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Kinetics of haematopoietic recovery after dose‐intensive chemo/radiotherapy in mice: optimized erythroid support with darbepoetin alpha

Despite its frequency and impact on clinical outcomes, anaemia in cancer patients remains poorly understood and suboptimally treated. The definition of optimum treatment schedules with erythropoietic agents requires a suitable model of chemotherapy‐induced progressive anaemia. This study investigate...

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Published in:British journal of haematology 2003-08, Vol.122 (4), p.623-636
Main Authors: Hartley, Cynthia, Elliott, Steve, Begley, C. Glenn, McElroy, Patricia, Sutherland, Weston, Khaja, Raheem, Heatherington, Anne C., Graves, Tom, Schultz, Henry, Del Castillo, Juan, Molineux, Graham
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Summary:Despite its frequency and impact on clinical outcomes, anaemia in cancer patients remains poorly understood and suboptimally treated. The definition of optimum treatment schedules with erythropoietic agents requires a suitable model of chemotherapy‐induced progressive anaemia. This study investigated novel strategies such as once‐per‐chemotherapy‐cycle dosing, synchronization between erythroid supportive care and chemotherapy, and definition of the optimum timing of erythroid support. A murine model of carboplatin chemotherapy/radiotherapy (CRT)‐induced anaemia was used, which caused progressive anaemia across multiple cycles. Weekly administration of recombinant human erythropoietin (rHuEPO) was effective, but the longer‐acting darbepoetin alpha resulted in superior responses. In all animals, anaemia became progressive and more refractory across cycles because of accumulated bone marrow damage. Exploiting a specific enzyme‐linked immunosorbent assay, which could distinguish between darbepoetin alpha and endogenous erythropoietin, the effect of CRT upon the pharmacokinetics of darbepoetin alpha showed that clearance of darbepoetin alpha, and presumably erythropoietin, was at least partially dependent on a chemotherapy‐sensitive pathway. Scheduling data suggested that administration of erythropoietic agents prior to chemotherapy was more effective than administration after chemotherapy. There was no evidence that erythropoietic agents exacerbated anaemia, even when administered immediately prior to CRT in an attempt to ‘prime’ erythroid cells for the effects of CRT.
ISSN:0007-1048
1365-2141
DOI:10.1046/j.1365-2141.2003.04467.x