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Table 6 The most frequent (≥2)a QT-DDIs along with their levels and TdP risks of drugs involved in these QT-DDIs stratified with respect to various types of cancer

From: Frequency, characteristics and risk factors of QT interval prolonging drugs and drug-drug interactions in cancer patients: a multicenter study

QT-DDIs

TdP risk

Levels of QT-DDIs

Frequency

Drug 1

Drug 2

Severity

Documentation

QT-DDIs: n (%)b

Breast cancer

 Ciprofloxacin-Ondansetron

Known risk of TdP

Known risk of TdP

Major

Fair

31 (10.8)

 Ciprofloxacin-Prochlorperazine

Known risk of TdP

Not included in lists

Major

Fair

31 (10.8)

 Ondansetron-Prochlorperazine

Known risk of TdP

Not included in lists

Major

Fair

31 (10.8)

Gastrointestinal cancer

 Ondansetron-Prochlorperazine

Known risk of TdP

Not included in lists

Major

Fair

26 (9)

 Ciprofloxacin-Ondansetron

Known risk of TdP

Known risk of TdP

Major

Fair

13 (4.5)

 Ciprofloxacin-Prochlorperazine

Known risk of TdP

Not included in lists

Major

Fair

12 (4.2)

 Dolasetron-Ondansetron

Possible risk of TdP

Known risk of TdP

Major

Fair

2 (0.7)

Gynecologic cancer

 Ciprofloxacin-Ondansetron

Known risk of TdP

Known risk of TdP

Major

Fair

8 (2.8)

 Ciprofloxacin-Prochlorperazine

Known risk of TdP

Not included in lists

Major

Fair

6 (2.1)

 Ondansetron-Prochlorperazine

Known risk of TdP

Not included in lists

Major

Fair

6 (2.1)

Genitourinary cancer

 Ondansetron-Prochlorperazine

Known risk of TdP

Not included in lists

Major

Fair

7 (2.4)

Musculoskeletal cancer

 Ciprofloxacin-Ondansetron

Known risk of TdP

Known risk of TdP

Major

Fair

4 (1.4)

 Ciprofloxacin-Prochlorperazine

Known risk of TdP

Not included in lists

Major

Fair

4 (1.4)

 Ondansetron-Prochlorperazine

Known risk of TdP

Not included in lists

Major

Fair

4 (1.4)

Chronic lymphocytic leukemia

 Dolasetron-Metronidazole

Possible risk of TdP

Conditional risk of TdP

Major

Fair

3 (1)

 Ciprofloxacin-Dolasetron

Known risk of TdP

Possible risk of TdP

Major

Fair

2 (0.7)

 Metronidazole-Nilotinib

Conditional risk of TdP

Conditional risk of TdP

Major

Fair

2 (0.7)

Non hodgkin lymphoma

 Ciprofloxacin-Metronidazole

Known risk of TdP

Conditional risk of TdP

Major

Fair

2 (0.7)

 Ciprofloxacin-Ondansetron

Known risk of TdP

Known risk of TdP

Major

Fair

2 (0.7)

 Ondansetron-Prochlorperazine

Known risk of TdP

Not included in lists

Major

Fair

2 (0.7)

Adenocarcinoma

 Ciprofloxacin-Ondansetron

Known risk of TdP

Known risk of TdP

Major

Fair

2 (0.7)

 Ciprofloxacin-Prochlorperazine

Known risk of TdP

Not included in lists

Major

Fair

2 (0.7)

 Ondansetron-Prochlorperazine

Known risk of TdP

Not included in lists

Major

Fair

2 (0.7)

Head and neck cancer

 Ciprofloxacin-Ondansetron

Known risk of TdP

Known risk of TdP

Major

Fair

2 (0.7)

 Ciprofloxacin-Prochlorperazine

Known risk of TdP

Not included in lists

Major

Fair

2 (0.7)

 Ondansetron-Prochlorperazine

Known risk of TdP

Not included in lists

Major

Fair

2 (0.7)

Neurological cancer

 Ondansetron-Prochlorperazine

Known risk of TdP

Not included in lists

Major

Fair

2 (0.7)

Chronic myelogenous leukemia

 Metronidazole-Nilotinib

Conditional risk of TdP

Conditional risk of TdP

Major

Fair

2 (0.7)

  1. AZCERT Arizona Center for Education and Research on Therapeutics, TdP torsades de pointes, QT DDIs QT prolonging drug-drug interactions
  2. aAll results have been mentioned in Additional file 2: Table S2
  3. bPercentage calculated in total number of QT-DDIs i.e., 288