Abstract
Kinase inhibitors (KIs) and antiandrogen drugs (AAs) are oral anticancer drugs with narrow therapeutic index that exhibit high inter- and intra-individual variability. We describe here a UPLC-MS/MS method for the simultaneous quantification of nine KIs: cobimetinib, dasatinib, ibrutinib, imatinib, nilotinib, palbociclib, ruxolitinib, sorafenib and vemurafenib; two active metabolites of them: N-desmethyl imatinib, N-oxide sorafenib; and two AAs: abiraterone and enzalutamide; with short pre-treatment and run time in order to be easily used in clinical practice for their therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) and facilitating pharmacokinetics and pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics studies. Plasma samples were prepared by a single-step protein precipitation. Analytes were separated on a Waters Acquity UPLC® T3 HSS C18 column by non-linear gradient elution; with subsequent detection by Xevo® TQD triple quadrupole tandem mass spectrometer in a positive ionization mode. Analysis time was 2.8 min per run, and all analytes eluted within 1.46–1.97 minutes. The analytical performance of the method in terms of specificity, sensitivity, linearity, precision, accuracy, matrix effect, extraction recovery, limit of quantification, dilution integrity and stability of analytes under different conditions met all criteria for a bioanalytical method for the quantification of drugs. The calibration curves were linear over the range of 1−500 ng/mL for abiraterone, dasatinib and ibrutinib; 5−500 ng/mL for cobimetinib and palbociclib; 10−5,000 ng/mL for imatinib, N-desmethyl imatinib, nilotinib, sorafenib, N-oxide sorafenib and ruxolitinib; 100−50,000 ng/mL for enzalutamide and 100−100,000 ng/mL for vemurafenib with coefficient of correlation above 0.995 for all analytes. This novel method was successfully applied to TDM in clinical practice.
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