Bayesian dose‐regimen assessment in early phase oncology incorporating pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics
Résumé
Phase I dose-finding trials in oncology seek to find the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) of a drug under a specific schedule. Evaluating drug-schedules aims at improving treatment safety while maintaining eÿcacy. However, while we can reasonably assume that toxicity increases with the dose for cytotoxic drugs, the relationship between toxicity and multiple schedules remains elusive. We proposed a Bayesian dose-regimen assessment method (DRtox) using pharma-cokinetics/pharmacodynamics (PK/PD) information to estimate the maximum tolerated dose-regimen (MTD-regimen), at the end of the dose-escalation stage of a trial to be recommended for the next phase. We modeled the binary toxicity via a PD endpoint and estimated the dose-regimen toxicity relationship through the integration of a dose-regimen PD model and a PD toxicity model. For the dose-regimen PD model, we considered nonlinear mixed-e˙ects models, and for the PD toxicity model, we proposed the following two Bayesian approaches: a logistic model and a hierarchical model. We evaluated the operating characteristics of the DRtox through simulation studies under various scenarios. The results showed that our method outperforms traditional model-based designs demonstrating a higher percentage of correctly selecting the MTD-regimen. Moreover, the inclusion of PK/PD information in the DRtox helped provide more precise estimates for the entire dose-regimen toxicity curve; therefore the DRtox may recommend alternative untested regimens for expansion cohorts. The DRtox should be applied at the end of the dose-escalation stage of an ongoing trial for pa-tients with relapsed or refractory acute myeloid leukemia (NCT03594955) once all toxicity and PK/PD data are collected.
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