Clinical trial • Phase II • Oncology

PEMBROLIZUMAB for Breast cancer|Inflammatory breast cancer|HER2-negative breast cancer

Phase II trial of PEMBROLIZUMAB for Breast cancer|Inflammatory breast cancer|HER2-negative breast cancer. Randomised, open-label, adaptive.

Overview

Trial Therapeutic Area
Oncology
Trial Disease
Breast cancer|Inflammatory breast cancer|HER2-negative breast cancer
Trial Stage
Phase II
Drug Modality
Monoclonal antibody|Small molecule

Key dates

Initial CTIS Submission Date
27-08-2024
First CTIS Authorization Date
31-10-2024

Trial design

Randomised, open-label, adaptive Phase II trial in France.

Randomised
Yes
Open Label
Yes
Adaptive
True - Trial includes a run-in safety phase: DLT rates will be assessed during the 21 days following the first administration of pembrolizumab in combination with EC in the first 6 patients to evaluate toxicity prior to wider enrolment.
Target Sample Size
72

Eligibility

Recruits 72 No vulnerable populations selected. Participants must provide written informed consent (or legally acceptable representative if applicable). Minimum age requirement is 18 years..

Pregnancy Exclusion
Is pregnant or breastfeeding, or expecting to conceive or father children within the projected duration of the trial, starting with the screening visit through 120 days after the last dose of trial treatment
Vulnerable Population
No vulnerable populations selected. Participants must provide written informed consent (or legally acceptable representative if applicable). Minimum age requirement is 18 years.

Inclusion criteria

  • {"criterion_text":"-Male/female participants who are at least 18 years of age on the day of signing informed consent"}
  • {"criterion_text":"-Have adequate organ function. Specimens must be collected within 10 days prior to the start of study treatment"}
  • {"criterion_text":"-Adequate hematologic function: absolute neutrophil count ≥ 1.5 x 109/L AND platelets ≥ 100 x 109 AND Hb ≥ 9.0 g/dL or ≥5.6 mmol/L, Criteria must be met without erythropoietin dependency and without packed red blood cell (pRBC) transfusion within last 2 weeks"}
  • {"criterion_text":"-Adequate liver function: total bilirubin ≤1.5 ×ULN OR direct bilirubin ≤ULN for participants with total bilirubin levels >1.5 × ULN AND - ASAT ≤ 2.5 ULN AND ALAT ≤ 2.5 ULN"}
  • {"criterion_text":"-Adequate kidney function: serum creatinine ≤ 1.5 ULN or creatinine clearance ≥ 30 mL/min for participant with creatinine levels >1.5 × institutional ULN, Creatinine clear-ance (CrCl) should be calculated per institutional standard"}
  • {"criterion_text":"-International Normalized Ratio (INR) or Prothrombin Time (PT) ≤ 1.5 ULN unless subject is receiving anticoagulant therapy, as long as PT or TCA is within therapeutic range of in-tended use of the anticoagulants"}
  • {"criterion_text":"-Adequate cardiac function: left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) ≥ 50% (isotopic or ul-trasound methods)"}
  • {"criterion_text":"-A female participant is eligible to participate if she is not pregnant (see Appendix 3), not breastfeeding, and at least one of the following conditions applies: a.) Not a woman of childbearing potential (WOCBP) as defined in Appendix 3 OR b.) A WOCBP who agrees to follow the contraceptive guidance in Appendix 3 during the treatment period and for at least 12 months after the last dose of cyclophosphamide and 4 months after the last dose of pembrolizumab, whichever come last. Note: Abstinence is acceptable if this is the established and preferred contraception for the subject"}
  • {"criterion_text":"-A male participant must agree to use a contraception as detailed in Appendix 3 of this protocol during the treatment period and for at least 6 months after the last dose of study treatment and refrain from donating sperm during this period (corresponding to time needed to eliminate any study treatments plus an additional 120 days (a spermatogenesis cycle) for study treatments with risk of genotoxicity at any dose)"}
  • {"criterion_text":"-Have an Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0 to 1"}
  • {"criterion_text":"-Able to comply with the protocol"}
  • {"criterion_text":"-Patient affiliated to the national “Social Security” regimen or beneficiary of this regimen, or any other regimen of social security"}
  • {"criterion_text":"-Patient (or legally acceptable representative if applicable) has provided written informed consent for the trial"}
  • {"criterion_text":"-Previously untreated, histologically confirmed diagnosis of breast cancer and confirmed inflammatory breast cancer defined as follows: - T4d any N following American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC)-8th ver-sion classification: breast erythema, edema and/or peau d'orange, occupying at least 1/3 of the breast, with or without underlying palpable mass, duration of history of no more than 6 months"}
  • {"criterion_text":"-HER2 negative tumors by immunohistochemistry (IHC 0 or 1+) or fluores-cent/chromogenic in situ hybridization (FISH- or CISH-)"}
  • {"criterion_text":"-Hormone receptors status known"}
  • {"criterion_text":"-No metastases"}

Exclusion criteria

  • {"criterion_text":"-Has metastatic breast cancer"}
  • {"criterion_text":"-Has received prior therapy with an anti-PD-1, anti-PD-L1, or anti PD L2 agent or with an agent directed to another stimulatory or co-inhibitory T-cell receptor (e.g., CTLA-4, OX 40, CD137)"}
  • {"criterion_text":"-Has HER2-positive breast cancer"}
  • {"criterion_text":"-Has a known history of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) (HIV 1/2 antibodies)"}
  • {"criterion_text":"-Has known history of Hepatitis B (e.g., HBsAg reactive) or known active Hepatitis C virus infection (e.g., HCV RNA [qualitative] is detected)"}
  • {"criterion_text":"-Has received a live vaccine within 30 days prior to the first dose of study drug. Examples of live vaccines include, but are not limited to, the following: measles, mumps, rubella, varicella/zoster (chicken pox), yellow fever, rabies, Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG), and typhoid vaccine. Seasonal influenza vaccines for injection are generally killed virus vac-cines and are allowed; however, intranasal influenza vaccines (e.g., FluMist®) are live at-tenuated vaccines and are not allowed"}
  • {"criterion_text":"-Has bilateral breast cancer"}
  • {"criterion_text":"-Prior allogeneic stem cell or solid organ transplantation"}
  • {"criterion_text":"-A WOCBP who has a positive serum pregnancy test within 72 hours prior to randomiza-tion"}
  • {"criterion_text":"-Is currently participating in or has participated in a study of an investigational agent or has used an investigational device within 4 weeks prior to the first dose of study treatment"}
  • {"criterion_text":"-Has known active CNS disease or carcinomatous meningitis"}
  • {"criterion_text":"-Has severe hypersensitivity (≥Grade 3) to pembrolizumab and/or any of its excipients"}
  • {"criterion_text":"-Has a diagnosis of immunodeficiency or is receiving systemic steroid therapy (in dosing exceeding 10 mg daily of prednisone equivalent) or any other form of immunosuppres-sive therapy within 7 days prior to the first dose of study drug"}
  • {"criterion_text":"-Has a known history of active TB (Bacillus Tuberculosis)"}
  • {"criterion_text":"-If subject received major surgery, they must have recovered adequately from the toxicity and/or complications from the intervention prior to starting therapy"}
  • {"criterion_text":"-Has active autoimmune disease that has required systemic treatment in the past 2 years (i.e. with use of disease modifying agents, corticosteroids or immunosuppressive drugs). Replacement therapy (e.g. thyroxine, insulin, or physiologic corticosteroid replacement therapy for adrenal or pituitary insufficiency, etc.) is not considered a form of systemic treatment"}
  • {"criterion_text":"-Has a history of (non-infectious) pneumonitis that required steroids or has current pneu-monitis"}
  • {"criterion_text":"-Has an active infection requiring systemic therapy"}
  • {"criterion_text":"-Has a history or current evidence of any condition, therapy, or laboratory abnormality that might confound the results of the trial, interfere with the subject’s participation for the full duration of the trial, or is not in the best interest of the subject to participate, in the opinion of the treating investigator"}
  • {"criterion_text":"-Has known psychiatric or substance abuse disorders that would interfere with coopera-tion with the requirements of the trial"}
  • {"criterion_text":"-Is pregnant or breastfeeding, or expecting to conceive or father children within the pro-jected duration of the trial, starting with the screening visit through 120 days after the last dose of trial treatment"}

Endpoints

Primary endpoints

  • {"endpoint_text":"-Central evaluation of pathological complete response rate as defined as absence of any residual invasive cancer on hematoxylin and eosin evaluation of the resected breast specimen and all sampled ipsilateral lymph nodes following completion of NAST (i.e., ypT0/is, ypN0 in the current AJCC staging system)","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Central histopathology evaluation of resected breast specimen and all sampled ipsilateral lymph nodes; absence of residual invasive cancer (ypT0/is, ypN0 according to AJCC staging) following completion of neoadjuvant systemic therapy"}
  • {"endpoint_text":"-Dose Limiting Toxicity (DLT) rates as defined as incidence of DLT during the 21 days following the first administration of pembrolizumab in combination with EC, will be assessed in the first 6 patients","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Incidence of DLT during the 21 days following first administration of pembrolizumab plus EC; assessed in the first 6 patients (safety run-in)"}

Secondary endpoints

  • {"endpoint_text":"-Occurrence of serious adverse events and adverse events starting grade 2 or grade 1 (run-in period) according to the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Common Terminology Criteria for Ad-verse Events (CTCAE) V5.0","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Assessment of adverse events and serious adverse events graded per NCI CTCAE v5.0; includes early grade 1/2 events during run-in"}
  • {"endpoint_text":"-Local evaluation of pathological complete response rate as defined as absence of any residual invasive cancer on hematoxylin and eosin evaluation of the resected breast specimen and all sampled ipsilateral lymph nodes following completion of NAST (i.e., ypT0/is, ypN0 in the current AJCC staging system)","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Local (site) histopathology evaluation using H&E of resected breast specimen and sampled lymph nodes; absence of invasive cancer (ypT0/is, ypN0)"}
  • {"endpoint_text":"-Invasive disease-free survival (IDFS), as defined as time from surgery to the first documented occurrence of an event, defined as: Ipsilateral invasive breast tumor recurrence or\tIpsilateral local-regional invasive breast cancer recurrence or Distant recurrence or contralateral invasive breast cancer or death from any cause","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Time-to-event endpoint measured from surgery to first documented qualifying event (local, regional, distant recurrence, contralateral invasive breast cancer, or death)"}
  • {"endpoint_text":"-Event free survival (EFS), defined as time from randomization to disease progression, disease recurrence (local, regional, distant, or contralateral [invasive or non-invasive]), or death from any cause)","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Time from randomization to disease progression, recurrence (local/regional/distant/contralateral invasive or non-invasive), or death"}
  • {"endpoint_text":"-Overall survival (OS), defined as time from randomization to death from any cause","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Time from randomization to death from any cause"}

Recruitment

Planned Sample Size
72
Recruitment Window Months
107
Consent Approach
Written informed consent required from the participant (or legally acceptable representative if applicable). Subject information and informed consent form document exists (L1_SIS and ICF). Minimum age requirement is 18. No explicit mention of assent or languages provided in the available records.

Geography

Total Number Of Sites
13
Total Number Of Participants
72

France

Earliest CTIS Part Ii Submission Date
04-09-2024
Latest Decision Or Authorization Date
31-10-2024
Processing Time Days
57
Number Of Sites
13
Number Of Participants
72

Sites

Site Name
ICANS - Institut de cancérologie Strasbourg Europe
Department Name
Oncologie médicale
Contact Person Name
Thierry PETIT
Contact Person Email
tpetit@strasbourg.unicancer.fr
Site Name
Institut Bergonie
Department Name
Oncologie médicale
Contact Person Name
Camille CHAKIBA-BRUGERE
Site Name
Centre Francois Baclesse
Department Name
Oncologie médicale
Contact Person Name
Christelle LEVY
Contact Person Email
c.levy@baclesse.unicancer.fr
Site Name
Clinique De L'Europe
Department Name
Oncologie médicale
Contact Person Name
Michel GOZY
Contact Person Email
michelgozy@gmail.com
Site Name
Institut de Cancérologie Lucien Neuwirth
Department Name
Oncologie médicale
Contact Person Name
Jean-Philippe JACQUIN
Site Name
Oncopole Claudius Regaud
Department Name
Oncologie médicale
Contact Person Name
Florence DALENC
Site Name
Centre Henri Becquerel
Department Name
Oncologie médicale
Contact Person Name
Marianne LEHEURTEUR
Site Name
Institut Curie (Saint-Cloud)
Department Name
Oncologie médicale
Contact Person Name
Florence LEREBOURS
Contact Person Email
Florence.lerebours@curie.fr
Site Name
Centr Georges Francois Leclerc
Department Name
Oncologie médicale
Contact Person Name
Sylvain LADOIRE
Contact Person Email
sladoire@cgfl.fr
Site Name
Centre Leon Berard
Department Name
Cancérologie médicale
Contact Person Name
Thomas BACHELOT
Site Name
Institut Paoli Calmettes (Marseille)
Department Name
Oncologie médicale
Contact Person Name
Anthony GONCALVES
Contact Person Email
goncalvesa@ipc.unicancer.fr
Site Name
Institut Curie (Paris)
Department Name
Oncologie médicale
Contact Person Name
Florence LEREBOURS
Contact Person Email
Florence.lerebours@curie.fr
Site Name
Institut Sainte Catherine
Department Name
Oncologie médicale
Contact Person Name
Julien GRENIER
Contact Person Email
j.grenier@isc84.org

Sponsor

Primary sponsor

Full Name
Institut Paoli Calmettes
Organisation Type
Hospital/Clinic/Other health care facility
Country Of Registered Address
France

Investigational products

Investigational Product Name
KEYTRUDA 25 mg/mL concentrate for solution for infusion
Active Substance
PEMBROLIZUMAB
Modality
Monoclonal antibody
Routes Of Administration
INTRAVENOUS INFUSION
Route
INTRAVENOUS INFUSION
Authorisation Status
Marketing authorisation: EU/1/15/1024/002
Maximum Dose
max daily dose 200 mg; max total dose 1200 mg (as provided in product record)
Investigational Product Name
ENDOXAN 1000 mg, poudre pour solution injectable
Active Substance
CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE
Modality
Small molecule
Routes Of Administration
INTRAVENOUS INFUSION
Route
INTRAVENOUS INFUSION
Authorisation Status
Marketing authorisation present (product record PRD350184)
Maximum Dose
max daily dose 600 mg/m2; max total dose 2400 mg/m2 (as provided in product record)
Investigational Product Name
EPIRUBICINE MEDAC 2 mg/ml, solution pour perfusion
Active Substance
EPIRUBICIN HYDROCHLORIDE
Modality
Small molecule
Routes Of Administration
INTRAVENOUS INFUSION
Route
INTRAVENOUS INFUSION
Authorisation Status
Marketing authorisation present (product record PRD574660)
Maximum Dose
max daily dose 90 mg/m2; max total dose 360 mg/m2 (as provided in product record)
Investigational Product Name
PACLITAXEL KABI 6 mg/ml, solution à diluer pour perfusion.
Active Substance
PACLITAXEL
Modality
Small molecule
Routes Of Administration
INTRAVENOUS INFUSION
Route
INTRAVENOUS INFUSION
Authorisation Status
Marketing authorisation present (product record PRD3247258)
Maximum Dose
max daily dose 80 mg/m2; max total dose 720 mg/m2 (as provided in product record)
Combination Treatment
Yes

Related trials

Other published trials that may interest you.