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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Dec 27.
Published in final edited form as: N Engl J Med. 2015 Apr 20;372(21):2006–2017. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1414428

Table 4.

Treatment-related select adverse event and their management with immunomodulatory medication (IMM) by organ category

Select Adverse Event Organ Category Nivolumab + Ipilimumab (N=94)
Ipilimumab (N=46)
Patients reporting select adverse event, n (A) Patients managed with IMM, n (% of A) (B) Patients with resolutiona of select adverse event after treatment with IMM, n (% of B) Median time to resolutiona, weeks (95% CI) Patients reporting select adverse event, n (A) Patients managed with IMM, n (% of A) (B) Patients with resolutiona of select adverse event after treatment with IMM, n (% of B) Median time to resolutiona, weeks (95% CI)

Skin 67 41 (61.2) 24 (68.6) 18.6 (9.3, 35.1) 26 13 (50.0) 11 (84.6) 8.6 (3.3, 22.0)
 Grade 3–4 9 9 (100.0) 8 (88.9) 6.1 (0.9, 24.1) 0 0 0 NE

Gastrointestinal 48 31 (64.6) 26 (92.9) 4.7 (3.0, 6.7) 17 11 (64.7) 7 (77.8) 5.0 (1.4, 12.1)
 Grade 3–4 20 16 (80.0) 15 (88.2) 4.3 (1.4, 10.7) 5 5 (100.0) 4 (80.0) 3.6 (0.7, 5.0)

Endocrineb 32 14 (43.8) 2 (14.3) NE (NE, NE) 8 3 (37.5) 1 (33.3) NE (0.9, NE)
 Grade 3–4 5 4 (80.0) 1 (25.0) NE (5.6, NE) 2 2 (100) 1 (50.0) NE (0.9, NE)

Hepatic 26 13 (50.0) 11 (84.6) 14.1 (3.1, 19.6) 2 0 0 NE
 Grade 3–4 14 12 (85.7) 10 (83.3) 8.3 (2.1, 14.1) 0 0 0 NE

Pulmonary 11 8 (72.7) 6 (75.0) 6.1 (0.3, 9.0) 2 2 (100.0) 2 (100.0) 3.2 (2.9, 3.6)
 Grade 3–4 3 3 (100.0) 2 (66.7) 9.0 (0.3, 9.0) 1 1 (100.0) 1 (100.0) 3.6 (NE, NE)

Renal 3 2 (66.7) 2 (100.0) 0.4 (0.3, 0.6) 1 0 0 NE
 Grade 3–4 1 1 (100.0) 1 (100.0) 0.6 (NE, NE) 0 0 0 NE

Table includes events reported after the first dose and within 100 days of the last dose of study treatment.

a

Resolution of an event was defined as complete resolution or improvement to the baseline level among all clustered events in a given category experienced by the patient.

b

Endocrine events were managed with hormone replacement therapy. Patients requiring long term hormone replacement therapy were not counted as resolved.

NE, not estimable