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Proton pump inhibitors are frequently used in cancer patients to alleviate some symptoms, epigastric pain or heartburn. However, acid suppression decreases the absorption of some oral-targeted anticancer treatments (tyrosine kinase inhibitors, CDK4/6 inhibitors) and induces changes in the gut microbiome. Recent data are showing that these interactions have important clinical impacts and medical oncologists and patients must be aware of these possible interactions.

Abstract

Multikinase inhibitors (MKIs), and particularly tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) and immune checkpoint inhibitors (CPIs), are currently some of the major breakthroughs in cancer treatment. Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) revolutionised the treatment of acid-related diseases, but are frequently overused for epigastric pain or heartburn. However, long-term acid suppression from using PPIs may lead to safety concerns, and could have a greater impact in cancer patients undergoing therapy, like bone fractures, renal toxicities, enteric infections, and micronutrient deficiencies (iron and magnesium). Moreover, acid suppression may also affect the pharmacokinetics of drugs (at least during acid suppression) and decrease the absorption of many molecularly-targeted anticancer therapies, which are mostly weak bases with pH-dependent absorption. This type of drug-drug interaction may have detrimental effects on efficacy, with major clinical impacts described for some orally administrated targeted therapies (erlotinib, gefitinib, pazopanib, palbociclib), and conflicting results with many others, including capecitabine. Furthermore, the long-term use of PPIs results in severe alterations to the gut microbiome and recent retrospective analyses have shown that the benefit of using CPIs was suppressed in patients treated with PPIs. These very expensive drugs are of great importance because of their efficacy. As the use of PPIs is not essential, we must apply the precautionary principle. All these data should encourage medical oncologists to refrain from prescribing PPIs, explaining to patients the risks of interaction in order to prevent inappropriate prescription by another physician.

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Title
Long-Term Use of Proton Pump Inhibitors in Cancer Patients: An Opinion Paper
Author
Jean-Luc Raoul 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Edeline, Julien 2   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Simmet, Victor 3 ; Moreau-Bachelard, Camille 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Gilabert, Marine 4   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Frénel, Jean-Sébastien 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo 

 Department of Medical Oncology, Institut de Cancérologie de l’Ouest, 44805 Saint-Herblain, France; [email protected] (C.M.-B.); [email protected] (J.-S.F.) 
 Department of Medical Oncology, Centre E Marquis, 35000 Rennes, France; [email protected] 
 Department of Medical Oncology, Institut de Cancérologie de l’Ouest, 49055 Angers, France; [email protected]; Department of Medical Oncology, Centre Hospitalier de Cholet, 49300 Cholet, France 
 Department of Medical Oncology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland; [email protected] 
First page
1156
Publication year
2022
Publication date
2022
Publisher
MDPI AG
e-ISSN
20726694
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2637616684
Copyright
© 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.