Table 1 Overall incidence of thrombotic and bleeding adverse events (treated patients)

From: Bleeding events in bevacizumab-treated cancer patients who received full-dose anticoagulation and remained on study

 

Study 1 (mCRC) a

Study 2 (mCRC)

Study 3 (NSCLC) b

Adverse event

IFL/placebo ( n =397)

IFL/BV ( n =392)

FOLFOX-4/XELOX/ placebo ( n =675)

FOLFOX-4/XELOX/ BV ( N =694)

CG/placebo ( n =327)

CG/BV ( n =659) b

Patients with any grade events, n (%)

 Arterial thrombosis

5 (1.3)

14 (3.6)

10 (1.5)

17 (2.4)

18 (5.5)

25 (3.8)

 Venous thrombosis

62 (15.6)

68 (17.3)

65 (9.6)

94 (13.5)

35 (10.7)

85 (12.9)

 Bleeding/haemorrhage

NAa

NAa

175 (25.9)

212 (30.5)

67 (20.5)

239 (36.3)

Patients with grade 3/4 events, n (%)

 Venous thrombosis

55 (13.8)

60 (15.3)

34 (5.0)

56 (8.1)

21 (6.4)

47 (7.1)

 Deep vein thrombosis

27 (6.8)

35 (8.9)

10 (1.5)

21 (3.0)

5 (1.5)

13 (2.0)

 Pulmonary embolus

20 (5.0)

15 (3.8)

7 (1.0)

18 (2.6)

10 (3.1)

26 (3.9)

 Bleeding/haemorrhage

10 (2.5)

13 (3.3)

8 (1.2)

13 (1.9)

4 (1.2)

23 (3.5)

  1. Abbreviations: BV=bevacizumab; CG=cisplatin+gemcitabine; FOLFOX-4=oxaliplatin, folinic acid and 5-fluorouracil; IFL=irinotecan/5-fluorouracil/leukovorin; mCRC=metastatic colorectal cancer; NA=not applicable; NSCLC=non-small cell lung cancer; XELOX=capecitabine plus oxaliplatin.
  2. aIn study 1, only grades 3–4 bleeding events were uniformly collected.
  3. bThe bevacizumab dose groups in study 3 (7.5 and 15 mg kg–1 every 3 weeks) were pooled.