Management of cancer treatments in hemodialysis patients.

Bull Cancer

Groupe de recherche interdisciplinaire francophone en onco-néphrologie (GRIFON), Paris, France; Centre hospitalier universitaire Gabriel-Montpied, service d'oncologie médicale, Clermont-Ferrand, France. Electronic address:

Published: July 2024

Introduction: The number of cancer patients receiving long-term hemodialysis (HD) is increasing, and HD could jeopardize treatments' safety and efficacy. Therefore, managing anticancer drugs is critical in this frail population. In addition, evidence of HD safety or risk is regularly released both for cytotoxic chemotherapy (CT) or hormone therapy (HT) as well as new therapies with molecularly targeted therapies (MTT), immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI), and a summary of current knowledge is needed.

Methods: We aimed to synthesize available data on cancer treatments in HD patients using PubMed database, FDA labels, summary of product characteristics (SmPC), FDA and EMA approval documents, guidelines and finally case reports for which relevant pharmacokinetic (PK) data is available.

Results: For CT, recently proposed guidelines were balanced by the publication of particular toxic reports following them. SmPC was helpful in some cases, but no data was found for most CTs. MTT, both oral and monoclonal antibodies, were rarely modified by HD. However, HD patients have particular frailty that could require dose adaptation despite no substantial PK modification. Similarly, exposure to ICIs is unlikely to be modified by HD since immunoglobulins are not dialyzable. For HT, PK characteristics and HD impact were more heterogeneous and were reviewed molecule by molecule.

Conclusions: We summarized current knowledge on HD and cancer treatments. Data remains scarce, and the latest guidelines rely on few clinical data. There is a need to collect both retrospective and prospective data to better characterize the safety and relevant dose and schedule adaptations whenever needed in this situation to reinforce future guidelines.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bulcan.2023.01.018DOI Listing

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