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agents are given intermittently in multiple drug regimens, thus preventing repetitive<br />

refinement of dose by multiple dose monitoring over time as done with<br />

many oral agents. More accurate modeling of PK is thus required than the usual<br />

"random blood level" or "peak and trough" strategy used in most instances to<br />

obtain adequate accuracy of dose adjustment. For drugs other than<br />

methotrexate, validated drug assays for monitoring (having standardized precision,<br />

reproducibility, biologic relevance, and rapid result availability) are often<br />

unavailable. These topics are discussed in greater detail elsewhere 111<br />

.<br />

In the field of high-dose chemotherapy with autologous hematopoietic cell<br />

support (HrXVAHCS), antineoplastic drug monitoring might have maximal<br />

justification. Sporadic life-threatening and fatal toxicities are seen, and conventional<br />

prognostic factor analysis poorly defines patients likely to achieve multiyear<br />

tumor-free survival. It is reasonable to hypothesize that variability in drug<br />

exposure might affect toxic and therapeutic outcome in this setting.<br />

Only limited investigations in this area have been reported. Ayash et al.<br />

treated patients with advanced breast cancer with high-dose cyclophosphamide,<br />

carboplatin, and thiotepa (CPA/CBDCA/TT) and demonstrated that CPA PK<br />

correlated with both risk of cardiotoxicity and probability of progression-free<br />

survival 121<br />

. Jones, et al treated similar patients with CPA/cDDP/BCNU and correlated<br />

the risk of acute pulmonary injury with BCNU PK 131<br />

. Groshow et al.<br />

treated patients with high-dose busulfan and cyclophosphamide (Bu/Cy) and<br />

correlated the risk of hepatic veno-occlusive disease (VOD) with BU PK 141<br />

. Importantly,<br />

in subsequent studies she demonstrated that PK-directed dose adjustment<br />

of BU could be used to reduce the incidence of VOD 151<br />

.<br />

With this background, we proposed to perform a comprehensive PK/PD<br />

study of the CPA/cDDP/BCNU regimen. This high-dose regimen is frequently<br />

used in patients with breast cancer and its use is the subject of an NCI high-priority<br />

intergroup trial in patients with St II breast cancer involving 10 or more<br />

axillary lymph nodes. Preliminary data justifying this trial was generated at<br />

Duke University, and showed that 72% of treated patients are projected to remain<br />

progression-free survivors 5 years following treatment 161<br />

. Comparable patients<br />

treated with conventional chemotherapy have a progression-free survival<br />

of 30% in many series. The potency of this regimen and the likelihood of its expanded<br />

use in the future added justification to this investigation.<br />

The doses and schedule of CPA/cDDP/BCNU are shown below:<br />

Day<br />

-6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 0 +1<br />

CPA + + +<br />

1875 mg/m 2<br />

/day<br />

cDDP<br />

55 mg/m<br />

< ><br />

2<br />

/day<br />

BCNU<br />

600 mg/m<br />

+<br />

2<br />

<strong>Marrow</strong> +<br />

Sam INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON AUTOLOGOUS BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION 125

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