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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Support Care Cancer. 2017 Apr 10;25(9):2787–2795. doi: 10.1007/s00520-017-3692-x

Table 2.

Chemotherapy treatment patterns

Chemotherapy regimen Abbreviation Number Dose delays ≥7 days
n (%)
RDI ≤85%
n (%)
Switched regimen
n (%)
Breast cancer 3314 307 (9.3) 840 (25.3) 186 (5.6)
    Doxorubicin + cyclophosphamide AC 352 14 (4.0) 37 (10.5) 12 (3.4)
    AC followed by paclitaxel or docetaxel AC-T 633 85 (13.4) 451 (71.2) 6 (0.9)
    Dose-dense AC-T ddAC-T 293 61 (20.8) 99 (33.8) 4 (1.4)
    Cyclophosphamide + docetaxel TC 814 38 (4.7) 74 (9.1) 50 (6.1)
    Docetaxel + doxorubicin + cyclophosphamide TAC 423 40 (9.5) 42 (9.9) 22 (5.2)
    Cyclophosphamide + doxorubicin + fluorouracil CAF 148 9 (6.1) 10 (6.8) 7 (4.7)
    Trastuzumab + AC-T -- 187 25 (13.4) 112 (59.9) 19 (10.2)
    Docetaxel + carboplatin + trastuzumab TCH 464 35 (7.5) 15 (3.2) 66 (14.2)
Lung cancer 1443 161 (11.2) 259 (17.9) 227 (15.7)
    Etoposide + carboplatin EC 187 43 (23.0) 56 (29.9) 26 (13.9)
    Gemcitabine + carboplatin G/C 180 31 (17.2) 42 (23.3) 39 (21.7)
    Carboplatin + paclitaxel NA 878 79 (9.0) 134 (15.3) 158 (18.0)
    Etoposide + cisplatin EP 198 8 (4.0) 27 (13.6) 4 (2.0)
NHL 581 96 (16.5) 162 (27.9) 38 (6.5)
    Cyclophosphamide + doxorubicin + vincristine + prednisone CHOP 60 8 (13.3) 24 (40.0) 5 (8.3)
    Rituximab + CHOP R-CHOP 521 88 (16.9) 138 (26.5) 33 (6.3)