Comparative Pharmacology
Head-to-head clinical analysis: INLYTA versus LENVATINIB.
Peer-Reviewed Evidence
Head-to-head clinical analysis: INLYTA versus LENVATINIB.
INLYTA vs LENVATINIB
Comparing the clinical profiles, pharmacokinetic behaviors, and safety indices of these two therapeutic agents.
Axitinib is a tyrosine kinase inhibitor that selectively inhibits vascular endothelial growth factor receptors (VEGFR-1, VEGFR-2, and VEGFR-3), which are involved in pathologic angiogenesis, tumor growth, and metastatic progression of cancer.
Lenvatinib is a kinase inhibitor that inhibits the receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs) including VEGFR1 (FLT1), VEGFR2 (KDR), VEGFR3 (FLT4), FGFR1, FGFR2, FGFR3, FGFR4, PDGFRα, KIT, and RET. It also inhibits the kinase activities of other RTKs involved in tumor angiogenesis and tumor growth.
5 mg orally twice daily, approximately 12 hours apart, with or without food.
24 mg orally once daily for differentiated thyroid carcinoma; 8 mg twice daily or 12 mg once daily in combination with everolimus for renal cell carcinoma; 12 mg once daily in combination with pembrolizumab for advanced endometrial carcinoma.
None Documented
None Documented
Clinical Note
moderateLenvatinib + Digoxin
"Lenvatinib may decrease the cardiotoxic activities of Digoxin."
Clinical Note
moderateLenvatinib + Digitoxin
"Lenvatinib may decrease the cardiotoxic activities of Digitoxin."
Clinical Note
moderateLenvatinib + Deslanoside
"Lenvatinib may decrease the cardiotoxic activities of Deslanoside."
Clinical Note
moderateLenvatinib + Acetyldigitoxin
"Lenvatinib may decrease the cardiotoxic activities of Acetyldigitoxin."
Terminal elimination half-life is approximately 13–17 hours in patients, supporting twice-daily dosing.
Approximately 28 hours (range 22-35 hours); supports once-daily dosing with steady-state achieved in ~5-7 days.
Primarily hepatic metabolism via CYP3A4 and subsequent biliary-fecal elimination (approximately 61% of dose recovered in feces, 23% in urine as metabolites; <10% excreted unchanged in urine or feces).
Fecal (approximately 64% of dose) and renal (approximately 25% of dose, with <2% as unchanged drug).
Category C
Category C
Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor
Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor