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. 2016 Nov 7;2016:1798285. doi: 10.1155/2016/1798285

Table 2.

Toxic (grade 3 or worse) effects in trials comparing capecitabine with 5-Fu.

Toxicity Number of trials Number of cases OR (95% CI) Test of homogeneity P value
Cape 5-Fu I 2 (%) P value
Lowered hemoglobin 7 6/696 5/748 1.13 (0.36, 3.54)# 24.6 0.27 0.83
Lowered leucocytes 7 7/696 31/748 0.24 (0.11, 0.54)# 28.9 0.23 0.0005
Lowered platelets 6 0/658 4/699 0.30 (0.05, 1.88)# 0 0.99 0.2
Nausea 6 10/906 4/905 2.30 (0.79, 6.70)# 0 0.51 0.13
Vomiting 6 7/1038 2/1049 3.04 (0.72, 12.75)# 0 0.66 0.13
Diarrhea 9 87/1204 95/1252 0.92 (0.67, 1.24)§ 66.7 0.002 0.57
Mucositis 4 1/419 4/449 0.33 (0.05, 2.10)# 0 0.64 0.24
Hand-foot syndrome 9 17/1204 3/1252 4.43 (1.59, 12.33)# 0 0.48 0.004
Radiation dermatitis 7 26/972 32/1010 0.85 (0.51, 1.44)§ 49.3 0.08 0.55

RR, risk ratio; cape, capecitabine; CI, confidence interval.

#Fixed-effect model.

§Random-effects model.

National Cancer Institute Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events, version 4.0.