Journal
INVESTIGATIONAL NEW DRUGS
Volume 30, Issue 4, Pages 1557-1565Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10637-011-9723-4
Keywords
Capecitabine; Clinical pharmacology; Everolimus; mTOR; Pharmacokinetics; Phase I
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- Academic Medical Center Amsterdam
- Netherlands Cancer Institute
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Background Everolimus is an oral mTOR-inhibitor. Preclinical data show synergistic effects of mTOR inhibition in combination with 5-fluorouracil-based anticancer therapy. The combination of everolimus with capecitabine seems therefore an attractive new, orally available, treatment regimen. Patients and methods Safety, preliminary efficacy and pharmacokinetics of everolimus in combination with capecitabine were investigated in patients with advanced solid malignancies. Patients were treated with fixed dose everolimus 10 mg/day continuously, plus capecitabine bid for 14 days in three-weekly cycles. Dose escalation of capecitabine proceeded according to the standard 3 x 3 phase I design in four predefined dose levels (500-1,000 mg/m(2) bid). Results In total, 18 patients were enrolled. Median (range) treatment duration with everolimus was 70 days (21-414). Capecitabine 1,000 mg/m(2) bid combined with 10 mg/day everolimus was declared the maximum tolerated dose, at which level one patient developed dose-limiting toxicity (stomatitis grade 3). Drug-related adverse events were mostly grade a parts per thousand currency sign2 and included mainly fatigue (56%), stomatitis (50%), and hand-foot syndrome (33%). Partial response was documented in three patients, and four had stable disease. There was no pharmacokinetic interaction between everolimus and capecitabine. Conclusion Everolimus 10 mg/day continuously combined with capecitabine 1,000 mg/m(2) bid for 14 days every 3 weeks is a patient-convenient, safe and tolerable oral treatment regimen. This is the first study to demonstrate feasibility of this combination at doses with proven single agent efficacy in a number of tumors. Prolonged clinical benefit was observed in an encouraging 39% of patients with advanced solid malignancies.
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