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. 2016 Sep 30;31(2):310–317. doi: 10.1038/leu.2016.225

Table 3. Toxicity outcomes—tests are by Wilcoxon rank-sum test except for *(log-rank test).

Toxicity DA
DClo
P-value
  % grade 3–4 Mean grade % grade 3–4 Mean grade  
Course 1
Nausea 5% 0.8 10% 1.0 0.01
Oral 3% 0.7 2% 0.7 0.4
Diarrhoea 12% 1.1 8% 1.0 0.12
Cardiac 7% 0.4 5% 0.3 0.3
Liver AST 6% 0.6 6% 0.5 0.6
Liver ALT 4% 0.6 6% 0.7 0.3
Bilirubin 7% 0.8 5% 0.7 0.04
Median days to neutrophil recovery 20   24   <0.0001*
Median days to platelet recovery 21   24   <0.0001*
Mean blood units 11.0   9.5   0.0002
Mean platelet units 12.9   9.8   <0.0001
Mean days antibiotics 19.7   16.7   <0.0001
Mean hospitalisation days 33.8   31.4   <0.0001
 
Course 2
Nausea 4% 0.7 7% 0.9 0.004
Oral 1% 0.4 1% 0.4 0.9
Diarrhoea 4% 0.6 9% 0.7 0.19
Cardiac 2% 0.1 2% 0.2 0.7
Liver AST 1% 0.2 4% 0.4 0.06
Liver ALT 3% 0.4 2% 0.6 0.004
Bilirubin 3% 0.5 5% 0.4 0.4
Median days to neutrophil recovery 20   21   0.2*
Median days to platelet recovery 25   24   0.3*
Mean blood units 6.3   6.4   0.9
Mean platelet units 6.0   5.7   0.03
Mean days antibiotics 9.4   9.6   0.6
Mean hospitalisation days 25.0   23.4   0.01