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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jan 15.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Cancer Res. 2018 Nov 12;25(2):524–532. doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-18-2258

Table 2.

Treatment Related Toxicities. Table 2a shows the overall safety summary and Table 2b summarizes selected immune related adverse events.Table 2a. Safety summary by study arm (n=83). Table 2b.Selected Immune-Related Adverse Events (%)

Ipi10 + HDI
(n = 18)
Ipi10
(n = 22)
Ipi3 + HDI
(n = 21)
Ipi3
(n = 22)
Any
Grade
Grade
3/4/5
Any
grade
Grade
3/4/5
Any
Grade
Grade
3/4/5
Any
Grade
Grade
3/4/5
Any AE, % 100 94 100 63 100 76 100 46
Any immune-related AE, % 100 39 77 36 76 33 86.4 32
Grade 5 events that were considered at least possibly related (n=3):
• Suicide (Ipi10 + HDI)
• Lung infection and haemorrhage (Ipi10)
• Adult respiratory distress syndrome (Ipi3 + HDI)
• An additional patient died of gastrointestinal bleed and cardiac arrest while on corticosteroids to treat temporal arteritis and vision loss (Ipi10)
Ipi10 + HDI
(n = 18)
Ipi10
(n = 22)
Ipi3 + HDI
(n = 21)
Ipi3
(n = 22)
Any Grade Grade 3 Grade
4
Any Grade Grade 3 Grade
4
Any Grade Grade
3
Grade
4
Any Grade Grade
3
Grade
4
Dermatologic
Rash 83 11 - 64 5 - 29 5 - 50 5 -
Gastrointestinal
Diarrhea 61 0 0 27 9 0 33 5 - 36 5 -
Colitis 6 - - - - - 5 - - - - -
Pancreas
Lipase increase 39 - 6 9 9 - 14 - - 9 5 5
Endocrine
Hypophysitis 6 6 - - - - - - - 5 - 5
Adrenal insuff. 6 6 - 14 - - 5 - - 5 - -
Hypothyroid 28 - - 9 - - 10 - - 14 - -
Hepatic
ALT/AST increase 67 17 - 9 9 - 57 19 - 9 - 5
Neurologic
Peripheral sensory neuropathy 6 - - 5 - - 5 - - - - -
Other
CPK increase 11 - 11 - - - 10 5 - - - -

Arm A (ipilimumab 10 mg/kg [ipi10] + high-dose interferon-α [HDI])

Arm B (ipilimumab 10 mg/kg alone)

Arm C (ipilimumab 3 mg/kg [ipi3] + high-dose interferon-α)

Arm D (ipilimumab 3 mg/kg alone)

IFN: Interferon; peg-IFN: Pegylated-interferon