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Table 3 Clinical pharmakokinetic profiles of TKI marketed in the EU

From: Clinical pharmacology of tyrosine kinase inhibitors becoming generic drugs: the regulatory perspective

TKI

tmax(h)

Bioavailability (oral, %)

Concomitant food intake effect on bioavailability

Concomitant food intake: FDA recommendation

V (L/kg) 70-kg subject assumed

Primary enzymes involved in metabolism

Major metabolites

Plasma half-life (h)

Plasma protein binding (%)

Suggested threshold for response or concentration attained in therapy (mg/L)

Bosutinib

6

18 [20] derived from colon tumor xenograft models

 

With food

131-214 [21]

CYP3A4

M2 (oxydechlorinated Bosutinib) M5 (N-desmethyl Bosutinib)

 

94-96

 

Dasatinib

0.5–3

<34

Increases AUC (14%)

With/without food

30-40

CYP3A4, FMO-3

M4 (BMS-582691), M5 (BMS-606181), M6 (BMS-573188)

3–5

92–97

0.01–0.1 [22]

Erlotinib

4

69-76

Increases bioavailability (24%–31%)

Without food

3

CYP3A4, CYP3A5, CYP1A2

NorErlotinib (OSI-420)

41

92-95

>0.5

Gefitinib

3-7

57

No effect

With/without food

24

CYP3A4, CYP2D6, CYP3A5 (possibly CYP1A1)

NorGefitinib (M523595)

48

79

>0.2

Imatinib

2–4

98

No effect

With food

2–6 (Imatinib), 15–40 (NorImatinib)

CYP3A4, CYP3A5, CYP2C8

NorImatinib (CGP74588)

12–20 (Imatinib), 40–74 (NorImatinib)

95 (Imatinib and NorImatinib)

>1 (CML and GIST)

Lapatinib

3-5

-

Increases AUC (167%–325%)

Without food

31

CYP3A4, CYP3A5

Norlapatinib (GW690006)

14

>99

>0.5 mean concentration in patients prescribed 1500 mg once daily [23]

Nilotinib

3

30

Increases Cmax (112%) and AUC (82%)

Without food

10–15

CYP3A4, CYP2C8

-

15–17

98

>0.6 Cmin concentration applicable to quartile 1 from cytogenetic response [24]

Pazopanib

2.8

14-39

Increases AUC and Cmax (2-fold)

Without food

0.1-0.2

CYP3A4, CYP1A2, CYP2C8

Pazopanib M24, Pazopanib M26, Pazopanib M27

31

>99

>20

Ponatinib

   

With/without food

 

CYP3A4 (MRI PI)

inactive carboxylic acid

 

>99

 

Sorafenib

2-14

<50

Reduces bioavailability (29%)

Without food

3-6

CYP3A4, UGT1A9

Norsorafenib, Sorafenib N-oxide (BAY 67 3472)

20-40

>99

>3

Sunitinib

6-12

-

No effect

With/without food

30

CYP3A4

Norsunitinib (SU12662)

40–60 (Sunitinib), 80–110 (Norsunitinib)

95 (Sunitinib), 90 (Norsunitinib)

>0.05 (Sunitinib + Norsunitinib)

TKI

DLT

MTD

Clinical dose (as recommended by SmPC)

Dosage form

Human AUC at the clinical dose (ng*h/ml)

In vitro IC 50 values for target kinase inhibitor (ng/ml)

Dose-reduction

Liver

renal

Bosutinib

Grade 3 diarrhea, grade 3 rash [25]

500 mg, q.d

500 mg, q.d.

Tablet

2740 ± 790

250 nM [26]

 

Yes

Dasatinib

Grade 3 nausea, grade 3 fatigue, grade 3 rash [27]

>120 mg b.i.d

100 mg, q.d. (for chronic phase), 70 mg, b.i.d. (for accelerated phase and blast phase)

Tablet

398.8 (b.i.d. regimen)

0.0976

No, only in severe liver impairment

No

Erlotinib

Diarrhea [28]

150 mg, q.d.

150 mg, q.d.

Tablet

42679

0.787 [29]

No

No

Gefitinib

Nausea, diarrhea, vomiting, rash

700 mg, q.d.

250 mg, q.d.

Tablet

7251.5

12.1 [30]

No, only in severe liver impairment

No

Imatinib

Nausea, vomiting, fatigue, diarrhea

>1000 mg, b.i.d.

400 mg, q.d

Tablet

33200

12.3 [31]

Yes

No

Lapatinib

Rash, diarrhea, fatigue

1800 mg, q.d.

1250 mg, q.d.

Tablet

33836.5

6.02 [32]

Yes

No, only in severe renal impairment

Nilotinib

Liver function abnormalities, thrombocytopenia [33]

600 mg, b.i.d.

400 mg, b.i.d. (for chronic-phase and accelerated-phase of chronic myelogenous leukemia), 300 mg, b.i.d. (for newly diagnosed chronic-phase myelogenous leukemia)

Capsule

19000 (b.i.d. regimen)

not available

No

No

Pazopanib

Grade 3 aspartate aminotransferase (AST)/alanine aminotransferase (ALT) elevations, grade 3 malaise [34]

800 mg, q.d. [35, 36]

800 mg, q.d.

Tablet

650 ± 500 μg*h/ml

10, 30, 47, 71, 84 or 74 nM

Yes

No

Ponatinib

Rash, fatigue

45 mg, q.d

45 mg, q.d.

Tablet

77 (50%) or 1296 (48%)

0.4 or 2.0 nM

Yes

No

Sorafenib

Hand-foot skin syndrome (HFS) [37]

600 mg, b.i.d.

400 mg, b.i.d.

Tablet

36690 (b.i.d. regimen)

7.79 [38]

No

No

Sunitinib

Grade 3 fatigue, grade 3 hypertension, grade 2 bullous skin toxicity (HFS) [39]

50 mg, q.d.

50 mg, q.d.

Capsule

1406

0.797

No, only in severe liver impairment

No

  1. AUC, area under the curve; b.i.d., twice daily; DLT, dose limiting toxicity; MTD, maximum tolerated dose; q.d., every day; tmax, time after administration when Cmax is reached; Source of information: Summaries of Product Characteristics (SmPCs) of marketed TKI [16] unless otherwise indicated.