Tumor Static Concentration Curves in Combination Therapy
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2017

Combination therapies are widely accepted as a cornerstone for treatment of different cancer types. A tumor growth inhibition (TGI) model is developed for combinations of cetuximab and cisplatin obtained from xenograft mice. Unlike traditional TGI models, both natural cell growth and cell death are considered explicitly. The growth rate was estimated to 0.006 h−1 and the natural cell death to 0.0039 h−1 resulting in a tumor doubling time of 14 days. The tumor static concentrations (TSC) are predicted for each individual compound. When the compounds are given as single-agents, the required concentrations were computed to be 506 μg · mL−1 and 56 ng · mL−1 for cetuximab and cisplatin, respectively. A TSC curve is constructed for different combinations of the two drugs, which separates concentration combinations into regions of tumor shrinkage and tumor growth. The more concave the TSC curve is, the lower is the total exposure to test compounds necessary to achieve tumor regression. The TSC curve for cetuximab and cisplatin showed weak concavity. TSC values and TSC curves were estimated that predict tumor regression for 95% of the population by taking between-subject variability into account. The TSC concept is further discussed for different concentration-effect relationships and for combinations of three or more compounds.

mixture dynamics

tumor xenograft

oncology

model-based drug development

pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic modeling

Författare

Tim Cardilin

Göteborgs universitet

Chalmers, Matematiska vetenskaper, Matematik

Joachim E Almqvist

Chalmers, Biologi och bioteknik, Systembiologi

Mats Jirstrand

Stiftelsen Fraunhofer-Chalmers Centrum för Industrimatematik

A. Sostelly

Merck KGaA

F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG

C. Amendt

Merck KGaA

S. El Bawab

Merck KGaA

Johan Gabrielsson

Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet (SLU)

AAPS Journal

1550-7416 (eISSN)

Vol. 19 2 456-467

Ämneskategorier

Farmaceutisk vetenskap

Beräkningsmatematik

Bioinformatik (beräkningsbiologi)

Styrkeområden

Livsvetenskaper och teknik (2010-2018)

DOI

10.1208/s12248-016-9991-1

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