Table 4 Toxicity in IPM: by course, showing the percentage of courses complicated by WHO grade grade 3–4 toxicity and the number of patients who experienced this

From: IPM chemotherapy in cytokine refractory renal cell cancer

 

No. of courses

% Courses grade 3–4

No. of patients

Malaise

87

17

10

Dyspnoea

85

7

5

Infection

87

6

4

Diarrhoea

87

1

1

Anorexia

85

2

2

Nausea

87

1

1

Vomiting

86

0

0

Stomatitis

82

0

0

Neutropenia

89

19

12

Thrombocytopenia

90

1

1

Hb/WBC

90

10

5

Renal

80

0

0

  1. Seventeen patients were admitted because of toxicity, of whom two were admitted on two occasions.