Hycamtin capsules - labeled renal guidance
Renal action and limits
Topotecan (Hycamtin), adult oral capsules for relapsed small cell lung cancer
Cockcroft-Gault CrCl using ideal body weight, mL/min
- Action or finding
- Use Cockcroft-Gault with ideal body weight. At CrCl 30-49 mL/min, give 1.5 mg/m2/day; below 30, give 0.6 mg/m2/day. Both are on days 1-5 of the 21-day oral cycle.
- Limits and monitoring
- Use the oral dose-modification table. Verify blood-count recovery before the next cycle. IV topotecan uses different doses.
- Before use
- The primary label table includes 49 mL/min in the 30-49 band; section 8.6 also uses the words less than 49. At this boundary verify section 2.3 of the exact capsule label.
- Product / population
- Topotecan (Hycamtin), adult oral capsules for relapsed small cell lung cancer
- Renal measure
- Cockcroft-Gault CrCl using ideal body weight, mL/min
- Source revision
- DailyMed SPL version 1, effective 2023-09-18; posted Oct 31, 2024
- Retrieved
- 2026-11-07 (not the revision date)
Renal guidance: 2.1, 2.3 and 8.6
Use the oral dose-modification table. Verify blood-count recovery before the next cycle. IV topotecan uses different doses.
| Cockcroft-Gault CrCl (mL/min), ideal body weight | Oral starting dose on days 1-5 of each 21-day cycle |
|---|---|
| 30-49 | 1.5 mg/m2/day |
| <30 | 0.6 mg/m2/day |
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Use Cockcroft-Gault with ideal body weight. At CrCl 30-49 mL/min, give 1.5 mg/m2/day; below 30, give 0.6 mg/m2/day. Both are on days 1-5 of the 21-day oral cycle. Use the oral dose-modification table. Verify blood-count recovery before the next cycle. IV topotecan uses different doses.
Source: https://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/drugInfo.cfm?setid=b23b46f5-c276-47f5-8bbd-940680b3f579
