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. 2014 Sep 10;44(11):1032–1039. doi: 10.1093/jjco/hyu128

Table 1.

Incidence of drug-induced lung injury (DLI) during cetuximab therapy according to patient characteristics

Patient characteristic
Safety population Number of patients with DLI Incidence of DLI P value
n 2006 24 1.2%
Sex Male 1234 18 1.46% 0.2083
Female 772 6 0.78%
Age <65 years 1032 6 0.58% 0.0122
≥65 years 971 18 1.85%
Unknown 3 0 0.0%
PS 0 1370 19 1.39% 0.3762
1 630 5 0.79%
2 2 0 0%
Other 4 0 0%
Treatment line Second line 133 2 1.50% 0.6711
Third line or later 1869 22 1.18%
Other 4 0 0%
Prior interstitial lung disease (ILD) 1955 21 1.07% 0.0442
+ 4 1 25%
Unknown 47 2 4.26%
Complications 1019 11 1.08% 0.6833
+ 974 13 1.33%
Unknown 13 0 0%
Combination chemotherapy 460 2 0.43% 0.2083
+ 1546 22 1.42%
CPT-11 alone 1255 17 1.35%
FOLFIRI 256 4 1.56%
Other 35 1 2.86%