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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Oct 24.
Published in final edited form as: Anticancer Res. 2016 Feb;36(2):713–719.

Table IV.

Serious treatment-emergent adverse events (AEs), regardless of relationship to study drug.

AE, n (%) BEZ235 300 mg bid
n=20
BEZ235 400 mg bid
n=11
All
N=31

All grades Grade 3/4 All grades Grade 3/4 All grades Grade 3/4
Total 8 (40.0) 6 (30.0) 5 (45.5) 3 (27.3) 13 (41.9) 9 (29.0)
Sepsis 2 (10.0) 2 (10.0) 0 0 2 (6.5) 2 (6.5)
Abdominal pain 2 (10.0) 1 (5.0) 0 0 2 (6.5) 1 (3.2)
Cardiac arrest 1 (5.0) 1 (5.0) 0 0 1 (3.2) 1 (3.2)
Constipation 0 0 1 (9.1) 1 (9.1) 1 (3.2) 1 (3.2)
Hepatic pain 0 0 1 (9.1) 1 (9.1) 1 (3.2) 1 (3.2)
Hyponatremia 1 (5.0) 1 (5.0) 0 0 1 (3.2) 1 (3.2)
Infection 1 (5.0) 1 (5.0) 0 0 1 (3.2) 1 (3.2)
Spinal cord compression 0 0 1 (9.1) 1 (9.1) 1 (3.2) 1 (3.2)
Staphylococcal infection 1 (5.0) 1 (5.0) 0 0 1 (3.2) 1 (3.2)
Systolic dysfunction 0 0 1 (9.1) 1 (9.1) 1 (3.2) 1 (3.2)
Ventricular hyperkinesia 0 0 1 (9.1) 1 (9.1) 1 (3.2) 1 (3.2)
Vomiting 1 (5.0) 1 (5.0) 0 0 1 (3.2) 1 (3.2)
Anaemia 1 (5.0) 0 0 0 1 (3.2) 0
Cholestasis 0 0 1 (9.1) 0 1 (3.2) 0
Diarrhoea 0 0 1 (9.1) 0 1 (3.2) 0
Erysipelas 1 (5.0) 0 0 0 1 (3.2) 0
Pyrexia 1 (5.0) 0 0 0 1 (3.2) 0
Spinal column stenosis 1 (5.0) 0 0 0 1 (3.2) 0

A patient with multiple occurrences of an AE under one treatment is counted only once in the AE category for that treatment at the maximum severity grade. bid, Twice daily.