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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Nov 22.
Published in final edited form as: N Engl J Med. 2015 May 31;373(1):23–34. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1504030

Table 3.

Adverse Events (Safety Population).*

Event Nivolumab alone
(N=313)
Nivolumab plus Ipilimumab
(N=313)
Ipilimumab alone
(N=311)
Total Grade 3 or 4 Total Grade 3 or 4 Total Grade 3 or 4
no. of patients with event (%)
Any adverse event 311 (99.4) 136 (43.5) 312 (99.7) 215 (68.7) 308 (99.0) 173 (55.6)
Treatment-related adverse event 257 (82.1) 51 (16.3) 299 (95.5) 172 (55.0) 268 (86.2) 85 (27.3)
 Diarrhea 60 (19.2) 7 (2.2) 138 (44.1) 29 (9.3) 103 (33.1) 19 (6.1)
 Fatigue 107 (34.2) 4 (1.3) 110 (35.1) 13 (4.2) 87 (28.0) 3 (1.0)
 Pruritus 59 (18.8) 0 104 (33.2) 6 (1.9) 110 (35.4) 1 (0.3)
 Rash 81 (25.9) 2 (0.6) 126 (40.3) 15 (4.8) 102 (32.8) 6 (1.9)
 Nausea 41 (13.1) 0 81 (25.9) 7 (2.2) 50 (16.1) 2 (0.6)
 Pyrexia 18 (5.8) 0 58 (18.5) 2 (0.6) 21 (6.8) 1 (0.3)
 Decreased appetite 34 (10.9) 0 56 (17.9) 4 (1.3) 39 (12.5) 1 (0.3)
 Increase in alanine aminotransferase 12 (3.8) 4 (1.3) 55 (17.6) 26 (8.3) 12 (3.9) 5 (1.6)
 Vomiting 20 (6.4) 1 (0.3) 48 (15.3) 8 (2.6) 23 (7.4) 1 (0.3)
 Increase in aspartate aminotransferase 12 (3.8) 3 (1.0) 48 (15.3) 19 (6.1) 11 (3.5) 2 (0.6)
 Hypothyroidism 27 (8.6) 0 47 (15.0) 1 (0.3) 13 (4.2) 0
 Colitis 4 (1.3) 2 (0.6) 37 (11.8) 24 (7.7) 36 (11.6) 27 (8.7)
 Arthralgia 24 (7.7) 0 33 (10.5) 1 (0.3) 19 (6.1) 0
 Headache 23 (7.3) 0 32 (10.2) 1 (0.3) 24 (7.7) 1 (0.3)
 Dyspnea 14 (4.5) 1 (0.3) 32 (10.2) 2 (0.6) 13 (4.2) 0
Treatment-related adverse event leading to discontinuation 24 (7.7) 16 (5.1) 114 (36.4) 92 (29.4) 46 (14.8) 41 (13.2)
*

The severity of adverse events was graded according to the National Cancer Institute Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events, version 4.0.

The treatment-related adverse events listed here were reported in at least 10% of the patients in any of the three study groups.