Denosumab for patients with persistent or relapsed hypercalcemia of malignancy despite recent bisphosphonate treatment.

ABSTRACT: Hypercalcemia of malignancy (HCM), caused primarily by tumor-induced bone resorption, may lead to renal failure, coma, and death. Although HCM can be treated with intravenous bisphosphonates, patients may not respond or may relapse on therapy. Denosumab binds the bone resorption mediator RANKL. In this single-arm, open-label, proof-of-concept study, HCM patients with albumin-corrected serum calcium (CSC) levels greater than 12.5mg/dL (Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events grade ≥ 3) despite recent intravenous bisphosphonate treatment received subcutaneous denosumab on days 1, 8, 15, and 29, and then every 4 weeks. The primary endpoint was the proportion of patients with CSC 11.5mg/dL or less (grade ≤ 1) within 10 days of denosumab initiation. In a prespecified interim analysis, 15

SUBMITTER: Hu MI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3776443 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature