Anastrazole, Fulvestrant & Abemaciclib for HR+HER2- Metastatic Breast Cancer
Phase II, Open-Labeled, Single-Armed Combination Treatment With Anastrozole, Fulvestrant and Abemaciclib for Hormone Receptor Positive, HER2(-) Metastatic Breast Cancer
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
- All sexes
- 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 how well anastrozole, fulvestrant, and abemaciclib work together for advanced breast cancer that uses hormones to grow and is HER2-negative. It is for adults with newly diagnosed advanced cancer or cancer that returned more than 12 months after treatment for earlier breast cancer.
This is a phase 2, open-label, singled-arm clinical trial determining efficacy of combination therapy with anastrozole, fulvestrant and abemaciclib in subjects with breast cancer. These are subjects who are newly diagnosed advanced or metastatic hormone receptor positive breast cancer or subjects who have progressed following treatment free interval of more than 12 months following adjuvant or neoadjuvant treatment.
Compensation is read from the study's own description and may be missing — always confirm with the study team.
Eligibility
Who can join
- Be age 18 or older and have breast cancer that uses estrogen or progesterone to grow.
- Have cancer that has spread or advanced or returned cancer that cannot be cured. If cancer returned after earlier treatment, more than 12 months must have passed since that treatment ended.
- Be able to care for yourself and be out of bed or a chair for at least half the day.
- Have gone through menopause or start medicine to stop the ovaries from making hormones. People who could become pregnant and men must agree to treatment that suppresses ovary or testicle function through 90 days after study treatment.
- Have at least one tumor that can be measured, and blood tests showing that your organs and bone marrow work well enough.
- Be able to swallow pills. Most short-term effects from past chemotherapy or radiation must be mild or gone; hair loss and some nerve damage are allowed.
- If you could become pregnant, start effective birth control by the start of study treatment.
- Be able to sign a consent form and follow study visits and procedures. People of all genders, races, and ethnic groups may join; language, hearing, or reading barriers do not rule you out.
Who can't join
- Have breast cancer that can be cured with surgery or radiation, or have inflammatory breast cancer.
- Had chemotherapy or radiation in the past 12 months, except radiation to ease symptoms. Past fulvestrant use also rules you out, unless it began for the current cancer within 8 weeks before study treatment.
- Are taking an experimental drug or joining other research that conflicts with this study. Recent biologic or antibody treatment requires a waiting period.
- Have a serious health condition that makes joining unsafe or following study rules difficult, such as severe bowel or lung disease, ongoing diarrhea, or certain mental health conditions.
- Have a history of heart-related fainting, certain dangerous heart rhythms, or sudden cardiac arrest.
- Have another cancer, unless it meets the study's exceptions, such as inactive cancer needing no treatment or cancer in full remission without treatment for at least 3 years. A stem cell transplant within the past 5 years also rules you out.
- Have an active bacterial or fungal infection, a detectable viral infection such as HIV or hepatitis, or a history of allergic reactions to drugs like those used in this study.
- Are pregnant or breastfeeding.
Simplified for readability. The official criteria below are what the study team uses.
Official eligibility criteria
Inclusion Criteria: * Patients must have a diagnosis of HR+ breast cancer. To fulfill the requirement of HR+ disease, a breast cancer must express, by immunohistochemistry (IHC), at least one of the hormone receptors (ER, progesterone receptor \[PgR\]) as defined in the relevant American Society of Clinical Oncology/College of American Pathologists Guidelines: For ER and PgR assays to be considered positive, ≥1% of tumor cell nuclei must be immunoreactive by immunohistochemistry (IHC) * Patients must have newly diagnosed metastatic regional breast cancer (Stage IV per AJCC 8th edition criteria for staging of breast cancer) or local-regional advanced or recurrent cancer not amenable to curative treatment 1\. Relapse \> 12 months from completion of (neo)adjuvant endocrine and/or chemotherapy with no treatment for advanced or metastatic disease (patients with no early stage breast cancer neoadjuvant or adjuvant systemic treatment may qualify) * Age ≥ 18 years * ECOG performance status 0-2 * Have post-menopausal status as defined by following: Prior bilateral oophorectomy. Age ≥ 60 years, Age \< 60 and amenorrheic (non-treatment-induced amenorrhea secondary to tamoxifen, toremifene, ovarian suppression, or chemotherapy) for at least 12 months. Follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) and estradiol must be in the postmenopausal range. If patients are pre-menopausal ovarian function suppression will be initiated. * Have at least one measurable disease as defined per RECIST 1.1 * Adequate organ and marrow function as defined below: 1. Hemoglobin \>8 g/dL. Patients may receive transfusion of packed red blood cells (PRBC) to achieve this hemoglobin level at the discretion of the investigator; however, initial study drug treatment must not begin earlier than the day after the PRBC transfusion 2. Absolute neutrophil count ≥1,500/mcL 3. Platelets ≥ 100,000/mcl 4. Total bilirubin ≤ 1.5 X institutional ULN. Patients with Gilbert's syndrome with a total bilirubin ≤2.0 times ULN and direct bilirubin within normal limits are permitted 5. AST (SGOT)/ALT (SPGT) ≤ 2.5 X institutional ULN 6. Creatinine ≤ 1.5 X institutional ULN * Able to swallow oral medications * Patients who received chemotherapy or curative radiotherapy must have recovered (Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events \[CTCAE\] Grade ≤1) from the acute effects of chemotherapy and curative radiotherapy except for residual alopecia (of any grade) or Grade 2 peripheral neuropathy prior to enrollment. * Person of child bearing potential (POCBP) (ie. premenopausal) and men must agree to use ovarian or testicular suppression prior to study entry, for the duration of study participation, and for 90 days following completion of therapy. 1. A post-menopausal female patient is defined by one of the following for female patients: prior bilateral oophorectomy, age ≥ 60 years, age \< 60 and amenorrheic (non-treatment-induced amenorrhea secondary to tamoxifen, toremifene, ovarian suppression, or chemotherapy) for at least 12 months. 2. If follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) and estradiol labs were performed as standard practice within the screening window and the patient is post-menopausal, those lab results must be in the postmenopausal range. These labs are not required to be performed for the study. * POCBP are required to initiate effective contraception by study intervention start. Effective contraception is per the investigator's discretionhild. A POCBP (regardless of sexual orientation, having undergone a tubal ligation, or remaining celibate by choice) is someone who meets at least one of the following criteria: 1. Has not undergone a hysterectomy or bilateral oophorectomy; or 2. Has not been naturally postmenopausal for at least 12 consecutive months (i.e., has had menses at any time in the preceding 12 consecutive months). * Must be able to sign a written informed consent, are reliable, willing to be available for the duration of the study and are willing to follow study procedures. * Both men and women and members of all races and ethnic groups are eligible for this trial. Non-English speaking, deaf, hard of hearing and illiterate individuals are eligible for this trial. Exclusion Criteria: * Localized breast cancer which is curable with surgery or radiation, with or without chemotherapy. This study will utilize the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) staging system, eight edition that provides a strategy for grouping patients with respect to prognosis. The AJCC has designated staging by TNM classification. * Current diagnosis of inflammatory breast cancer * Patients who have had chemotherapy or radiotherapy within 12 months prior to entering the study. (Note: Palliative radiotherapy is does not require a washout Note: For current diagnosis, CDK 4/6 inhibitor and/or endocrine therapy within 8 weeks prior to starting study treatment is allowed). * Prior treatment with Fulvestrant (Note: For the current diagnosis, fulvestrant initiated within 8 weeks prior to starting study intervention is allowed) * Patients are currently receiving an investigational drug in a clinical trial or participating in any other type of medical research judged by the investigator not to be scientifically or medically compatible with this study. If a patient is currently enrolled in a clinical trial involving non-approved use of a device, then agreement with the principal investigator is required to establish eligibility * Have serious pre-existing medical conditions that, in the judgment of the investigator, would preclude participation in this study (for example, history of major surgical resection involving the stomach or small bowel or preexisting Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis , interstitial lung disease, severe dyspnea at rest, any pre-existing chronic condition resulting in baseline grade 2 or higher diarrhea, or psychiatric illness/social situations that would limit compliance with study requirements) * Have a personal history of any of the following conditions: syncope or cardiovascular etiology, ventricular tachycardia, ventricular fibrillation or sudden cardiac arrest * Have a history of any other cancer (except for non-melanoma skin cancer or carcinoma in situ of the cervix) unless in complete remission with no therapy for a minimum of three years or have received an autologous or allogeneic stem-cell transplant ((\> 5 years from stem cell transplant is acceptable). (Patients with non-active cancer not requiring treatment are allowed to be enrolled on the study) * Have an active bacterial or fungal infection or a detectable viral infection (for example HIV or viral hepatitis). Screening is not required for enrollment * Recent therapy with a biologic agent or a monoclonal therapy is excluded. Wash out of at least three half-lives of monoclonal antibody would be required to be enrolled. * History of allergic reactions attributed to compounds of similar chemical or biologic composition to CDK4/6 inhibitors or other agents used in study. * Patients who are pregnant or nursing due to the potential for congenital abnormalities and the potential of this regimen to harm nursing infants.
Study sites (1)
CA
- Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, Irvine · Orange, CA 92868Ritesh Parajuli, MD · Study contact · 877-827-8839 · ucstudy@uci.eduMore trials in Orange