Abstract
BackgroundLorlatinib demonstrated efficacy (including intracranial activity) in patients with anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK)-positive non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in a phase I/II study (NCT01970865).Background and ObjectiveThis analysis describes the pharmacokinetics (PK) of lorlatinib following single and multiple dosing.MethodsThis ongoing, multicenter, open-label, single-arm, phase I/II trial enrolled patients with ALK-positive or c-ros oncogene 1 (ROS1)-positive advanced NSCLC. In phase I, patients received escalating doses of lorlatinib (10–200 mg orally once daily) and twice-daily doses of 35, 75, and 100 mg in continuous 21-day cycles. In phase II, lorlatinib was administered at a starting dose of 100 mg once daily in continuous 21-day cycles. Parameters investigated included the potential for lorlatinib to inhibit/induce cytochrome P450 (CYP) 3A; the absorption/metabolism of lorlatinib and its major metabolite PF-06895751; and differences in these parameters between Asian and non-Asian patients.ResultsData were available for 54 patients from phase I and 275 patients from phase II. Lorlatinib plasma exposure increased dose proportionally after single doses of 10–200 mg, and slightly less than dose proportionally after multiple doses. Lorlatinib clearance increased following multiple dosing compared with single dosing, indicating autoinduction. The area under the concentration-time curve from time zero to time τ (the dosing interval; AUCτ) of PF-06895751 was approximately 80% higher than that of lorlatinib after multiple dosing. Lorlatinib exhibited brain penetration. Furthermore, no overt differences in single- and multiple-dose PK parameters between the Asian and non-Asian patients were observed.ConclusionsLorlatinib is highly brain penetrant and exhibits autoinduction after multiple dosing. There appears to be no inherent differences in lorlatinib PK between healthy subjects and cancer patients, or between Asian and non-Asian patients.ClinicalTrials.gov NCT01970865.Supplementary InformationThe online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s40262-021-01015-z.
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