RecruitingPhase 3

Study of the Bria-IMT Regimen and CPI vs Physicians' Choice in Advanced Metastatic Breast Cancer.

Randomized, Open-Label Study of the Bria-IMT Regimen and Check Point Inhibitor vs Physicians' Choice in Advanced 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

  • Procedures mentioned: Infusions

Only what the study's summary and detailed description on ClinicalTrials.gov say. Time periods may describe the whole study or a part of it — ask the study team what applies to you.

Show the study's own words
  • "The Bria-IMT regimen includes: Day -2 or -3 Cyclophosphamide 300mg/m2 Day 0 SV-BR-1-GM given intradermally divided into 4 inoculations Day 1-3 CPI infusion plus interferon intra-dermally within each Bria-IMT inoculation site"
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 whether Bria-IMT plus retifanlimab helps people live longer than treatment chosen by the patient and doctor. It is for adults with breast cancer that has spread or come back nearby and cannot be treated locally, with no approved treatment options left.

This is a multicenter randomized, open label study to evaluate overall survival with the Bria-IMT regimen in combination with Checkpoint Inhibitor \[Retifanlimab\], versus Treatment of Patients'/Physicians' Choice (TPC) in advanced metastatic or locally recurrent breast cancer (aMBC) patients with no approved alternative therapies available.

Compensation is read from the study's own description and may be missing — always confirm with the study team.

Eligibility

Who can join

  • Be at least 18 and sign a form agreeing to join.
  • Have breast cancer confirmed by a tissue test. The cancer must have spread or come back nearby, and past treatment must have failed.
  • Have no useful treatment options left. Cancer that has come back nearby must not be treatable with local treatment.
  • Have had the required treatments for your cancer type. HER2-positive cancer requires at least 3 treatment plans, including at least 2 HER2-targeted treatments and chemotherapy. HER2-low cancer requires at least 1 approved HER2-targeted drug.
  • For hormone-sensitive cancer, the cancer must have grown despite 2 hormone drugs given in separate treatment courses. HER2-negative cancer requires at least 2 chemotherapy plans and failed hormone treatment, if needed.
  • For triple-negative cancer, have used all treatments meant to cure it, including at least 2 chemotherapy plans. If the cancer has a gene change that can be targeted, have tried all indicated targeted treatments, if tolerated.
  • If cancer has spread to the brain, scans must show no growth for at least 4 weeks, with no steroids needed or used for at least 2 weeks. Tumors must not press on certain brain areas or a major artery. Any brain surgery must be healed and at least 3 weeks earlier.
  • Be expected to live at least 4 months. Be able to care for yourself and be out of bed or a chair for more than half of waking hours, even if unable to work.

Who can't join

  • Chemotherapy, immune treatment, or major surgery within 21 days; radiation within 14 days; or a live vaccine within 28 days before treatment. Banned medicines or another trial may also prevent joining.
  • Side effects from past treatment that have not improved enough, or certain severe side effects from past checkpoint inhibitors, a type of immune treatment. Some treated or stable side effects are allowed.
  • An allergy to any planned study treatment, beef, or ingredients used to make the study treatment.
  • Blood counts, kidney or liver tests, blood-clotting tests, or urine protein levels outside the study's limits.
  • Certain serious heart problems or abnormal heart tests; moderate or worse fluid around the heart; or fluid around the lungs or in the belly causing symptoms, unless stable after treatment.
  • Pregnancy or breastfeeding. People who can have or father a child must take steps to prevent pregnancy. Those who can become pregnant also need a negative blood pregnancy test within 7 days before treatment.
  • Certain other cancers; uncontrolled HIV or signs of AIDS; a weakened immune system; recent immune-suppressing medicines; autoimmune disease needing treatment in the past year; active hepatitis A, B, or C; or an infection needing treatment throughout the body within 14 days.
  • Severe mental illness or another major medical problem that is getting worse, unless the study doctor and medical monitor approve.

Simplified for readability. The official criteria below are what the study team uses.

Official eligibility criteria

Inclusion Criteria: 1. Be ≥ 18 years of age. 2. Have signed informed consent. 3. Have histological confirmation of breast cancer with either locally recurrent unresectable and/or metastatic lesions, and have failed prior therapy: * Patients with persistent disease and local recurrence must not be amenable to local treatment. * For patients with metastatic disease, late-stage MBC with no meaningful alternative therapies available and the following class specific treatment histories: 1. Human epidermal growth factor 2 (HER2) positive must be previously treated with at least 3 regimens containing at least two anti-HER2 and at least one chemotherapy containing regimen. 2. Estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PR) positive tumors: must be refractory to hormonal therapy demonstrated by progression on at least 2 hormonal agents in 2 separate lines of hormone directed therapy. 3. Triple Negative tumors: Must have exhausted all curative intent therapies including at least 2 prior chemotherapy regimens, which can include regimens in neoadjuvant and adjuvant settings. 4. Cancers with known germline or genomic actionable targets, e.g. g/mBRCA, must have been treated with all tumor directed indicated treatment e.g. PARPi, if tolerated. 5. HER2 low patients, in addition to the appropriate therapies based on ER/PR status and germline or genomic actionable targets, must also have received at least one HER2-targeted agent approved for treatment of HER2 low patients. 6. HER2 negative tumors must be refractory to hormonal therapy (if indicated) and previously treated with at least 2 chemotherapy regimens. 7. Patients with new or progressive breast cancer metastatic to the brain will be eligible provided: * The brain metastases must be clinically stable (without evidence of progressive disease by imaging for at least 4 weeks prior to first dose) * There is no need for steroids and patients have not had steroids for at least 2 weeks prior to the first dose * Tumor is not impinging on Middle Cerebral Artery/speech-motor strip * If surgically debulked, must be healed with at least 3 weeks since surgery prior to the first dose 4. Has expected survival of at least 4 months. 5. ECOG performance status of 0, 1 or 2 Exclusion Criteria: 1. Concurrent or recent chemotherapy, immunotherapy or major surgery within 21 days prior to the first dose. 2. Radiotherapy within 14 days of the first dose of study treatment. 3. Toxicity of prior therapy that has not recovered to ≤ Grade 1 or baseline (with the exception of any grade of alopecia and anemia not requiring transfusion support). 4. Any toxicity to prior CPI that was grade 3 or higher unless it has been successfully treated (e.g. hypothyroidism or hypopituitarism treated with replacement therapy), . 5. Toxicity to prior CPI that has not resolved to grade 1 or less except for stable asymptomatic endocrinopathies. 6. History of clinical hypersensitivity to the designated therapy as specified in the protocol, including the proposed TPC, beef, or to any components used in the preparation of SV- BR-1-GM. 7. History of hypersensitivity to any of the therapies proposed for treatment in this study. 8. Serum creatinine OR Measured OR calculated Creatinine Clearance (CrCl) (GFR can also be used in place of creatinine or CrCl) \>2.0 × ULN or \<30 mL/min for participants with creatinine levels \>2.0 × institutional ULN. 9. Absolute granulocyte count \<1000; platelets \<80,000; hemoglobin ≤ 7 g/L. 10. Bilirubin ≥ 2 × ULN unless conjugated bilirubin ≤ ULN; alkaline phosphatase \>5x upper limit of normal (ULN); ALT/AST \>3x ULN. For patients with hepatic metastases, ALT/AST \>5x ULN is exclusionary. 11. INR or PT or aPTT \> 1.8 × ULN, unless the participant is receiving anticoagulant therapy as long as PT or aPTT is within therapeutic range of intended use of anticoagulants. 12. Receiving any medication listed in the prohibited medication section of the protocol. 13. Proteinuria \>2+ on urinalysis 14. A history or presence of an abnormal electrocardiogram (ECG) that, in the Investigator's opinion, is clinically meaningful. Screening corrected QT interval (QTc) interval \>480 milliseconds is excluded (corrected by Fridericia or Bazett formula). In the event that a single QTc is \>480 milliseconds, the participant may enroll if the average QTc for the 3 ECGs is \<480 milliseconds. 15. New York Heart Association stage 3 or 4 cardiac disease. 16. A pericardial effusion of moderate severity or worse. 17. Symptomatic pleural effusion or ascites. A participant who is clinically stable following treatment for these conditions (including therapeutic thoraco- or paracentesis) is eligible. 18. Any woman of childbearing potential (i.e., has had a menstrual cycle within the past year and has not been surgically sterilized), unless she agrees to take appropriate precautions to avoid becoming pregnant during the study and has a negative serum pregnancy test within 7 days prior to starting treatment. 19. Men must have been sterile or, if they were potentially fertile/reproductively competent, should take appropriate precautions to avoid fathering a child for the duration of the study. 20. Women who are pregnant or nursing. 21. Known additional malignancy that is progressing or requires active treatment, or history of other malignancy within 2 years of study entry with the exception of cured basal cell or squamous cell carcinoma of the skin, superficial bladder cancer, prostate intraepithelial neoplasm, carcinoma in situ of the cervix, or other noninvasive or indolent malignancy, or cancers from which the participant has been disease-free for \> 1 year, after treatment with curative intent. 22. Patients who have uncontrolled HIV or have clinical or laboratory features indicative of AIDS. 23. Have a diagnosis of immunodeficiency or is receiving chronic systemic steroid therapy (doses exceeding 10 mg daily of prednisone equivalent) or any other form of immunosuppressive therapy within 7 days prior to the first dose of study treatment. 24. Have an active autoimmune disease that has required systemic treatment in past year (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 allowed. 25. Known active HAV, HBV, or HCV infection, as defined by elevated transaminases with the following serology: positivity for HAV IgM antibody, anti-HCV, anti-HBc IgG or IgM, or HBsAg (in the absence of prior immunization). 26. Active infections requiring systemic therapy within the past 14 days. 27. Patients with severe psychiatric disease (e.g., schizophrenia, bipolar, or borderline personality disorder) or other clinically progressive major medical problems, unless approved by the Investigator in consultation with the Medical Monitor. 28. Has received a live vaccine within 28 days of the first dose of study drug. 29. Patients may not be on a concurrent clinical trial, unless approved by the Investigator.

Study sites (79)

AZ

CA

CT

FL

GA

IL

IN

KS

LA

MD

MN

NC

NE

NH

NJ

NY

OH

TX

VA

WA

WI