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Bosutinib

BCR-ABL tyrosine kinase inhibitors

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Therapeutic class
BCR-ABL tyrosine kinase inhibitors
Action class
Kinase Inhibitor
Mechanism
Bcr-Abl Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors
Habit forming
No
Availability
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Brand names

Bosulif

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100 MG · Oral Tablet500 MG · Oral Tablet400 MG · Oral Tablet100 MG · Oral Capsule50 MG · Oral Capsule

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Uses
1 INDICATIONS AND USAGE Bosutinib tablets are indicated for the treatment of: • Adult patients with chronic phase (CP) Philadelphia chromosome-positive chronic myelogenous leukemia (Ph+ CML), resistant or intolerant to prior therapy [see Clinical Studies (14.2)]. • Adult patients with accelerated phase (AP), or blast phase (BP) Ph+ CML with resistance or intolerance to prior therapy [see Clinical Studies (14.2)] . Pediatric use information is approved for PF PRISM CV’s BOSULIF® (bosutinib) tablets. However, due to PF PRISM CV’s marketing exclusivity rights, this drug product is not labeled with that information. Bosutinib is a kinase inhibitor indicated for the treatment of: • adult patients with chronic phase Ph+ chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML), resistant or intolerant to prior therapy. ( 1 ) • adult patients with accelerated, or blast phase Ph+ CML with resistance or intolerance to prior therapy. ( 1 )
How it works
12.1 Mechanism of Action Bosutinib is a TKI. Bosutinib inhibits the BCR-ABLkinase that promotes CML; it is also an inhibitor of Src-family kinases including Src, Lyn, and Hck. Bosutinib inhibited 16 of 18 imatinib-resistant forms of BCR-ABL kinase expressed in murine myeloid cell lines. Bosutinib did not inhibit the T315I and V299L mutant cells.
How to use / dosing
2 DOSAGE AND ADMINISTRATION • Adult patients with chronic, accelerated, or blast phase Ph+ CML with resistance or intolerance to prior therapy: 500 mg orally once daily with food. ( 2.1 ) • Consider dose escalation by increments of 100 mg once daily to a maximum of 600 mg daily in adult patients who do not reach complete hematologic, cytogenetic, or molecular response and do not have Grade 3 or greater adverse reactions. ( 2.2 ) • Adjust dosage for toxicity and organ impairment ( 2 ) 2.1 Recommended Dosage The recommended dosage is taken orally once daily with food. Swallow tablets whole. Do not cut, crush, break or chew tablets. Continue treatment with bosutinib tablets until disease progression or intolerance to therapy. If a dose is missed beyond 12 hours, the patient should skip the dose and take the usual prescribed dose on the following day. Dosage in Adult Patients with CP, AP, or BP Ph+ CML with Resistance or Intolerance to Prior Therapy The recommended dosage of bosutinib tablet is 500 mg orally once daily with food. Pediatric use information is approved for PF PRISM CV’s BOSULIF® (bosutinib) tablets. However, due to PF PRISM CV’s marketing exclusivity rights, this drug product is not labeled with that information. 2.2 Dose Escalation In clinical studies of adult patients with Ph+ CML, dose escalation by increments of 100 mg once daily to a maximum of 600 mg once daily was allowed in patients who did not achieve or maintain a hematologic, cytogenetic, or molecular response and who did not have Grade 3 or higher adverse reactions at the recommended starting dosage. The maximum dose in adult patients is 600 mg once daily. Pediatric use information is approved for PF PRISM CV’s BOSULIF® (bosutinib) tablets. However, due to PF PRISM CV’s marketing exclusivity rights, this drug product is not labeled with that information. 2.3 Dosage Adjustments for Non-Hematologic Adverse Reactions Elevated liver transaminases: If elevations in liver transaminases greater than 5×institutional upper limit of normal (ULN) occur, withhold bosutinib tablets until recovery to less than or equal to 2.5×ULN and resume at 400 mg once daily thereafter. If recovery takes longer than 4 weeks, discontinue bosutinib tablets. If transaminase elevations greater than or equal to 3×ULN occur concurrently with bilirubin elevations greater than 2×ULN and alkaline phosphatase less than 2×ULN (Hy’s law case definition), discontinue bosutinib tablets [see Warnings and Precautions (5.3)]. Diarrhea: For National Cancer Institute Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (NCI CTCAE) Grade 3 to 4 diarrhea (increase of greater than or equal to 7 stools/day over baseline/pretreatment), withhold bosutinib tablets until recovery to Grade less than or equal to 1. Bosutinib tablets may be resumed at 400 mg once daily [see Warnings and Precautions (5.1)] . For other clinically significant, moderate or severe non-hematological toxicity, withhold bosutinib tablets until the toxicity has resolved, then consider resuming bosutinib tablets at a dose reduced by 100 mg taken once daily. If clinically appropriate, consider re-escalating the dose of bosutinib tablets to the starting dose taken once daily. Pediatric use information is approved for PF PRISM CV’s BOSULIF® (bosutinib) tablets. However, due to PF PRISM CV’s marketing exclusivity rights, this drug product is not labeled with that information. 2.4 Dosage Adjustments for Myelosuppression Dose reductions for severe or persistent neutropenia and thrombocytopenia are described below (Table 3). Table 3: Dose Adjustments for Neutropenia and Thrombocytopenia in Adult Patients ANC a less than 1000 x10 6 /L or Platelets less than 50,000 x10 6 /L Withhold bosutinib tablets until ANC greater than or equal to 1000x10 6 /L and platelets greater than or equal to 50,000x10 6 /L. Resume treatment with bosutinib tablets at the same dose if recovery occurs within 2 weeks. If blood counts remain low for greater than 2 weeks, upon rec
Side effects
6 ADVERSE REACTIONS The following clinically significant adverse reactions are discussed in greater detail in other sections of the labeling: Gastrointestinal toxicity [see Warnings and Precautions (5.1)] . Myelosuppression [see Warnings and Precautions (5.2)] . Hepatic toxicity [see Warnings and Precautions (5.3)] . Cardiovascular toxicity [see Warnings and Precautions (5.4)]. Fluid retention [see Warnings and Precautions (5.5)] . Renal toxicity [see Warnings and Precautions ( 5.6)] . • Most common adverse reactions (≥20%), in adult patients with CML are diarrhea, abdominal pain, vomiting, nausea, rash, fatigue, hepatic dysfunction, headache, pyrexia, and respiratory tract infection. The most common laboratory abnormalities (≥20%) in adult patients are creatinine increased, hemoglobin decreased, lymphocyte count decreased, platelets decreased, ALT increased, calcium decreased, white blood cell count decreased, AST increased, absolute neutrophil count decreased, glucose increased, phosphorus decreased, urate increased, alkaline phosphatase increased, lipase increased, creatine kinase increased, and amylase increased. ( 6.1 ) To report SUSPECTED ADVERSE REACTIONS, contact Alembic Pharmaceuticals Limited at 1-866-210-9797 or FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088 or www.fda.gov/medwatch. 6.1 Clinical Trials Experience Because clinical trials are conducted under widely varying conditions, adverse reaction rates observed in the clinical trials of a drug cannot be directly compared to rates in the clinical trials of another drug and may not reflect the rates observed in practice. The most common adverse reactions, in ≥20% of adults with resistance or intolerance to prior therapy (N=814) were diarrhea (80%), rash (44%), nausea (44%), abdominal pain (43%), vomiting (33%), fatigue (33%), hepatic dysfunction (33%), respiratory tract infection (25%), pyrexia (24%), and headache (21%). The most common laboratory abnormalities that worsened from baseline in ≥20% of adults were creatinine increased (93%), hemoglobin decreased (90%), lymphocyte count decreased (72%), platelets decreased (69%), ALT increased (58%), calcium decreased (53%), white blood cell count decreased (52%), absolute neutrophils count decreased (50%), AST increased (50%), glucose increased (46%), phosphorus decreased (44%), urate increased (41%), alkaline phosphatase increased (40%), lipase increased (36%), creatine kinase increased (29%), and amylase increased (24%). Adverse Reactions in Adult Patients With Imatinib-Resistant or-Intolerant Ph+ CP, AP, and BP CML The single-arm clinical trial enrolled patients with Ph+ CP, AP and BP CML and with resistance or intolerance to prior therapy [see Clinical Studies (14.2)]. The safety population (received at least 1 dose of bosutinib tablets) included 546 CML patients: • two hundred eighty-four (284) patients with CP CML previously treated with imatinib only who had a median duration of bosutinib tablets treatment of 26 months (range: 0.2 to 155 months), and a median dose intensity of 437 mg/day. • one hundred and nineteen (119) patients with CP CML previously treated with both imatinib and at least 1 additional tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) who had a median duration of bosutinib tablets treatment of 9 months (range: 0.2 to 148 months), and a median dose intensity of 427 mg/day. • one hundred forty three (143) patients with advanced phase (AdvP) CML including 79 patients with AP CML and 64 patients with BP CML. In the patients with AP CML and BP CML, the median duration of bosutinib tablets treatment was 10 months (range: 0.1 to 140 months) and 3 months (range: 0.03 to 71 months), respectively. The median dose intensity was 406 mg/day, and 456 mg/day, in the AP CML and BP CML cohorts, respectively. Serious adverse reactions occurred in 30% of patients in the safety population of the single-arm trial in patients with CML (N=546) who were resistant or intolerant to prior therapy. Serious adverse reactions reported in >2% of patients included p

Safety advice

Conservative summary derived from FDA labeling — defaults to “consult your doctor” unless the label is explicit. Not a substitute for your clinician’s advice.

PregnancyUnsafe
8.1 Pregnancy Risk Summary Based on findings from animal studies and its mechanism of action, bosutinib tablets can cause fetal harm when administered to a pregnant woman [see Clinical Pharmacology (12.1)] . There are no available data in pregnant women to inform the drug-associated risk. In animal reproduction studies conducted in rats and rabbits, oral administration of bosutinib during organogenesis caused adverse developmental outcomes, including structural abnormalities, embryo-fetal mortality, and alterations to growth at maternal exposures (AUC) as low as 1.2 times the human exposure at the dose of 500 mg/day (see Data ) . Advise pregnant women of the potential risk to a fetus. The background risk of major birth defects and miscarriage for the indicated population is unknown. All pregnancies have a background risk of birth defect, loss, or other adverse outcomes. In the U.S. general population, the estimated background risk of major birth defects and miscarriage in clinically recognized pregnancies are 2 to 4% and 15 to 20%, respectively. Data Animal Data In a rat fertility and early embryonic development study, bosutinib was administered orally to female rats for approximately 3 to 6 weeks, depending on day of mating (2 weeks prior to cohabitation with untreated breeder males until gestation day [GD] 7). Increased embryonic resorptions occurred at greater than or equal to 10 mg/kg/day of bosutinib (1.6 and 1.2 times the human exposure at the recommended doses of 400 or 500 mg/day, respectively), and decreased implantations and reduced number of viable embryos at 30 mg/kg/day of bosutinib (3.4 and 2.5 times the human exposure at the recommended doses of 400 or 500 mg/day, respectively). In an embryo-fetal development study conducted in rabbits, bosutinib was administered orally to pregnant animals during the period of organogenesis at doses of 3, 10 and 30 mg/kg/day. At the maternally-toxic dose of 30 mg/kg/day of bosutinib, there were fetal anomalies (fused sternebrae, and 2 fetuses had various visceral observations), and an approximate 6% decrease in fetal body weight. The dose of 30 mg/kg/day resulted in exposures (AUC) approximately 5.1 and 3.8 times the human exposures at the recommended doses of 400 and 500 mg/day, respectively. Fetal exposure to bosutinib-derived radioactivity during pregnancy was demonstrated in a placental-transfer study in pregnant rats. In a rat pre-and postnatal development study, bosutinib was administered orally to pre
BreastfeedingConsult your doctor
8 USE IN SPECIFIC POPULATIONS Lactation: Advise women not to breastfeed.…
AlcoholNo information
No specific information in the FDA label.
DrivingNo information
No specific information in the FDA label.
KidneyCaution
…Renal Toxicity: Monitor patients for renal function at baseline and during therapy with bosutinib tablets.…
LiverConsult your doctor
…Dosage Adjustments for Non-Hematologic Adverse Reactions Elevated liver transaminases: If elevations in liver transaminases greater than 5×institutional upper limit of normal (ULN) occur, withhold bosutinib tablets until recovery to less than or equal to…
Warnings & precautions
5 WARNINGS AND PRECAUTIONS • Gastrointestinal Toxicity: Monitor and manage as necessary. Withhold, dose reduce, or discontinue bosutinib tablets. ( 2.3 , 5.1 ) • Myelosuppression: Monitor blood counts and manage as necessary. Withhold, dose reduce or discontinue bosutinib tablets ( 2.4 , 5.2 ) • Hepatic Toxicity: Monitor liver enzymes at least monthly for the first 3 months and as needed. Withhold, dose reduce, or discontinue bosutinib tablets. ( 2.3 , 5.3 ) • Cardiovascular Toxicity: Monitor and manage as necessary. Interrupt, dose reduce, or discontinue bosutinib tablets. ( 5.4 ) • Fluid Retention: Monitor patients and manage using standard of care treatment. Interrupt, dose reduce, or discontinue bosutinib tablets. ( 2.3 , 5.5 ) • Renal Toxicity: Monitor patients for renal function at baseline and during therapy with bosutinib tablets. ( 5.6 ) • Embryo-Fetal Toxicity: Bosutinib tablets can cause fetal harm. Advise female patients of reproductive potential of potential risk to a fetus and to use effective contraception. ( 5.7 ) 5.1 Gastrointestinal Toxicity Diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain occur with bosutinib tablets treatment. Monitor and manage patients using standards of care, including antidiarrheals, antiemetics, and fluid replacement. Among 546 adult patients in a single-arm study in patients with CML who were resistant or intolerant to prior therapy, the median time to onset for diarrhea (all grades) was 2 days and the median duration per event was 2 days. Among the patients who experienced diarrhea, the median number of episodes of diarrhea per patient during treatment with bosutinib tablets was 3 (range 1 to 268). To manage gastrointestinal toxicity, withhold, dose reduce, or discontinue bosutinib tablets as necessary [see Dosage and Administration (2.3) and Adverse Reactions (6)] . Pediatric use information is approved for PF PRISM CV’s BOSULIF® (bosutinib) tablets. However, due to PF PRISM CV’s marketing exclusivity rights, this drug product is not labeled with that information. 5.2 Myelosuppression Thrombocytopenia, anemia and neutropenia occur with bosutinib tablets treatment. Perform complete blood counts weekly for the first month of therapy and then monthly thereafter, or as clinically indicated. To manage myelosuppression, withhold, dose reduce, or discontinue bosutinib tablets as necessary [see Dosage and Administration (2.4) and Adverse Reactions (6)] . 5.3 Hepatic Toxicity Bosutinib may cause elevations in serum transaminases (alanine aminotransferase [ALT], aspartate aminotransferase [AST]). Two cases consistent with drug induced liver injury (defined as concurrent elevations in ALT or AST greater than or equal to 3×ULN with total bilirubin greater than 2×ULN and alkaline phosphatase less than 2×ULN) have occurred without alternative causes. This represented 2 out of 1711 patients in bosutinib tablets clinical trials. Among the 546 adult patients in a single-arm study in patients with CML who were resistant or intolerant to prior therapy, the incidence of increased ALT was 53.3% and AST elevation was 46.7%. Sixty percent of the patients experienced an increase in either ALT or AST. Most cases of transaminase elevations in this study occurred early in treatment; of patients who experienced increased transaminase of any grade, more than 81% experienced their first increase within the first 3 months. The median time to onset of increased ALT and AST was 22 and 29 days, respectively, and the median duration for each was 21 days. Perform hepatic enzyme tests monthly for the first 3 months of bosutinib tablets treatment and as clinically indicated. In patients with transaminase elevations, monitor liver enzymes more frequently. Withhold, dose reduce, or discontinue bosutinib tablets as necessary [see Dosage and Administration (2.3) and Adverse Reactions (6)] . Pediatric use information is approved for PF PRISM CV’s BOSULIF® (bosutinib) tablets. However, due to PF PRISM CV’s marketing exclusivity
Contraindications
4 CONTRAINDICATIONS Bosutinib tablet is contraindicated in patients with a history of hypersensitivity to bosutinib. Reactions have included anaphylaxis [see Adverse Reactions (6.1)] . Hypersensitivity to bosutinib tablets. ( 4 )

Pediatric use

8.4 Pediatric Use The safety and effectiveness of bosutinib tablets in pediatric patients younger than 1 year of age with newly diagnosed CP Ph+ CML, pediatric patients younger than 1 year of age with CP Ph+ CML that is resistant or intolerant to prior therapy, and pediatric patients with AP Ph+ CML or BP Ph+ CML have not been established. Pediatric use information is approved for PF PRISM CV’s BOSULIF® (bosutinib) tablets. However, due to PF PRISM CV’s marketing exclusivity rights, this drug product is not labeled with that information.

⚑ About half of pediatric medication use is off-label and not described in FDA labels — absence of pediatric information does not mean a medicine is unused or unsafe in children. Confirm with your clinician.

Interactions (label text — not an interaction checker)
7 DRUG INTERACTIONS • Strong and Moderate CYP3A Inhibitors: Avoid concomitant use with bosutinib tablets. ( 7.1 ) • Strong CYP3A Inducers: Avoid concomitant use with bosutinib tablets. ( 7.1 ) • Proton Pump Inhibitors: Use short-acting antacids or H2 blockers as an alternative to proton pump inhibitors. ( 7.1 ) 7.1 Effect of Other Drugs on Bosutinib Tablets Strong or Moderate CYP3A Inhibitors Avoid the concomitant use of strong or moderate CYP3A inhibitors with bosutinib tablets. Bosutinib is a CYP3A substrate. Concomitant use with a strong or moderate CYP3A inhibitor increases bosutinib C max and AUC [see Clinical Pharmacology (12.3)] which may increase the risk of toxicities. Strong CYP3A Inducers Avoid the concomitant use of strong CYP3A inducers with bosutinib tablets. Bosutinib is a CYP3A substrate. Concomitant use with a strong CYP3A inducer decreases bosutinib C max and AUC [see Clinical Pharmacology (12.3)] which may reduce bosutinib tablets efficacy. Proton Pump Inhibitors (PPI) As an alternative to PPIs, use short-acting antacids or H2 blockers and separate dosing by more than 2 hours from bosutinib tablets dosing. Bosutinib displays pH dependent aqueous solubility, Concomitant use with a PPI decreases bosutinib C max and AUC [see Clinical Pharmacology (12.3)] which may reduce bosutinib tablets efficacy.
Overdose
10 OVERDOSAGE Experience with bosutinib tablets overdose in clinical studies was limited to isolated cases. There were no reports of any serious adverse events associated with the overdoses. Patients who take an overdose of bosutinib tablets should be observed and given appropriate supportive treatment.
Current FDA labels (DailyMed)

10 marketed products on record (RxNorm)

Reference only — not clinical advice. Verify against current FDA labeling and consult a licensed provider. About half of pediatric drug use is off-label and is not reflected in FDA labels; absence of pediatric information does not mean a medicine is unused or unsafe in children.