In this exclusive webinar, Dr. Ben Locwin will discuss the potential effects of this draft, along with the pharmacological and toxicological considerations for optimizing doses of prescription drugs.
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5. What Does FDA’s Project Optimus Have to Say About
This?
• Project Optimus is designed to challenge
current paradigms in dose selection for
oncology
6. • Ultimately
• Reforming dose optimization and selection in oncology
• Why? Treatment durations are long in oncology
• Risk of higher-than-necessary toxicity is not rare, but common
7. Oncology and Cytotoxicity
• Oncology has existed on the backs of cytotoxic agents, such as platins
• These drugs kill rapidly-dividing cells, often indiscriminately
• The higher the dose, the greater kill of cancer cells
• …and non-cancerous cells
• Hence Dose-Limiting Toxicity (DLT)
8. Paradigm of Dosing with Cytotoxic Drugs
• Regimen determined by physiological response
• Cycles, reductions, holidays, interruptions
9. And cytotoxicities aren’t the only burden for patients
Huff, C. (2023). STAT. https://www.statnews.com/2023/04/10/cancer-treatment-end-of-life-time-toxicity
10. Simulated Phase 1 Study Design
• 3x3 dose escalation
• Assess for safety and up to Maximum Tolerated Dose (MTD)
13. Based on the type of cytotoxic agent, dose-response toxicities
necessarily differ.
Adding to that, efficacy isn’t linear, either!
Toxicity
Efficacy
Finding the right dose, where we can
maximize the balance of efficacy
WITH limiting toxicity for the patient
MTD is not the optimum biologic dose! It’s very likely that
saturation (receptor) dose is lower than the MTD!
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16. • Why?
• Selecting an optimum dose within oncology requires good data from clinical trials
from multiple dose levels in Phase II & III studies
• Comparative assessments of dosing regimes, comparators
• Look for statistical significance
• Modernized therapies, including ADCs, immunotherapies, etc., have saturation
limits which often can be below the MTD; So going to MTD is the wrong approach
• Maximizing efficacy, minimizing toxicity and side effects