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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Oct 14.
Published in final edited form as: Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2013 Jan 17;60(7):1141–1147. doi: 10.1002/pbc.24398

TABLE II.

Non-Hematologic Adverse Events of Grade 3 and Higher for Patients With ALL and AML Treated at Clofarabine Dose of 40 mg/m2

Toxicity site Toxicity type CTCAE
ALL (n = 8)
AML (n = 2)
Induction, Cycle I
Induction, Cycle II
Induction, Cycle I
Induction, Cycle II
N % N % N % N %
Gastrointestinal
Anorexia 1 13% 0 0% 1 50% 0 0%
Diarrhea 2 25% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0%
Infection
Febrile neutropenia (fever of unknown origin without clinically or microbiologically documented infection; ANC <1.0 × 109/L, fever ≥38.5 days) 5 63% 1 25% 1 50% 0 0%
Infection (documented clinically or microbiologically) with Grade 3 or 4 neutrophils (ANC <1.0 × 109/L) lung (pneumonia) 2 25% 0 0% 2 100% 0 0%
Infection (documented clinically or microbiologically) with Grade 3 or 4 neutrophils (ANC <1.0 × 109/L) blood 2 25% 1 25% 1 50% 0 0%
Infection, other 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 1 100%
Metabolic/laboratory
ALT, SGPT (serum glutamic pyruvic transaminase) 2 25% 0 0% 1 50% 0 0%
AST, SGOT (serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase) 3 38% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0%
Potassium, serum-low (hypokalemia) 3 38% 0 0% 1 50% 0 0%
Pain
Abdomen NOS 3 38% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0%
Head/headache 2 25% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0%
Pulmonary/upper respiratory
Hypoxia 2 25% 1 25% 0 0% 0 0%
Pneumonitis/pulmonary infiltrates 2 25% 0 0% 1 50% 0 0%
Total patients 8 4 2 1
Patients with toxicity 7 88% 2 50% 2 100% 1 100%
Patients without toxicity 1 13% 2 50% 0 0% 0 0%

CTCAE = Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (version 3.0). Listed are toxicities occurring in more than one patient, and are listed regardless of relationship to study drug.