. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Mar 1.

Published in final edited form as: J Geriatr Oncol. 2019 Sep 26;11(2):274–279. doi: 10.1016/j.jgo.2019.08.015

Table 2.

Patients with documented grade 3–5 chemotherapy-related toxicity overall and by the level of social support

Chemotherapy-related toxicity	Overall	By the level of social support

	N (%)	Poor social support (≤ 75) N ( %)	Good social support (> 75) N (%)	P value^*

No toxicity	234 (47.0%)	67 (51.5%)	167 (45.4%)

Any grade 3-5 toxicity	264 (53.0%)	63 (48.5%)	201 (54.6%)	0.23
By toxicity type
Hematological	49 (9.8%)	15 (11.5%)	34 (9.2%)	0.45
Non-hematological	134 (26.9%)	29 (22.3%)	105 (28.5%)	0.17
Both	81 (16.3%)	19 (14.6%)	62 (16.9%)	0.55

Ascertained from Chi-square test.