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Pharmacokinetics of the cardioprotector ADR-529 (ICRF-187) in escalating doses combined with fixed-dose doxorubicin.

BACKGROUND: Although doxorubicin is an anticancer agent with a wide spectrum of activity, therapy with this anthracycline must often be discontinued at a time of benefit to the patient because of the drug's cumulative cardiotoxicity. ICRF-187 (ADR-529, dexrazoxane) is a bisdioxopiperazine compound that protects against cardiac toxicity induced by doxorubicin. PURPOSE: Our objectives in this study were to determine the maximum tolerated dose of ADR-529 (which uses a different vehicle than ICRF-187) when given with a fixed doxorubicin dose and to determine whether ADR-529 alters doxorubicin pharmacokinetics. METHODS: Twenty-five patients were treated with doxorubicin (60 mg/m2) preceded by administration of ADR-529 in escalating dosages (i.e., 60, 300, 600, 750, and 900 mg/m2) to groups of three to nine patients. ADR-529 was administered over a 15-minute period beginning 30 minutes before doxorubicin treatment; the protocol was repeated every 3 weeks. Blood was sampled frequently for drug levels, which were determined by high-pressure liquid chromatography with fluorescence (doxorubicin) and electrochemical detection (ADR-529). RESULTS: Dose-limiting neutropenia occurred in four of six previously treated patients at an ADR-529 dose of 600 mg/m2; the dose ratio of ADR-529 to doxorubicin was 10:1. For three additional patients with better Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance status and a maximum of one prior chemotherapy regimen, 600 mg/m2 was tolerated, but grade 3 or 4 neutropenia occurred in four of six patients who received an ADR-529 dose of 900 mg/m2 and in three of four patients at a dose of 750 mg/m2. Doxorubicin's estimated terminal half-life was 39.5 +/- 18.3 (mean +/- SD) hours; the area under the curve for plasma concentration of drug x time (AUC) was 1.74 +/- 0.40 (micrograms/microL) x hour. Total-body clearance was 598 +/- 142 microL/m2 per minute (N = 20), and it did not vary with ADR-529 dose. Estimated distribution and elimination phase half-lives for plasma ADR-529 were 0.46 +/- 0.30 hours and 4.16 +/- 2.94 hours, respectively. Total-body clearance was 111 +/- 87 microL/m2 per minute (N = 18); AUC was linear (r2 = .92), and the clearance rate was constant (r2 = .18) from 60 to 900 mg/m2. CONCLUSIONS: Myelotoxicity was dose limiting for ADR-529 at 600-750 mg/m2 when given with a fixed dose of doxorubicin at 60 mg/m2 (dose ratios of ADR-529 to doxorubicin ranged from 10:1 to 12.5:1). When used in combination, ADR-529 did not perturb doxorubicin's distribution, metabolism, or excretion; therefore, other mechanisms of cardioprotection must be involved. IMPLICATIONS: We recommend that an ADR-529 dose of 600 mg/m2 be given with single-agent doxorubicin at a dose of 60 mg/m2 in future studies.[1]

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  1. Pharmacokinetics of the cardioprotector ADR-529 (ICRF-187) in escalating doses combined with fixed-dose doxorubicin. Hochster, H., Liebes, L., Wadler, S., Oratz, R., Wernz, J.C., Meyers, M., Green, M., Blum, R.H., Speyer, J.L. J. Natl. Cancer Inst. (1992) [Pubmed]
 
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