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. 2018 Nov 3;24(3):262–273. doi: 10.1007/s10147-018-1359-3

Table 2.

Patient exposure to palbociclib plus fulvestrant and placebo plus fulvestrant in the overall and Japanese population (as-treated population; data cutoff date: December 5, 2014)

Overall population Japanese patients
PAL + FUL (n = 345) PBO + FUL (n = 172) PAL + FUL (n = 27) PBO + FUL (n = 8)
Palbociclib or placebo
 Duration of treatment,a median (range), day 144 (1‒390) 120 (14‒402) 142 (42‒308) 201 (123‒301)
 Average daily dose, median (range), mg 125 (81‒131) 125 (109‒129) 115 (85‒125) 125 (125‒125)
 Dose reductions,bn (%) 109 (32) 3 (2) 14 (52) 0
  Reduction to 100 mg 100 (29) 3 (2) 12 (44) 0
  Reduction to 75 mg 27 (8) 0 4 (15) 0
  Reduction to 75 mg 2/2c 6 (2) 0 1 (4) 0
  Time to first dose reduction,d median (range), day 37 (27‒240) 85 (58‒143) 34 (29‒141)
Dose interruption,en (%) 301 (87) 110 (64) 27 (100) 8 (100)
Relative dose intensity, median (range), % 92 (22‒105) 100 (69‒107) 80 (50‒100) 98 (85‒100)
Fulvestrant
 Dose interruption,fn (%) 10 (3) 2 (1) 1 (4) 0
 Relative dose intensity, median (range), % 100 (50‒117) 100 (50‒108) 98 (81‒104) 100 (96‒101)

FUL fulvestrant, PAL palbociclib, PBO placebo

aTotal number of days from first through last day of each study treatment

bAny dose reduction from the initial prescribed dose; does not include dose interruptions

cPalbociclib dose de-escalation to 75 mg/day 2 weeks on followed by 2 weeks off (2/2 schedule)

dTimed from start date of first occurrence minus first dose date of cycle 1 + 1

eDose interruption defined as (1) any missing dose recorded from the case report form, (2) any gaps within 21 doses in a cycle, or (3) patient did not complete 21 doses in a cycle

fDose interruption defined as (1) any missing dose recorded from case report form or (2) patient did not complete 2 doses in cycle 1