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. 2022 Jun 5;14(6):e25665. doi: 10.7759/cureus.25665

Table 4. Association between the type of immunotherapy and pneumonitis grade.

 (a) PD-1: programmed cell death-1; (b) PD-L1: programmed death-ligand 1; (c) both “3. Anti-Cytotoxic T-Lymphocyte Associated Protein-4 (CTLA-4): Ipilimumab and Atezolizumab”, and “7. Anti-cluster of differentiation 20 (CD20): Rituximab” are not shown because each had no patients; (d) EGFR: epidermal growth factor receptor; (e) VEGF: vascular endothelial growth factor. (f) RANKL: Receptor Activator of Nuclear Factor-kappa B

  Statistics Grade 1 Grade 2 Grade 3 Grades 4 or 5 Total
1. Anti-PD1 (a) (Nivolumab and Pembrolizumab) Count 14 22 44 9 89
% Within Treatment Type 15.7% 24.7% 49.4% 10.1% 100.0%
2. Anti-PDL1 (b) (Durvalumab and Atezolizumab) Count 14 15 17 5 51
% Within Treatment Type 27.5% 29.4% 33.3% 9.8% 100.0%
4(c). Anti-EGFR (d) (Cetuximab) Count 0 0 1 0 1
% Within Treatment Type 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0% 100.0%
5. Anti-VEGF (e) (Bevacizumab and Ramucirumab) Count 1 1 1 0 3
% Within Treatment Type 33.3% 33.3% 33.3% 0.0% 100.0%
6. Anti-RANKL (f) (Denosumab) Count 0 1 0 0 1
% Within Treatment Type 0.0% 100.0% 0.0% 0.0% 100.0%
Total Count 29 39 63 14 145
% Within Treatment Type 20.0% 26.9% 43.4% 9.7% 100.0%