A Phase 2 Single-Arm Open-Label Pilot Trial Evaluating Zanidatamab (ZW25) in Patients With Early Stage HER2/Neu Positive (HER2+) Breast Cancer (BC)
Who can join
As published by the study on ClinicalTrials.gov. "Not stated" means the study hasn't said — ask the study team.
- Age
- 18 Years and older
- Sex
- Female only
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
- Compensation
- Not stated
Other requirements are listed under Eligibility below. Only the study team can confirm whether you can join.
What to expect
No one can promise a trial will help you personally — that is what the research is trying to find out.
What participation involves
Not stated in the study description — ask the study team about visits and procedures.
- Compensation
- Not stated
- Study-related exams and procedures are typically provided at no cost. This is how many trials work in general — confirm the details for this study with the study team.
- Participants are monitored closely by the research team throughout the study.
- Some participants may receive access to an investigational treatment, which is still being studied.
- Your participation helps researchers learn whether this approach could help future patients.
About this study
In plain language
This study tests zanidatamab in adults with early-stage, low-risk HER2-positive breast cancer. HER2-positive means the cancer has extra HER2 protein. The study checks whether treatment leaves no cancer found in tissue removed during surgery.
This is a Phase 2, single-site, single-arm open-label trial of zanidatamab in patients with early stage, low risk HER2+ BC. The primary objective is to determine the efficacy of zanidatamab for patients with early stage HER2/neu positive (HER2+) breast cancer (BC) as determined by pathologic complete response (pCR) .
Compensation is read from the study's own description and may be missing — always confirm with the study team.
Eligibility
Who can join
- Be older than 18 and able to give written consent.
- Be willing and medically able to have surgery.
- Be fully active or able to do light work despite some limits on hard physical activity.
- Have a breast tumor larger than 1 cm and no larger than 3 cm on ultrasound, with no signs of cancer in nearby lymph nodes or known spread elsewhere.
- Have HER2-positive breast cancer. Cancer may be estrogen receptor positive or negative.
- Have normal heart pumping function on a scan within 4 weeks before treatment.
- Have blood counts and kidney and liver test results that meet study limits.
- If able to have children, agree to suitable birth control and have a negative pregnancy test within 3 days before treatment, if applicable. Do not donate eggs or sperm from screening until at least 12 months after treatment ends.
Who can't join
- Help plan or run the study; have another cancer that could affect study results or safety; or have already received any treatment for this breast cancer.
- Have cancer that has spread to distant parts of the body, including the brain or tissues around the brain and spinal cord.
- Have serious heart disease, past heart failure, certain abnormal heart rhythms, or uncontrolled high blood pressure. A heart attack or unstable chest pain within 6 months also excludes you.
- Have an uncontrolled illness, such as infection, stomach ulcers or swelling, bleeding problems, seizures, or certain kidney, pancreas, or liver diseases; or have mental health or social problems that prevent consent or following study rules.
- Be pregnant or breastfeeding, or able to become pregnant without using effective birth control. Known active hepatitis B or C, or known HIV infection, also excludes you.
- Have had major surgery within 4 weeks, except placement of a medicine port; a blood clot in the lungs causing symptoms within 28 days; or a live vaccine within 4 weeks. Non-live COVID vaccines are allowed at least 48 hours apart from study treatment.
- Have received more than the allowed lifetime amount of certain chemotherapy drugs called anthracyclines, or recently needed medicines that weaken the immune system. Some low-dose, locally applied, or short-term steroids are allowed.
- Have had a life-threatening allergic reaction to antibody medicines, lab-made proteins, or ingredients in the study drug.
Simplified for readability. The official criteria below are what the study team uses.
Official eligibility criteria
Inclusion Criteria: 1. Ability to give written informed consent 2. Age \> 18 years at time of study entry. 3. Patient would be willing to undergo surgery is appropriate for surgery 4. Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0 or 1 (Appendix 1). 5. Tumor size \> 1 cm to ≤ 3 cm assessed by ultrasound and clinically and radiographically node negative with no known metastatic disease. 6. HER2+ BC as defined by American Society of Clinical Oncology-College of American Pathologists (ASCO-CAP) guidelines.31 Patients may have ER+ or ER- negative disease, as defined by ASCO-CAP guidelines. 7. Left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) must be within institutional limits of normal as assessed by echocardiogram (ECHO) or multigated acquisition (MUGA) scan, documented within 4 weeks prior to first dose of study drug. 8. Adequate normal organ and marrow function as defined below: * Hemoglobin ≥ 9.0 g/dL * Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) ≥ 1.5 x 109/L (≥ 1500 per mm3) * Platelet count ≥ 100 x 109/L (≥100,000 per mm3) * Serum bilirubin ≤ 1.5 x institutional upper limit of normal (ULN). The maximum allowable bilirubin is ≤ 2.5 x ULN for patients with Gilbert's disease. * Aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and alanine aminotransferase (ALT) ≤ 3 x institutional ULN * Calculated glomerular filtration rate \>50 mL/min 9. Patients must either be of non-reproductive potential or willing to undergo appropriate contraception. Male subjects must agree not to donate sperm and female subjects must agree not to donate oocytes starting at screening and throughout the study period, and for at least 12 months after treatment discontinuation. 10. Patient with reproductive potential must have a negative pregnancy test ≤3 days prior to the first dose of zanidatamab. Exclusion Criteria An individual who meets any of the following criteria will be excluded from participation in this study: 1. Involvement in the planning and/or conduct of the study. 2. Prior or concurrent malignancy whose natural history or treatment has the potential to interfere with the safety or efficacy assessment of the investigational regimen 3. Has received therapy for this current diagnosis of BC including investigational therapy, endocrine therapy, targeted therapy, or chemotherapy, surgery or radiation. 4. Mean QT interval corrected for heart rate (QTc) ≥ 470 ms. 5. Uncontrolled intercurrent illness including, but not limited to, ongoing or active infection, active peptic ulcer disease or gastritis, active bleeding diatheses, , or psychiatric illness/social situations that would limit compliance with study requirements or compromise the ability of the patient to give written informed consent. 6. Female patients who are pregnant, breast-feeding, or of reproductive potential who are not employing an effective method of birth control. 7. Patients with uncontrolled seizures. 8. Any major surgery for any reason, within 4 weeks of the enrollment. Portacath placement will be allowed. 9. Clinically significant cardiac disease such as ventricular arrhythmia requiring therapy, , myocardial infarction, unstable angina (within 6 months prior to first dose of study drug), any history of cardiac failure, and uncontrolled hypertension (defined as systolic blood pressure \> 150 mmHg and/or diastolic blood pressure \> 100 mmHg on antihypertensive medications). 10. Known active Hepatitis B and/or Hepatitis C. Hepatitis testing is not required unless the patient has a history of Hepatitis B or C. 11. Known to be HIV positive. HIV testing is not required for those patients who are not known to be positive. 12. Total lifetime anthracycline load exceeding 360 mg/m2 doxorubicin or equivalent 13. Any condition that requires systemic treatment with either corticosteroids (\>10 mg daily of prednisone or equivalent) or other immunosuppressive medication ≤14 days prior to randomization. Note: Subjects who are currently or have previously been on any of the following steroid regimens are not excluded: 1. Adrenal replacement steroid (dose ≤10 mg daily of prednisone or equivalent) 2. Topical, ocular, intra-articular, intranasal, or inhaled corticosteroid with minimal systemic absorption\\ 3. Short course (≤7 days) of corticosteroid prescribed prophylactically (e.g., for contrast dye allergy) or for the treatment of a non-autoimmune condition (e.g., delayed-type hypersensitivity reaction caused by contact allergen) 14. History of life-threatening hypersensitivity to monoclonal antibodies or to recombinant proteins or excipients in the drug formulation 15. Known distant metastatic disease including (CNS) metastases, symptomatic CNS metastases, and leptomeningeal disease (LMD). 16. Acute or chronic uncontrolled renal disease, pancreatitis, or liver disease (with exception of subjects with Gilbert's Syndrome, asymptomatic gall stones, liver metastases, or stable chronic liver disease per investigator assessment) 17. Symptomatic pulmonary embolism ≤28 days 18. Administered a live vaccine ≤4 weeks prior to randomization. Patients can get COVID vaccine that are not alive before ot during the study period, with 48 hours between vaccine administration and investigation agent administration.
Study sites (1)
TX
- M D Anderson Cancer Center · Houston, TX 77030Vicente Valero · Study contact · 713-563-0751 · vvalero@mdanderson.orgVicente Valero · Principal investigatorMore trials in Houston