Clinical trial • Phase III • Oncology

Doxorubicin hydrochloride for Node-positive breast cancer | Hormone receptor-positive HER2-negative breast cancer

Phase III trial of Doxorubicin hydrochloride for Node-positive breast cancer | Hormone receptor-positive HER2-negative breast cancer.

Overview

Trial Therapeutic Area
Oncology
Trial Disease
Node-positive breast cancer | Hormone receptor-positive HER2-negative breast cancer
Trial Stage
Phase III
Drug Modality
Small molecule

Key dates

Initial CTIS Submission Date
08-08-2024
First CTIS Authorization Date
26-08-2024

Trial design

Randomised, standard adjuvant endocrine therapy (comparators listed in product information): anastrozole 1 mg film-coated tablets (1 mg daily as per smpc) and tamoxifen 20 mg tablets (20 mg daily as per smpc).-controlled Phase III trial in Ireland.

Randomised
Yes
Comparator
Standard adjuvant endocrine therapy (comparators listed in product information): Anastrozole 1 mg film-coated tablets (1 mg daily as per SmPC) and Tamoxifen 20 mg tablets (20 mg daily as per SmPC).
Target Sample Size
4877

Eligibility

Recruits 4877 Vulnerable population selected. Consent must be obtained from patients or their legally authorized representative; patients must sign and give written informed consent in accordance with institutional and federal guidelines. Step 1 and Step 2 subject information and informed consent forms are referenced (Step 2 Consent Form required for randomization). All participants are adults (patients must be females ≥ 18 years of age)..

Pregnancy Exclusion
Patients must not be pregnant or nursing due to the possibility of harm to a fetus or nursing infant from this treatment regimen. Women of reproductive potential must have agreed to use an effective contraceptive method. A woman is considered to be of "reproductive potential" if she has had menses at any time in the preceding 12 consecutive months. In addition to routine contraceptive methods, "effective contraception" also includes heterosexual celibacy and surgery intended to prevent pregnancy (or with a side-effect of pregnancy prevention) defined as a hysterectomy, bilateral oophorectomy or bilateral tubal ligation. However, if at any point a previously celibate patient chooses to become heterosexually active during the time period for use of contraceptive measures outlined in the protocol, he/she is responsible for beginning contraceptive measures.
Vulnerable Population
Vulnerable population selected. Consent must be obtained from patients or their legally authorized representative; patients must sign and give written informed consent in accordance with institutional and federal guidelines. Step 1 and Step 2 subject information and informed consent forms are referenced (Step 2 Consent Form required for randomization). All participants are adults (patients must be females ≥ 18 years of age).

Inclusion criteria

  • {"criterion_text":"- Step 1 Registration (Oncotype DX® Screening): Patients must have a histologically confirmed diagnosis of node positive (1-3 nodes) invasive breast carcinoma with positive estrogen and/or progesterone receptor status, and negative HER-2 status. Estrogen and progesterone receptor positivity must be assessed according to ASCO/CAP guidelines as either ER or PR ≥ 1% positive nuclear staining. HER-2 test result negativity must be assessed as per ASCO/CAP 2013 guidelines using IHC, ISH or both. HER-2 equivocal is not eligible.\n- Step 1 Registration (Oncotype DX® Screening): Patients must not require chronic treatment with systemic steroids (inhaled steroids are allowed) or other immunosuppressive agents.\n- Step 1 Registration (Oncotype DX® Screening): Patients must not have received an aromatase inhibitor (AI) or a selective estrogen receptor modulator (SERM) such as tamoxifen or raloxifene within 5 years prior to registration.\n- Step 1 Registration (Oncotype DX® Screening: Patients must not be pregnant or nursing due to the possibility of harm to a fetus or nursing infant from this treatment regimen.\n- Step 1 Registration (Oncotype DX® Screening: No other prior malignancy is allowed except for adequately treated basal cell (or squamous cell) skin cancer, in situ cervical cancer, or other cancer for which the patient has been disease-free for 5 years.\n- Step 1 Registration (Oncotype DX® Screening: The Quality of Life and Economic Substudy is permanently closed to accrual effective 12/1/12.\n- Step 1 Registration (Oncotype DX® Screening: Patients or their legally authorized representative must be informed of the investigational nature of this study and must sign and give written informed consent in accordance with institutional and federal guidelines.\n- Step 2 Registration (Randomization): Recurrence score (RS) by Oncotype DX® must be ≤ 25.\n- Step 2 Registration (Randomization): Step 2 Registration must take place within 84 days after definitive surgery. Patients must not have begun chemotherapy or endocrine therapy for their breast cancer prior to randomization.\n- Step 2 Registration (Randomization): Patients randomized to either arm may also co-enroll in Phase III trials that compare local therapies, or compare systemic therapies (such as chemotherapy, if randomized to Arm 1 of S1007).\n- Step 2 Registration (Randomization): The Quality of Life and Economic Substudy is permanently closed to accrual effective 12/1/12. Patients at U.S. INSTITUTIONS only.\n- Step 1 Registration (Oncotype DX® Screening): Patients with multifocal, multicentric and synchronous bilateral breast cancers are allowed. Patients will have undergone axillary staging by sentinel node biopsy or axillary lymph nodes dissection (ALND). Patients must have at least one, but no more than three known positive lymph nodes (pN1a, pN1b or pN1c). Patients with micrometastases as the only nodal involvement (pN1mi) are not eligible. Patients with positive sentinel node are not required to undergo full axillary lymph node dissection. This is at the discretion of the treating physician. Axillary node evaluation is to be performed per the standard of care at each insititution.\n- Step 2 Registration (Randomization): All patients must be informed of the investigational nature of this study and must sign and give written informed consent in accordance with institutional and federal guidelines. For all patients the appropriate consent form for this registration is the Step 2 Consent Form.\n- Step 1 Registration (Oncotype DX® Screening): Patients must have had either breast-conserving surgery with planned radiation therapy or total mastectomy (with or without planned postmastectomy radiation). Patients must have clear margins from both invasive breast cancer and DCIS (as per local institutional guidelines). LCIS at the margins is allowed.\n- Step 1 Registration (Oncotype DX® Screening): Registration of patients who have not yet undergone Oncotype DX® screening must occur no later than 56 days after definitive surgery. If the Oncotype DX® Breast Cancer Assay has not been performed, patients must be willing to submit tissue samples for testing to determine the Recurrence Score value. A representative block or unstained sections from the representative block are sent directly to Genomic Health for Oncotype DX® Breast Cancer Assay which will be performed according to the standard commercial process. If the Oncotype DX® Recurrence Score is already known and is 25 or less, the patient must be registered to Step 2 immediately following Step 1 registration. If the Oncotype DX® Recurrence Score is already known and is greater than 25, the patient is ineligible.\n- Step 1 Registration (Oncotype DX® Screening): Patients must be females ≥ 18 years of age. As the Oncotype DX ® Recurrence Score has not been validated in men with breast cancer, men are not eligible for this study.\n- Step 1 Registration (Oncotype DX® Screening): Patients must have a complete history and physical examination within 28 days prior to registration.\n- Step 1 Registration (Oncotype DX® Screening): Patients must have a performance status of 0-2 by Zubrod criteria.\n- Step 1 Registration (Oncotype DX® Screening): Patients must be able to receive taxane and/or anthracycline based chemotherapy.\n- Step 1 Registration (Oncotype DX® Screening): Patients must not have begun chemotherapy or endocrine therapy for their breast cancer prior to registration."}

Exclusion criteria

  • {"criterion_text":"- Patients must not have inflammatory breast cancer and must not have metastatic disease.\n- Patients with a prior diagnosis of contralateral DCIS are eligible if they underwent a mastectomy or lumpectomy with whole breast radiation. Prior partial breast irradiation, including brachytherapy, is not allowed. Patients with a prior diagnosis of ipsilateral DCIS or invasive breast cancer who received radiation to that breast are not eligible.\n- Patients must not have begun chemotherapy or endocrine therapy for their breast cancer prior to registration.\n- Patients must not require chronic treatment with systemic steroids (inhaled steroids are allowed) or other immunosuppressive agents.\n- Patients must not have received an aromatase inhibitor (AI) or a selective estrogen receptor modulator (SERM) such as tamoxifen or raloxifene within 5 years prior to registration.\n- Patients must not be pregnant or nursing due to the possibility of harm to a fetus or nursing infant from this treatment regimen. Women of reproductive potential must have agreed to use an effective contraceptive method. A woman is considered to be of \"reproductive potential\" if she has had menses at any time in the preceding 12 consecutive months. In addition to routine contraceptive methods, \"effective contraception\" also includes heterosexual celibacy and surgery intended to prevent pregnancy (or with a side-effect of pregnancy prevention) defined as a hysterectomy, bilateral oophorectomy or bilateral tubal ligation. However, if at any point a previously celibate patient chooses to become heterosexually active during the time period for use of contraceptive measures outlined in the protocol, he/she is responsible for beginning contraceptive measures.\n- No other prior malignancy is allowed except for adequately treated basal cell (or squamous cell) skin cancer, in situ cervical cancer, or other cancer for which the patient has been disease-free for 5 years.\n- Step 2 Registration must take place within 84 days after definitive surgery. Patients must not have begun chemotherapy or endocrine therapy for their breast cancer prior to randomization."}

Endpoints

Primary endpoints

  • {"endpoint_text":"- DFS: Invasive disease-free survival (DFS) - time from the second registration (randomization) to local, regional, or distant recurrence, new invasive primary, or death due to any cause. The STEEP definition of invasive disease-free survival (IDFS) is used, although it is referred to here by the more common acronym DFS. Survival times are censored at time of last follow-up for individuals who did not have any event meeting the above definition.","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Time from the second registration (randomization) to local, regional, or distant recurrence, new invasive primary, or death due to any cause; STEEP definition of IDFS used; survival times censored at last follow-up for individuals without an event."}

Secondary endpoints

  • {"endpoint_text":"- OS: Overall survival (OS) - time from the second registration (randomization) to death due to any cause. Survival times are censored at time of last follow-up for individuals who are not known to have died.","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Time from randomization to death due to any cause; survival times censored at last follow-up for individuals not known to have died."}
  • {"endpoint_text":"- DDFS: Distant disease-free survival (DDFS) - time from second registration to distant recurrence, new invasive primary, or death due to any cause. Patients who have local or regional recurrence are continued to be followed for a distant event or death. Survival times are censored at time of last follow-up for individuals who are not known to have died and have not had a distant recurrence or new primary.","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Time from randomization to distant recurrence, new invasive primary, or death due to any cause; patients with local/regional recurrence continue to be followed for distant events; censoring at last follow-up if no event."}
  • {"endpoint_text":"- LDFI: Local-regional disease-free interval (LDFI) - time from second registration to local/regional recurrence. 3 Patients who have distant recurrence or a new primary or who die without recurrence are censored at time of this event. The analysis of this endpoint must account for informative censoring using a competing risk framework. Survival times are also censored at time of last follow-up for individuals who are not known to have died and have had a recurrence or new primary.","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Time from randomization to local/regional recurrence; competing risk framework required to account for informative censoring; censoring at distant recurrence/new primary/death without recurrence as specified."}
  • {"endpoint_text":"- Toxicity: Toxicities using standard NCI-CTCAE criteria (CTCAE Version 4.0).","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Adverse events/toxicities graded using NCI-CTCAE Version 4.0 criteria."}

Recruitment

Planned Sample Size
4877
Recruitment Window Months
227
Consent Approach
Written informed consent required. Patients or their legally authorized representative must be informed of the investigational nature of the study and must sign and give written informed consent in accordance with institutional and federal guidelines. Separate Step 1 and Step 2 information and consent forms exist; the Step 2 Consent Form is required for randomization. Participants must be ≥18 years.

Geography

Total Number Of Sites
11
Total Number Of Participants
4877

Ireland

Earliest CTIS Part Ii Submission Date
25-07-2024
Latest Decision Or Authorization Date
27-03-2026
Processing Time Days
610
Number Of Sites
11
Number Of Participants
141

Sites

Site Name
Cork University Hospital
Department Name
Oncology
Contact Person Name
Seamus O'Reilly
Contact Person Email
Seamus.OReilly@hse.ie
Site Name
Beaumont Hospital
Department Name
Oncology
Contact Person Name
Bryan Hennessy
Contact Person Email
bryan.hennessy@hse.ie
Site Name
University Hospital Waterford
Department Name
Medical Oncology
Contact Person Name
Rizwan Sheikh
Contact Person Email
Rizwan.sheikh@hse.ie
Site Name
Sligo University Hospital
Department Name
Oncology
Contact Person Name
Michael Martin
Contact Person Email
MichaelJ.Martin@hse.ie
Site Name
St James's Hospital
Department Name
Oncology
Contact Person Name
Ciara O'Hanlon Brown
Contact Person Email
COHanlonBrown@stjames.ie
Site Name
Mater Misericordiae University Hospital
Department Name
Medical Oncology
Contact Person Name
John McCaffrey
Contact Person Email
jmccaffrey@mater.ie
Site Name
University Hospital Limerick
Department Name
Cancer Services
Contact Person Name
Greg Korpanty
Contact Person Email
Greg.korpanty2@hse.ie
Site Name
St Vincent's University Hospital
Department Name
Medical Oncology
Contact Person Name
John Crown
Contact Person Email
john.crown@cancertrials.ie
Site Name
Mater Private Hospital
Department Name
Medical Oncology
Contact Person Name
John McCaffrey
Contact Person Email
jmccaffrey@materprivate.ie
Site Name
Bon Secours Hospital Cork
Department Name
Medical Oncology
Contact Person Name
Conleth Murphy
Contact Person Email
cgmurphy@bonsecours.ie
Site Name
Letterkenny University Hospital
Department Name
Medical Oncology
Contact Person Name
Karen Duffy
Contact Person Email
KarenA.Duffy@hse.ie

Sponsor

Primary sponsor

Full Name
Cancer Trials Ireland
Organisation Type
Patient organisation/association
Country Of Registered Address
Ireland

Investigational products

Investigational Product Name
Doxorubicin Teva 2 mg/ml Concentrate for Solution for Infusion
Active Substance
Doxorubicin hydrochloride
Modality
Small molecule
Routes Of Administration
INTRAVENOUS
Route
Intravenous
Authorisation Status
Marketing authorisation: PA 749/083/1 (authorisation country code: IE)
Maximum Dose
60 mg/m2
Investigational Product Name
Fluorouracil 50 mg/ml Solution for Injection or Infusion
Active Substance
Fluorouracil
Modality
Small molecule
Routes Of Administration
INTRAVENOUS
Route
Intravenous
Authorisation Status
Marketing authorisation: PA 2315/091/001 (authorisation country code: IE)
Maximum Dose
600 mg/m2
Investigational Product Name
Paclitaxel 6mg/ml Concentrate for Solution for Infusion
Active Substance
Paclitaxel
Modality
Small molecule
Routes Of Administration
INTRAVENOUS
Route
Intravenous
Authorisation Status
Marketing authorisation: PA 22709/004/001 (authorisation country code: IE)
Maximum Dose
220 mg/m2
Investigational Product Name
TAXOTERE 20 mg/0.5 ml concentrate and solvent for solution for infusion
Active Substance
Docetaxel
Modality
Small molecule
Routes Of Administration
INTRAVENOUS
Route
Intravenous
Authorisation Status
Marketing authorisation: EU/1/95/002/001 (authorisation country code: EU)
Maximum Dose
75 mg/m2
Investigational Product Name
Epirubicin 2 mg/ml Solution for Injection
Active Substance
Epirubicin hydrochloride
Modality
Small molecule
Routes Of Administration
INTRAVENOUS
Route
Intravenous
Authorisation Status
Marketing authorisation: PA22766/003/001 (authorisation country code: IE)
Maximum Dose
100 mg/m2
Investigational Product Name
Endoxana Injection 500 mg Powder for Solution for Injection
Active Substance
Cyclophosphamide
Modality
Small molecule
Routes Of Administration
INTRAVENOUS
Route
Intravenous
Authorisation Status
Marketing authorisation: PA 2299/027/001 (authorisation country code: IE)
Maximum Dose
300 mg/m2
Investigational Product Name
Anastrozole 1 mg film-coated tablets
Active Substance
Anastrozole
Modality
Small molecule
Routes Of Administration
ORAL
Route
Oral
Authorisation Status
Marketing authorisation: PA0074/068/001 (authorisation country code: IE)
Frequency
Daily
Maximum Dose
1 mg
Investigational Product Name
Tamoxifen 20 mg Tablets
Active Substance
Tamoxifen
Modality
Small molecule
Routes Of Administration
ORAL
Route
Oral
Authorisation Status
Marketing authorisation: PA0577/207/001 (authorisation country code: IE)
Frequency
Daily
Maximum Dose
20 mg
Combination Treatment
Yes

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