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. 2020 Nov 28;144:382–385. doi: 10.1016/j.ejca.2020.11.015

Table 1.

Patient characteristics.

Sex Age Stage (AJCC 2017a) Checkpoint inhibitor Indicationb Comorbidities Symptoms Days of hospitalisation (ICUc) Outcome
m 30 IIIB Nivolumab Adjuvant None Flu-like, dysgeusia 0 Fully recovered
m 72 IV Nivolumab+ipilimumab Palliative None Fever, flu-like, dysgeusia 0 Fully recovered
m 62 IV Nivolumab+ipilimumab Palliative Cardiovascular, gastrointestinal None 0 Asymptomatic
m 71 IV Nivolumab+ipilimumab Palliative Cardiovascular, respiratory None 0 Asymptomatic
w 65 IIIC Pembrolizumab Adjuvant None Cough 0 Fully recovered
w 83 IV Nivolumab+ipilimumab Adjuvant Cardiovascular, hypothyroidism, thromboembolism Cough, fever, dyspnoea, diarrhoea, circulatory symptoms 50(31) Recovered with sequelae
w 65 IV Pembrolizumab Palliative Cardiovascular Cough, flu-like symptoms, dysgeusia, headache 0 Fully recovered
m 50 IV Pembrolizumab Palliative None Cough, fever, dyspnoea, diarrhoea, circulatory symptoms 0 Fully recovered
w 76 IV Nivolumab Adjuvant Cardiovascular, previous cancer, hypothyroidism Flu-like symptoms, dysgeusia, cough, headache 0 Fully recovered
m 26 IV Pembrolizumab Palliative None Dysgeusia 0 Fully recovered
w 63 IV Nivolumab Palliative Hypothyroidism Fever, diarrhoea 10 Fully recovered
w 87 IV Nivolumab+ipilimumab Palliative Rheumatoid arthritis None 0 Asymptomatic
m 88 IV Pembrolizumab Palliative Hypothyroidism, haematologic, renal insufficiency, cardiovascular, thromboembolism None 0 Asymptomatic
a

American Joint Committee on Cancer.

b

Palliative: in unresectable stage III or IV disease.

c

ICU, intensive care unit; m, men; w, women.