RecruitingPhase 1 / Phase 2

ProAgio in Combination With Gemcitabine in Patients With Metastatic Triple Negative Breast Cancer

Phase I/II Trial Evaluating the Safety and Efficacy of ProAgio, an Anti- αvβ3 Integrin Cytotoxin, in Combination With Gemcitabine in Patients With Metastatic Triple Negative 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 ProAgio with gemcitabine in adults with triple-negative breast cancer that has spread to other parts of the body. It looks at how safe the treatment is and how well it works after at least two prior treatments.

This is a Phase I/II Trial Evaluating the Safety and Efficacy of ProAgio, an anti- αvβ3 Integrin Cytotoxin, in Combination with Gemcitabine in Patients with Metastatic Triple Negative Breast Cancer

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 with confirmed breast cancer that has spread. The cancer must have low or no estrogen and progesterone receptors (less than 10%) and be HER2-negative.
  • Have had at least two drug treatments for advanced cancer. Treatment for cancer that could be removed by surgery may count if the cancer worsened within 12 months. Your last cancer drug treatment must have ended more than 14 days ago.
  • Be able to care for yourself and be out of bed or a chair for at least half of your waking hours.
  • Have blood counts and liver and kidney function that meet the study's limits.
  • Agree to provide stored tumor tissue from a site where cancer has spread. If a tumor is easy to reach and your doctor recommends it, agree to tissue samples before treatment and during cycle 2.
  • Cancer in the brain or spinal cord must meet the study's treatment and stability rules, including no growth for at least 4 weeks after local treatment. Possible symptoms, such as new headaches, require a brain MRI.
  • Agree to birth control or not having sex before, during, and for 6 months after treatment if you or your partner could become pregnant. Be able and willing to sign the study consent form.
  • In the dose-finding part, cancer only in the bones or cancer that cannot be measured is allowed. In the later part, the cancer must be measurable.

Who can't join

  • Past gemcitabine treatment for breast cancer that had spread.
  • A platelet transfusion within 7 days before treatment starts. Platelets help blood clot.
  • Heart problems that do not meet the study's heart function rules. If you had heart failure with pumping strength below 50%, a test within the past 12 months must show it above 50%.
  • A heart rhythm test showing a QTc interval longer than 480 milliseconds. This measures part of the heart's electrical recovery time.
  • A long-term nerve or brain disorder that causes movement or vision problems or seizures and could make it hard to judge the study drug's side effects.
  • Being pregnant or breastfeeding.
  • Major surgery less than 28 days before joining.
  • Uncontrolled bleeding less than 28 days before joining.

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

Official eligibility criteria

Inclusion Criteria: * Adult participants, ≥ 18 years of age, with histologically or cytologically confirmed metastatic breast cancer that is estrogen receptor (ER) negative (less than 10%), progesterone receptor (PR) negative (less than 10%), and HER2 negative/unamplified as per ASCO/CAP guidelines (Wolff et al., 2018). If ER/PR less than 10%, prior endocrine therapy is permitted, and the participant is not considered appropriate for hormone based therapy. Participants must agree to provide archival tumor material from metastatic site (most recent archival tumor tissue immediately prior to enrollment is strongly preferred) and must agree to undergo research tumor biopsy before treatment and during cycle 2 at the same site of metastatic disease, if presence of easily accessible lesion, at the discretion of the treating physician. * Participants must have received at least two lines of prior systemic treatment for advanced disease. If participants received systemic therapy in the operable setting and the tumor progressed within 12 months of the receipt of the last dose of systemic therapy, this will be considered one line of prior systemic therapy for advance disease. Participants must be more than 14 days removed from most recent standard of care or experimental drug treatment for their tumor. * ECOG performance status ≤2 * Participants must have adequate organ and marrow function as defined below: * Absolute neutrophil count ≥1,500/mcL * Hemoglobin ≥9 g/ dL (recent transfusion allowed) * Platelets ≥100,000/mcL * AST(SGOT)/ALT(SGPT) ≤3 x ULN. AST and ALT (up to 5x ULN is permitted for participants with liver metastases) * Total bilirubin ≤1.5 x institutional ULN * Creatinine clearance ≥60 mL/min (measured using Cockcroft- Gault equation or the estimated glomerular filtration rate) * Participants with CNS metastases must be treated and/or stable (no progression for at least 4 weeks after local prior therapy as ascertained by clinical examination and brain imaging (MRI or CT) during the screening period). Those with symptoms suggestive of possible CNS metastases (such as new headaches) must undergo brain MRI as part of screening. * Patients with a prior or concurrent malignancy whose natural history or treatment does not have the potential to interfere with the safety or efficacy assessment of the investigational regimen are eligible for this trial. * The effects of ProAgio on the developing human fetus are unknown. For this reason, women of child-bearing potential and men must agree to use adequate contraception (hormonal or barrier method of birth control; abstinence) prior to study entry, for the duration of study participation and for the 6 months following the last dosing of study drug. Should a woman become pregnant or suspect she is pregnant while she or her partner is participating in this study, she should inform her treating physician immediately. * During dose escalation, participants with bone only and/or non-measurable disease are eligible. During dose expansion, only participants with measurable disease are eligible. * Ability of subject to understand and the willingness to sign a written informed consent document. Exclusion Criteria: * Participants who have had prior treatment with gemcitabine in the metastatic setting. * Platelet transfusion within 7 days prior to treatment start. * Participants with known history or current symptoms of cardiac disease, or history of treatment with cardiotoxic agents, should have a clinical risk assessment of cardiac function using the New York Heart Association Functional Classification. To be eligible for this trial, patients should be class 2B or better. Patients with history of known congestive heart failure (left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) \<50%) must have documented LVEF \>50% within 12 months of study enrollment. * Prolonged QTc interval \>480 msec on screening EKG * Participants with known diagnosis of a chronic neurologic disorders (such as multiple sclerosis, Huntington's disease, Parkinson's disease, or uncontrolled epilepsy) which causes motor disturbance, visual disturbance, or seizure and could confound assessment of neurologic toxicity caused by the study drug. * Pregnant or nursing women are excluded from this study because ProAgio is an agent with the potential for teratogenic or abortifacient effects. Because there is an unknown but potential risk for adverse events in nursing infants secondary to treatment of the mother with ProAgio, breastfeeding should be discontinued if the mother is treated with ProAgio. * Participants who have undergone a major surgical procedure (within \< 28 days) are excluded. * Participants with uncontrolled bleeding episodes \<28 days prior to enrollment are excluded.

Study sites (2)

GA