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. 2020 May 29;9(2):IJH26. doi: 10.2217/ijh-2020-0004

Table 2. . Pregnancy cases of bosutinib exposure: abortions.

Setting Age (years) Starting bosutinib dose (mg/day) Indication Therapy duration (months) Action taken Relationship to bosutinib exposure Details
Exposure via the mother
Spontaneous report from a contactable physician received via a sales representative 300 A drug-event causal association cannot be ruled out The patient became pregnant while on bosutinib for an unspecified condition. The patient’s pregnancy was aborted on an unspecified date at the patient’s request
Clinical trial 35 400 1st-line CML ∼24 Bosutinib permanently discontinued after elective abortion Unrelated The patient became pregnant while receiving bosutinib. The patient chose to have an elective abortion at week 5 due to her personal decision not to have more children


Concomitant medication included oral bendroflumethiazide 2.5 mg q.d. and oral enalapril 10 mg q.d. for hypertension, oral loperamide hydrochloride 2 mg prn, oral clemastine fumarate 1 mg prn and oral desloratadine 5 mg prn
Clinical trial 34 500 1st-line CML <1 Dose not changed Unrelated The patient was thought to have become pregnant prior to enrolling in the study. Upon examination on a date after the patient began bosutinib therapy, the patient’s physician reported a suspected spontaneous abortion of an ectopic pregnancy
Clinical trial 23 400 1st-line CML ∼23 Bosutinib permanently discontinued ∼7 weeks' gestational age Unrelated The patient became pregnant while receiving bosutinib. The outcome of the pregnancy was partial molar pregnancy requiring dilation and curettage


Concomitant medication included diphenhydramine hydrochloride, acetylsalicylic acid, caffeine, paracetamol, salicylamide, ondansetron, sumatriptan and ferrous sulfate
Exposure via the father
Clinical trial 500 ≥2nd-line CML Bosutinib continued unchanged Unrelated The patient began taking bosutinib for CML in February 2009. On an unknown date in 2009, a pregnancy of the patient’s partner was confirmed. On June 20, 2009, an elective abortion was carried out
Clinical trial 35 500 ≥2nd-line CML ∼22§ Bosutinib continued unchanged Unrelated The patient’s partner became pregnant ∼22 months after the patient began therapy. On December 18, 2009, the partner underwent a medical abortion of the pregnancy
Clinical trial 32 500 ≥2nd-line leukemia (unspecified) ∼5 Bosutinib continued unchanged Unrelated The patient began taking bosutinib in August 2007. In January 2008, a pregnancy of the patient’s partner was confirmed. The partner experienced a spontaneous abortion in May 2008. Fetal biopsy revealed basal deciduitis with necrosis foci and bleeding
Clinical trial 39 400 1st-line CML ∼7 Bosutinib continued unchanged Unrelated The patient began taking bosutinib in April 2015 for CML. An unintended pregnancy of the patient’s partner was confirmed in December 2015. Three weeks later, the partner underwent an elective termination via curettage induced abortion


Concomitant medication was prednicarbate
Clinical trial 26 400 1st-line CML ∼7 Unrelated The patient began taking bosutinib for CML in August 2015. In February 2016, a pregnancy of the patient’s partner with a gestational age of 8 weeks was confirmed. A week later, the partner communicated to the patient that the fetus was not growing and an abortion of the pregnancy would be performed. No congenital abnormality was confirmed


No concomitant medication

From start of treatment to discontinuation of bosutinib/pregnancy confirmation.

At diagnosis of ectopic pregnancy.

§

At estimated date of conception.

CML: Chronic myeloid leukemia; prn: As needed; q.d.: Daily.