Colitis in patients with breast carcinoma treated with taxane-based chemotherapy

Cancer
Zhiyong LiGabriel N Hortobagyi

Abstract

Colitis is a rare but serious gastrointestinal complication associated with taxane-based chemotherapy in patients with cancer. The incidence, clinical presentation, and outcome of colitis in patients with breast carcinoma treated with taxane-based chemotherapy is not known. The authors searched their electronic database and identified patients with breast carcinoma who were treated with taxane-based chemotherapy between January 1997 and December 1999. Patients diagnosed with colitis were identified and their presentation and clinical outcomes were analyzed. During the study period, 1350 patients received taxane-based chemotherapy. Sixty-four patients were admitted to The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center (Houston, TX) (73 admissions) for gastrointestinal complications. Neutropenia and/or fever accounted for 56 of these admissions. Fourteen patients (16 admissions) were diagnosed with colitis. All had abdominal pain at median Day 6 of their chemotherapy cycle (range, 3-8 days), with or without other symptoms. Computed tomography scans of the abdomen and pelvis were abnormal for the 10 patients tested, whereas only 3 of the 9 patients who underwent radiographic abdominal series had abnormal findings. Two patients h...Continue Reading

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