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. 2013 Jan 4;13(1):17–28. doi: 10.1007/s40268-012-0001-5

Table 3.

Cumulative percentage excretion of bendamustine, the metabolites γ-hydroxy-bendamustine, N-desmethyl-bendamustine, and dihydroxy bendamustine, and total radioactivity in urine over 24 hours and total radioactivity in urine and feces over 168 hours and until the end of the collection period following an intravenous 60-minute infusion of 120 mg/m2 of 14C-bendamustine hydrochloride

Collection Patient Mean [SD]
1 2 3 4 5 6
Urine (% excretion)
 0–24 hours Bendamustine 1.46 5.17 1.65 1.85 3.74 5.98 3.31 [1.95]
M3 0.64 0.36 0.5 0.7 0.76 1.42 0.73 [0.37]
M4 0 0.12 0.08 0 0 0.27 0.08 [0.11]
HP2 8.65 4.09 4.18 8.25 2.12 2.04 4.89 [2.9]
Suma 10.75 9.74 6.41 10.8 6.62 9.71 9.01 [1.99]
TRA 36.36 36.08 36.53 34.77 32.83 43.1 36.61 [3.47]
 0–168 hours TRA 42.16 50.69 45.26 40.44 43.11 51.11 45.46 [4.49]
 0–EoCb TRA 47.6 57.93 48.26 40.44 47.86 51.93 49 [5.75]
Feces (% excretion)
 0–168 hours TRA 30.3 8.92 34.44 31.88 29.45 16.1 25.18 [10.22]
 0–EoCb TRA 32.64 8.92 34.44 31.88 35.08 18.89 26.98 [10.67]
Total (% excretion)
 0–168 hours TRA 72.46 59.61 79.7 72.32 72.56 67.21 70.64 [6.71]
 0–EoCb TRA 80.24 66.85 82.7 72.32 82.94 70.82 75.98 [6.86]

EoC end of collection period, HP2 dihydroxy bendamustine, M3 γ-hydroxy-bendamustine, M4 N-desmethyl-bendamustine, SD standard deviation, TRA total radioactivity

aThese values represent the sum of bendamustine, M3, M4, and HP2

bThe time of the EoC varied among patients and ranged from 168 to 504 hours