOD^

Abbreviations: M, male; F, female; FVC, forced vital capacity; DLCO, diffusion of lung capacity of carbon monoxide; EF, ejection fraction; CTCAE, Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events; BLT, bleomycin lung toxicity; HL, Hodgkin lymphoma; SOB, shortness of breath; AWOD, alive without disease; DOD, dead as a result of disease; DWOD, dead without disease; PI, pulmonary infiltrates.

*

Death due to lung cancer.

^

Death due to acute pulmonary fibrosis (during chemotherapy).