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Blood, 19 March 2009, Vol. 113, No. 12, pp. 2637-2645. Prepublished online as a Blood First Edition Paper on November 3, 2008; DOI 10.1182/blood-2008-07-168583.
Submitted July 16, 2008
Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States * Corresponding author; email: michael.grever{at}osumc.edu.
We previously reported interim results of a phase I trial in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) whereby flavopiridol was administered intravenously as a 30-minute bolus followed by 4-hour infusion. We now report full pharmacokinetic (PK) data, correlations of PK with clinical outcomes, and final response and progression-free survival (PFS). Twenty-one of 52 patients (40%) with relapsed CLL achieved a partial response (PR) with a median PFS of 12 months. Responders included 17/43 fludarabine refractory patients (40%), 7/18 patients (39%) with del(17p13) and 14/19 patients (74%) with del(11q22). Six responders received repeat therapy at relapse, and 5 responded again with a second median PFS of 10 months. Non-compartmental analysis and nonlinear mixed effects modeling was used to estimate PK parameters and evaluate covariates. Two-compartment population parameter estimates were 31.4 L/h, 65.8 L, 8.49 L/h, and 157 L for CL, V1, Q and V2, respectively. Flavopiridol area under the plasma concentration-time curve (AUC) correlated with clinical response and cytokine release syndrome, and glucuronide metabolite AUC correlated with tumor lysis syndrome. These composite results confirm high activity of this pharmacokinetically-derived schedule in relapsed, genetically high-risk CLL. Furthermore, PK appears to describe some, but not all, variability in response and toxicity. This study is registered at http://www.clinicaltrials.gov as study ID NCI-5746.
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