TY - JOUR
T1 - Pre-clinical animal models are poor predictors of human toxicities in phase 1 oncology clinical trials
AU - Atkins, Johnique T.
AU - George, Goldy C.
AU - Hess, Kenneth
AU - Marcelo-Lewis, Kathrina L.
AU - Yuan, Ying
AU - Borthakur, Gautam
AU - Khozin, Sean
AU - LoRusso, Patricia
AU - Hong, David S.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Cancer Research UK.
PY - 2020/11/10
Y1 - 2020/11/10
N2 - Background: Our objective was to determine the correlation between preclinical toxicity found in animal models (mouse, rat, dog and monkey) and clinical toxicity reported in patients participating in Phase 1 oncology clinical trials. Methods: We obtained from two major early-Phase clinical trial centres, preclinical toxicities from investigational brochures and clinical toxicities from published Phase 1 trials for 108 drugs, including small molecules, biologics and conjugates. Toxicities were categorised according to Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events version 4.0. Human toxicities were also categorised based on their reported clinical grade (severity). Positive predictive values (PPV) and negative predictive values (NPV) were calculated to determine the probability that clinical studies would/would not show a particular toxicity category given that it was seen in preclinical toxicology analysis. Statistical analyses also included kappa statistics, and Matthews (MCC) and Spearman correlation coefficients. Results: Overall, animal toxicity did not show strong correlation with human toxicity, with a median PPV of 0.65 and NPV of 0.50. Similar results were obtained based on kappa statistics and MCC. Conclusions: There is an urgent need to assess more novel approaches to the type and conduct of preclinical toxicity studies in an effort to provide better predictive value for human investigation.
AB - Background: Our objective was to determine the correlation between preclinical toxicity found in animal models (mouse, rat, dog and monkey) and clinical toxicity reported in patients participating in Phase 1 oncology clinical trials. Methods: We obtained from two major early-Phase clinical trial centres, preclinical toxicities from investigational brochures and clinical toxicities from published Phase 1 trials for 108 drugs, including small molecules, biologics and conjugates. Toxicities were categorised according to Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events version 4.0. Human toxicities were also categorised based on their reported clinical grade (severity). Positive predictive values (PPV) and negative predictive values (NPV) were calculated to determine the probability that clinical studies would/would not show a particular toxicity category given that it was seen in preclinical toxicology analysis. Statistical analyses also included kappa statistics, and Matthews (MCC) and Spearman correlation coefficients. Results: Overall, animal toxicity did not show strong correlation with human toxicity, with a median PPV of 0.65 and NPV of 0.50. Similar results were obtained based on kappa statistics and MCC. Conclusions: There is an urgent need to assess more novel approaches to the type and conduct of preclinical toxicity studies in an effort to provide better predictive value for human investigation.
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U2 - 10.1038/s41416-020-01033-x
DO - 10.1038/s41416-020-01033-x
M3 - Article
C2 - 32868897
AN - SCOPUS:85089975449
SN - 0007-0920
VL - 123
SP - 1496
EP - 1501
JO - British journal of cancer
JF - British journal of cancer
IS - 10
ER -