Germline BRCA-mutated human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 negative metastatic carcinoma of breast

Active Ingredient: Talazoparib

Indication for Talazoparib

Population group: only adults (18 years old or older)
Therapeutic intent: Curative procedure

Talazoparib is indicated as monotherapy for the treatment of adult patients with germline BRCA1/2-mutations, who have HER2-negative locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer. Patients should have been previously treated with an anthracycline and/or a taxane in the (neo)adjuvant, locally advanced or metastatic setting unless patients were not suitable for these treatments. Patients with hormone receptor (HR)-positive breast cancer should have been treated with a prior endocrine-based therapy, or be considered unsuitable for endocrine-based therapy.

For this indication, competent medicine agencies globally authorize below treatments:

1 mg once daily

For:

Dosage regimens

Oral, 1 milligrams talazoparib, once daily.

Detailed description

The recommended dose is 1 mg talazoparib once daily. Patients should be treated until disease progression or unacceptable toxicity occurs.

Missing dose

If the patient vomits or misses a dose, an additional dose should not be taken. The next prescribed dose should be taken at the usual time.

Dose adjustments

To manage adverse drug reactions, interruption of treatment or dose reduction based on severity and clinical presentation should be considered (see Table 1). Recommended dose reduction levels for talazoparib monotherapy are indicated in Table 2.

Complete blood count should be obtained prior to starting talazoparib therapy and monitored monthly and as clinically indicated (see Table 1).

Table 1. Dose adjustments for adverse reactions:

 Withhold talazoparib until
levels resolve to
Resume talazoparib
Haemoglobin <8 g/dL≥9 g/dL Resume talazoparib at next lower
dose
Platelet count <50 000/μL≥75 000/μL
Neutrophil count <1 000/μL≥1 500/μL
Non-haematologic adverse
reaction Grade 3 or Grade 4
≤ Grade 1 Consider resuming talazoparib at
next lower dose or discontinue

Table 2. Dose reduction levels for talazoparib monotherapy:

 Talazoparib dose level
Recommended starting dose 1 mg once daily
First dose reduction0.75 mg once daily
Second dose reduction 0.5 mg once daily
Third dose reduction0.25 mg once daily

Dosage considerations

It can be taken with or without food.

Active ingredient

Talazoparib

Talazoparib is an inhibitor of PARP enzymes, PARP1, and PARP2. PARP enzymes are involved in cellular DNA damage response signalling pathways such as DNA repair, gene transcription, and cell death. PARP inhibitors (PARPi) exert cytotoxic effects on cancer cells by 2 mechanisms, inhibition of PARP catalytic activity and by PARP trapping, whereby PARP protein bound to a PARPi does not readily dissociate from a DNA lesion, thus preventing DNA repair, replication, and transcription, thereby resulting in apoptosis and/or cell death.

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