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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 />
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