Plasma Cetuximab Concentrations Correlate With Survival in Patients With Advanced KRAS Wild Type Colorectal Cancer

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BACKGROUND: Cetuximab is a standard of care therapy for patients with RAS wild-type (WT) advanced colorectal cancer. Limited data suggest a wide variation in cetuximab plasma concentrations after standard dosing regimens. We correlated cetuximab plasma concentrations with survival and toxicity.

METHODS: The CO. 20 study randomized patients with RAS WT advanced colorectal cancer in a 1:1 ratio to cetuximab 400 mg/m2 intravenously followed by weekly maintenance of 250 mg/m2, plus brivanib 800 mg orally daily or placebo. Blood samples obtained at week 5 precetuximab treatment were analyzed by ELISA. Patients were grouped into tertiles based on plasma cetuximab concentrations. Cetuximab concentration tertiles were correlated with survival outcomes and toxicity. Patient demographic and biochemical parameters were evaluated as co-variables.

RESULTS: Week 5 plasma cetuximab concentrations were available for 591 patients (78.8%). The median overall survival (OS) was 11.4 months and 7.8 months for patients in the highest (T3) and lowest tertiles (T1) respectively. On multivariable analysis, plasma cetuximab concentration was associated with OS (HR 0.66, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.53-0.83, P < .001, T3 vs. T1), and a trend towards progression-free survival (HR 0.82, 95% CI: 0.66-1.02, P = .07, T3 vs. T1). There was no association between cetuximab concentration and skin toxicity or diarrhea.

CONCLUSION: The standard cetuximab dosing regimen may not be optimal for all patients. Further pharmacokinetic studies are needed to optimize cetuximab dosing given the potential improvement in OS.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:22

Enthalten in:

Clinical colorectal cancer - 22(2023), 4 vom: 01. Dez., Seite 457-463

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Jiang, Di Maria [VerfasserIn]
Parshad, Shruti [VerfasserIn]
Zhan, Luna [VerfasserIn]
Sim, Hao-Wen [VerfasserIn]
Siu, Lillian L [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Geoffrey [VerfasserIn]
Shapiro, Jeremy D [VerfasserIn]
Price, Timothy J [VerfasserIn]
Jonker, Derek J [VerfasserIn]
Karapetis, Christos S [VerfasserIn]
Strickland, Andrew H [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Wenjiang [VerfasserIn]
Jeffery, Mark [VerfasserIn]
Tu, Dongsheng [VerfasserIn]
Ng, Siobhan [VerfasserIn]
Sabesan, Sabe [VerfasserIn]
Shannon, Jenny [VerfasserIn]
Townsend, Amanda [VerfasserIn]
O'Callaghan, Chris J [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Eric X [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Cetuximab
EC 3.6.5.2
Journal Article
KRAS protein, human
Overall survival
PQX0D8J21J
Proto-Oncogene Proteins p21(ras)
Randomized Controlled Trial
Toxicity

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Date Completed 04.12.2023

Date Revised 05.04.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.clcc.2023.08.006

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM362018286