Thirty-seven patients were able to complete the full study protocol, 2 had severe mucositis and
hand-foot syndrome while one patient died after septicaemia.
Of particular note, no patients developed
hand-foot syndrome, a common and debilitating side effect of fluoropyrimidine treatment.
Toxicities associated with clinical benefit from EGFR inhibitors include rash, xerosis, leukocytoclastic vasculitis, paronychia, and pruritus, whereas skin toxicities associated with the multikinase inhibitors trended toward the
hand-foot syndrome and hand-foot skin reaction.
Diffuse hyperpigmentation, Xerosis and
Hand-foot syndrome, developed in 4 patients each.
Multikinase inhibitors, a common cause of
hand-foot syndrome (HFS), are also associated with facial erythema, subungual splinter hemorrhages, and other skin changes, he added.
A history of
hand-foot syndrome and the number of transfusions of more than 3 per patient were associated with an increased risk of short stature with OR, respectively, 4.3 and 4.8.
This side effect is known variously as
hand-foot syndrome, palmar-plantar erythrodysesthesia (PPE) or hand-to-foot syndrome.
The most common grade 3/4 cediranib related toxicities on the original study were hypertension (36%), fatigue (30%),
hand-foot syndrome (16%), and diarrhea (11%).
(3) TEC includes Burgdorf's Reaction, erythrodysesthesia, acral erythema, toxic acral erythema, eccrine squamous syringometaplasia, epidermal dysmaturation, epidermal dystrophy,
hand-foot syndrome, palmar-plantar erythema, palmarplantar dysesthesia, and neutrophilic eccrine hidradenitis.
- Chemotherapy Induced Acral Erythema (
Hand-Foot Syndrome) Global Clinical Trials Review, H1, 2014