Table 4.
Hematologic and Infectious Toxicity
| Toxicity | Grade 3-4 |
Grade 4 Only |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patients |
No. of Episodes | % of Cycles | Patients |
% of Cycles | |||
| No. | % | No. | % | ||||
| Hematologic | |||||||
| Neutropenia | 43 | 73 | 17 | 30 | 51 | 9.0 | |
| Thrombocytopenia | 20 | 34 | 7.4 | 9 | 15 | 2.1 | |
| Anemia | 9 | 15 | 3.0 | 1 | 1.7 | 0.2 | |
| Infection* | |||||||
| Pneumonia/bronchitis | 6 | 10 | 6 | ||||
| Urinary tract | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||
| Other infection† | 2 | 3 | 2 | ||||
| Any infectious event‡ | 9 | 15 | 9 | ||||
| Fever | |||||||
| Neutropenic fever | 6 | 10 | 6 | ||||
| Febrile, non-neutropenic | 2 | 3 | 3 | ||||
| Any febrile or infectious event§ | 14 | 24 | 18 | ||||
All infectious toxicity was grade ≤ 3.
Other infection: orodental (n = 1), wound (n = 1).
Total of pneumonia/bronchitis, urinary tract, and other infections.
Total of neutropenic and non-neutropenic febrile events and infectious events.