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Table 5 Toxicity in the Trial and Control Group

From: The effect of chemotherapy combined with recombination mutant human tumor necrosis factor on advanced cancer

Toxicity

Trial (n = 69)

Control (n = 36)

P*

 

0

I

II

III

IV

0

I

II

III

IV

 

Anemia

37

16

8

7

1

21

9

4

1

1

0.665

Leukopenia

28

23

9

9

0

17

13

4

2

0

0.570

Thrombocytopia

59

5

2

2

1

31

3

1

1

0

0.557

Nausea / Vomiting

32

16

19

2

0

18

4

11

2

1

0.476

Fever

52

12

5

0

0

36

0

0

0

0

0.000

Eruption

67

2

0

0

0

36

0

0

0

0

0.274

Cold-like symptoms

47

19

3

0

0

36

0

0

0

0

0.000

Ostealgia / Myosalgia

46

21

2

0

0

36

0

0

0

0

0.000

Chill

38

31

0

0

0

36

0

0

0

0

0.000

Pain in injection area

13

41

15

0

0

36

0

0

0

0

0.000

Hardening, swelling and redness in injection area

42

17

10

0

0

36

0

0

0

0

0.000

  1. *The p value is calculated by Fisher exact chi-square because n<30 or some cells have expected count less than 1.