Phase 1 study to investigate the pharmacokinetic properties of dacomitinib in healthy adult Chinese subjects genotyped for CYP2D6

Abstract

1. This study aimed to characterise the pharmacokinetics of dacomitinib, a pan-human epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitor, and its metabolite, PF-05199265, in healthy Chinese subjects.

2. In this open-label, single-centre, nonrandomised study (NCT02097433), 14 subjects received a single dacomitinib 45-mg oral dose. Pharmacokinetic samples for dacomitinib and PF-05199265 were collected pre- and postdose. Subjects were genotyped for cytochrome P450 (CYP)2D6 metaboliser status. Safety was assessed throughout the study.

3. The geometric mean (per cent coefficient of variability) area under the concentration–time curve from time zero to infinity (AUC_inf) and maximum plasma concentration (C_max) were 1662 ngċh/mL (26%) and 21.51 ng/mL (27%), respectively, for dacomitinib and 469 ngċh/mL (65%) and 5.54 ng/mL (79%) for PF-05199265. Median times to C_max were 8 and 4 h postdose for dacomitinib and PF-05199265, respectively; mean terminal half-life of dacomitinib was 62.7 h. Geometric mean apparent clearance and volume of distribution of dacomitinib were 27.06 L/h and 2415 L, respectively. The metabolite PF-05199265-to-dacomitinib ratios were 0.2907 for AUC_inf and 0.2656 for C_max.

4. Dacomitinib total (AUC_inf) and peak exposures (C_max) were similar among subjects with different CYP2D6 genotypes, whereas both parameters for PF-05199265 were higher in extensive metabolisers (n = 5) versus intermediate metabolisers (n = 8).

Keywords:

• China
• CYP2D6
• dacomitinib
• PF-00299804
• PF-05199265
• pharmacokinetics
• tyrosine kinase inhibitor

Disclosure statement

This work was supported by Pfizer Inc. Dr. Nagdeep Giri is an employee of Pfizer. The work of Xia Chen, Pei Hu, and Ji Jiang was supported by a grant from the Beijing Key Laboratory (Z151100001615061), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 81671369) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 81403015). All other authors report no conflicts of interest.

Editorial support was provided by Meghan Sullivan of inScience Communications, Springer Healthcare (New York, NY, USA), and was funded by Pfizer Inc.