Confounding mitigation for the exposure-response relationship of bevacizumab in colorectal cancer patients

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AIMS: The exposure-response relationship of bevacizumab may be confounded by various factors, including baseline characteristics, time-dependent target engagement and recursive relationships between exposure and response, requiring effective mitigation. This study aimed to investigate the exposure-response relationships of bevacizumab in metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) patients while mitigating potential biases.

METHODS: Bevacizumab pharmacokinetics was described using target-mediated drug disposition modelling. Relationships between target kinetics, progression-free (PFS) and overall (OS) survivals were assessed using joint pharmacokinetic and parametric hazard function models. Both prognostic-driven and response-driven potential biases were mitigated. These models evaluated the impact of increased antigen target levels, clearance and intensified dosing regimen on survival.

RESULTS: Estimated target-mediated pharmacokinetic parameters in 130 assessed patients were baseline target levels (R0 = 8.4 nM), steady-state dissociation constant (KSS = 10 nM) and antibody-target complexes elimination constant (kint = 0.52 day-1). The distribution of R0 was significantly associated with increased baseline concentrations of carcinoembryonic antigen, circulating vascular endothelial growth factor and the presence of extrahepatic metastases. Unbound target levels (R) significantly influenced both progression and death hazard functions. Increasing baseline target levels and/or clearance values led to decreased bevacizumab unbound concentrations, increased R levels and shortened PFS and OS, while increasing bevacizumab dose led to decreased R and longer survival.

CONCLUSION: This study is the first to demonstrate the relationship between bevacizumab concentrations, target involvement and clinical efficacy by effectively mitigating potential sources of bias. Most of the target amount may be tumoural in mCRC. Future studies should provide a more in-depth description of this relationship.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:90

Enthalten in:

British journal of clinical pharmacology - 90(2024), 4 vom: 01. März, Seite 976-986

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Lobet, Sarah [VerfasserIn]
Caulet, Morgane [VerfasserIn]
Paintaud, Gilles [VerfasserIn]
Azzopardi, Nicolas [VerfasserIn]
Desvignes, Céline [VerfasserIn]
Chautard, Romain [VerfasserIn]
Borg, Christophe [VerfasserIn]
Capitain, Olivier [VerfasserIn]
Ferru, Aurélie [VerfasserIn]
Bouché, Olivier [VerfasserIn]
Lecomte, Thierry [VerfasserIn]
Ternant, David [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

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Bevacizumab
Exposure‐response relationship
Fluorouracil
Journal Article
Metastatic colorectal cancer
Pharmacokineticstarget‐mediated drug disposition
U3P01618RT
Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor A

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Date Completed 29.03.2024

Date Revised 29.03.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1111/bcp.15983

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM365636371