Optimal Scheduling of Bevacizumab and Pemetrexed/Cisplatin Dosing in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

Benjamin K. Schneider, Arnaud Boyer, Joseph Ciccolini, Fabrice Barlesi, Kenneth Wang, Sebastien Benzekry, Jonathan P. Mochel

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Abstract

Bevacizumab-pemetrexed/cisplatin (BEV-PEM/CIS) is a first-line therapeutic for advanced nonsquamous non-small cell lung cancer. Bevacizumab potentiates PEM/CIS cytotoxicity by inducing transient tumor vasculature normalization. BEV-PEM/CIS has a narrow therapeutic window. Therefore, it is an attractive target for administration schedule optimization. The present study leverages our previous work on BEV-PEM/CIS pharmacodynamic modeling in non-small cell lung cancer–bearing mice to estimate the optimal gap in the scheduling of sequential BEV-PEM/CIS. We predicted the optimal gap in BEV-PEM/CIS dosing to be 2.0 days in mice and 1.2 days in humans. Our simulations suggest that the efficacy loss in scheduling BEV-PEM/CIS at too great of a gap is much less than the efficacy loss in scheduling BEV-PEM/CIS at too short of a gap.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)577-586
Number of pages10
JournalCPT: Pharmacometrics and Systems Pharmacology
Volume8
Issue number8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2019
Externally publishedYes

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