Introduction: The preparation of anticancer chemotherapy in a hospital must meet several objectives; the first main is the quality, which can be provided by setting up a surveillance system and a quality control of each preparations. The aim of this work is to present a simple, fast and accurate spectrophotometric method for the routine control of cytotoxic preparations.
Materials and methods: This is a study carried out in the cytotoxic preparation unit of the university center of Rabat-Sale children's hospital in Morocco. All samples of preparations were collected and analyzed daily on the site. After validation of the analytical method with respect to many parameters such as: linearity, accuracy and precision according to ICH Q2 guidelines, samples of cytotoxic preparations collected were assayed.
Results: The results are satisfactory with good level of exactitude, and high precision.
Conclusion: Compared to other techniques, this method can be considered as a useful alternative in the routine quality control of preparations. It can quickly obtain qualitative and quantitative information with instrumentation and inexpensive reagents.
Keywords: Analytical control; chemotherapy preparations; cytotoxics; spectrophotometry.