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. 2017 Jan 22;25(6):1819–1828. doi: 10.1007/s00520-017-3572-4

Table 5.

Safety outcomes by prophylaxis decision

Under Correct Over p
Clinical Events (patient level, n = 1447)
 Bone pain 23.6% 28.5% 25.0% n.s.
 Thrombocytopenia 19.4% 17.4% 17.7% n.s.
 Serum LDH increase 16.6% 20.2% 14.4% n.s.
 Muscle pain 12.1% 16.8% 16.1% n.s.
 Joint pain 11.6% 15.9% 15.6% n.s.
 Serum GGT increase 12.8% 14.9% 15.4% n.s.
 Serum ALP increase 11.9% 13.3% 15.3% n.s.
 Other neurological symptoms 8.7% 7.5% 7.4% n.s.
 Headache 3.4% 8.9% 7.3% 0.027
 Blood uric acid increase 9.3% 7.7% 5.0% n.s.
 Confusion/altered mental status 3.5% 2.6% 4.6% n.s.
 Epistaxis 1.8% 2.2% 2.5% n.s.
 Bleeding other than GI, skin hemorrhage 2.6% 2.0% 2.8% n.s.
 Splenomegaly 1.3% 1.2% 0.3% n.s.
 GI bleeding 0.4% 0.9% 0.3% n.s.
 Skin hemorrhage 0.4% 0.8% 0.3% n.s.
Adverse drug reactions (cycle-level, n = 6142) 2.3% 1.8% 1.5% n.s.

ALP alkaline phosphatase, GGT gamma glutamyl transpeptidase, GI gastro intestinal, LDH lactate dehydrogenase n.s. not significant