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Clinical outcomes of oral metronomic vinorelbine in advanced non-small cell lung cancer: correlations with pharmacokinetics and MDR1 polymorphisms

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Purpose

This study investigated correlations of the clinical outcomes of oral metronomic vinorelbine (VNR) with VNR pharmacokinetics and MDR1 polymorphisms.

Methods

Eighty-two patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) unfit for standard chemotherapy were treated with VNR at the oral doses of 20–30 mg every other day or 50 mg three times a week. They had a performance status (PS) ≤ 3, were > 70-year-old and drug-naïve or cisplatin-pretreated. MDR1 2677G > T and 3435C > T polymorphisms were analysed and blood concentrations of VNR and desacetyl-VNR (dVNR: active metabolite) assayed. Overall survival (OS), treatment duration and drug-related toxicity were the main endpoints.

Results

Median OS and treatment duration were 27 weeks (range 1.3–183) and 15 weeks (range 1.3–144), respectively. OS was directly correlated with the duration of VNR treatment and number of therapy lines after VNR treatment (multiple linear regression: adjusted r2 = 0.71; p < 0.00001). Neither MDR1 genotypes nor VNR/dVNR concentrations predicted OS. VNR blood levels were positively correlated with platelet counts (r2 = 0.12; p = 0.0036). Patients who had long-term benefit (treated for ≥ 6 month without toxicity) showed lower VNR concentrations than those who had not. Twelve patients stopped therapy due to grade 3–4 toxicity. Toxicity was associated with blood concentrations of VNR ≥ 1.57 ng/mL and dVNR ≥ 3.04 ng/mL, but not with MDR1 polymorphisms.

Conclusions

Neither pharmacokinetic nor pharmacogenetic monitoring seem useful to predict OS. On the other hand, high VNR and dVNR blood levels were associated with severe toxicity.

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This study was funded by Lega Italiana Per la Lotta contro i Tumori, LILT-sezione di Rovigo.

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  1. AULSS5 Polesana, UOC Oncologia, Ospedale Santa Maria della Misericordia, viale Tre Martiri, 140, 45100, Rovigo, Italy

    Milena Gusella, Carmen Barile, Yasmina Modena, Laura Bertolaso, Daniela Menon, Giorgio Crepaldi, Antonio Bononi & Giorgia Anna Telatin

  2. Servizio di Oncologia, Ospedale Pederzoli, Peschiera del Garda, Verona, Italy

    Felice Pasini & Anna Paola Fraccon

  3. Dipartimento di Scienze Farmacologiche e Biomolecolari, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

    Donatella Caruso & Roberto Spezzano

  4. Dipartimento di Ricerca Traslazionale, IRCCS Centro di Riferimento Oncologico, Aviano, Italy

    Giuseppe Corona

  5. Servizio di Farmacologia Clinica, Dipartimento di Medicina, Università di Padova, Padua, Italy

    Roberto Padrini

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Gusella, M., Pasini, F., Caruso, D. et al. Clinical outcomes of oral metronomic vinorelbine in advanced non-small cell lung cancer: correlations with pharmacokinetics and MDR1 polymorphisms. Cancer Chemother Pharmacol 83, 493–500 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00280-018-3751-0

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