Variability in the pharmacokinetics of epirubicin: a population analysis
| Autor: | Janet R. Wade, Brian Whiting, Andrew W. Kelman, Jacques Robert, David J. Kerr |
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| Rok vydání: | 1992 |
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Male Cancer Research Aging Time Factors Central compartment Population Alpha (ethology) Physiology Renal function Breast Neoplasms Pharmacology Toxicology Models Biological Pharmacokinetics medicine Humans Pharmacology (medical) education Chromatography High Pressure Liquid Aged Epirubicin education.field_of_study Sex Characteristics business.industry Sarcoma Middle Aged Hodgkin Disease NONMEM Pharmacokinetic analysis Oncology Linear Models Female business medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Cancer chemotherapy and pharmacology. 29(5) |
| ISSN: | 0344-5704 |
| Popis: | Population pharmacokinetic analysis of the anticancer agent epirubicin was carried out using the program NONMEM. Data were available from 36 patients aged 20–73 years, of whom 23 were women. All subjects exhibited normal liver and renal function. Epirubicin was given as a short-term i. v. infusion over the dose range of 25–100 mg/m2, and an average of 11 plasma samples/subject were taken for a period of up to 72 h after each dose. A Two compartment model was fitted to the data, characterised by the parameters clearance, volume of the central compartment, alpha and beta. Clearance was tested as a linear function of various demographic and/or biochemical features. A significant proportion of the variability in clearance could be attributed to sex, and also to age in women. For example, a 25-year-old man would display an average clearance of 95 l/h, whereas a 70-year-old woman would exhibit an average clerance of 64 l/h. Such differences in clearance might be important in the selection of epirubicin dose regimens. |
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