Carboplatin and Nab-Paclitaxel With or Without Vorinostat in Treating Women With Newly Diagnosed Operable Breast Cancer

Breast Cancer Clinical Trial

Official title:

A Multi-Institutional Double-Blind Phase II Study Evaluating Response and Surrogate Biomarkers to Carboplatin and Nab-Paclitaxel (CP) With or Without Vorinostat as Preoperative Chemotherapy in HER2-negative Primary Operable Breast Cancer

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Active, not recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00616967
• Other study ID #: J0785
• Secondary ID: P30CA006973NA_00
• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Phase: Phase 2
• Start date: May 2008
• Est. completion date: February 2025

Study information

• Verified date: February 2024
• Source: Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as carboplatin and paclitaxel albumin-stabilized nanoparticle formulation, work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. Vorinostat may stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking some of the enzymes needed for cell growth. Vorinostat may also help carboplatin and paclitaxel albumin-stabilized nanoparticle formulation work better by making tumor cells more sensitive to the drugs. Giving chemotherapy with or without vorinostat before surgery may make the tumor smaller and reduce the amount of normal tissue that needs to be removed.

PURPOSE: This randomized phase II trial is studying how well giving carboplatin together with paclitaxel albumin-stabilized nanoparticle formulation works with or without vorinostat in treating women with breast cancer that can be removed by surgery.

Description:

OBJECTIVES:

Primary

• To determine pathological complete response (pCR) rates in patients with HER2-negative primary operable breast cancer treated with neoadjuvant therapy comprising carboplatin and paclitaxel albumin-stabilized nanoparticle formulation (CP) with vs without vorinostat.

Secondary

• To evaluate the safety of these regimens in these patients.

• To estimate clinical complete response (cCR) rates in patients treated with these regimens.

• To correlate baseline and change (day 15) in surrogate uptake values (SUV) on FDG-PET with pathological and clinical response in patients treated with these regimens, and to determine what percent of women with ≥ 25% or ≥ 50% reduction in SUV on day 15 achieve a pCR and a cCR to CP with vs without vorinostat.

• To correlate baseline and change in markers of proliferation with pathological and clinical response in patients treated with these regimens.

• To evaluate long term outcomes (e.g., recurrence of the breast cancer, development of a new cancer, or death) for patients treated with these regimens.

Tertiary

• To evaluate baseline and change in candidate gene methylation and expression profiles.

• To evaluate baseline and change in tissue and peripheral blood mononuclear cell histone acetylation.

• To compare cCR and pCR in women with basal-like features versus other subtypes.

OUTLINE: This is a multicenter, randomized, double-blind, phase II study (primary study portion) with a 6-12 patient run-in portion.

• Run-in portion: Patients receive carboplatin IV and paclitaxel albumin-stabilized nanoparticle formulation IV on day 1 and oral vorinostat on days 1-3. Treatment repeats weekly for 12 weeks in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Once safety of the combination of chemotherapy and vorinostat is confirmed, subsequently enrolled patients are entered to the primary study portion.

• Primary study portion: Patients are stratified by hormone receptor status (estrogen receptor [ER]-negative and progesterone receptor [PR]-negative vs ER-positive and/or PR-positive). Patients are randomized to 1 of 2 treatment arms.

• Arm I: Patients receive carboplatin IV and paclitaxel albumin-stabilized nanoparticle formulation IV on day 1 and an oral placebo on days 1-3. Treatment repeats weekly for 12 weeks in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.

• Arm II: Patients receive carboplatin and paclitaxel albumin-stabilized nanoparticle formulation as in arm I and oral vorinostat on days 1-3. Treatment repeats weekly for 12 weeks in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.

Within 2-4 weeks after completion of neoadjuvant chemotherapy, patients undergo breast conserving surgery or mastectomy at the discretion of the treating physician.

Patients undergo tumor tissue biopsy at baseline, day 15, and at the time of definitive surgery. Samples are analyzed by immunohistochemistry (IHC), RNA extraction, and gene expression analysis using RT-PCR to identify candidate markers for response and molecular profiles that may be relevant to an understanding of drug mechanisms. Methylation of relevant genes (e.g., ERalpha, APC-1, RARbeta, cyclin D2, Twist, RASSF1A, and HIN-1) are evaluated by quantitative multiplex methylation-specific PCR. Changes in gene expression as a result of treatment are determined by IHC or quantitative RT-PCR. Blood samples are collected at baseline, day 15, at the time of definitive surgery, and 4 weeks after surgery for DNA methylation studies, pharmacogenomic studies, and histone acetylation assays. Patients also undergo fludeoxyglucose F 18-positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) or PET/CT at baseline and day 15 to assess treatment response as measured by standardized uptake values.

After completion of study treatment, patients are followed every 6 months.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Enrollment: 68
• Est. completion date: February 2025
• Est. primary completion date: June 2014
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Female
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

• Histologically confirmed infiltrating ductal breast cancer by core needle biopsy

• Mixed ductal and lobular disease allowed

• Infiltrating lobular cancer allowed in the run-in portion only

• Unresected, clinically measurable disease, meeting 1 of the following clinical staging criteria:

• T2, T3, or T4 lesion, any N, M0

• T1c, N1-3,M0

• Patients with skin metastases to the ipsilateral breast for whom chemotherapy is planned prior to definitive surgery are eligible for the primary study portion

• HER2-negative disease

• Hormone receptor status* meeting 1 of the following criteria:

• Estrogen receptor (ER)-negative and progesterone receptor (PR)-negative

• ER-positive (grade II or III) and PR-positive or PR-negative NOTE: *Any ER or PR status for the run-in portion

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

• ECOG performance status 0-1

• Menopausal status not specified

• ANC = 1,500/mm³

• Platelet count = 150,000/mm³

• Hemoglobin = 9 g/dL

• Creatinine = 1.5 times the upper limit of normal (ULN)

• Creatinine clearance = 50 mL/min

• Total bilirubin normal

• AST(SGOT) and ALT(SGPT) = 2.5 times (ULN)

• alkaline phosphatase = 2.5 times ULN

• PT such that INR = 1.5 (or an in-range INR, usually between 2 and 3, if a patient is on a stable dose of therapeutic warfarin) and PTT = ULN

• Adequate cardiac function defined as no evidence of PR prolongation or AV block on baseline electrocardiogram (ECG)

• Willing to use effective, non-hormonal contraception while on treatment and for at least 3 months thereafter

• Not pregnant or nursing

• No pre-existing peripheral neuropathy = grade 2

• No history of severe hypersensitivity reaction to any drug formulated with polysorbate 80 or to E. coli-derived products

• No history of allergic reactions attributed to compounds of similar chemical or biologic composition to vorinostat

• No medical condition which, in the opinion of the investigator, puts the patient at risk of potentially serious complications while on this therapy

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

• At least 4 weeks since prior valproic acid or other histone deacetylase inhibitor

• No prior chemotherapy, radiotherapy, or endocrine therapy for this cancer

• Prior tamoxifen or raloxifene or another agent for prevention of breast cancer allowed as long as the patient has discontinued the treatment = 1 month prior to baseline study biopsy

• No systemic treatment for prior cancer within the past 5 years (primary study portion)

• No prior or ongoing systemic treatment for this cancer (primary study portion)

• No concurrent combination antiretroviral therapy for HIV-positive patients

• No other concurrent histone deacetylase inhibitor

• No other concurrent chemotherapy, antiestrogen therapy, radiotherapy, or other investigational systemic therapy

• No other concurrent biologic therapy

• No other concurrent investigational drugs

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Breast Cancer
• Breast Neoplasms

Intervention

Drug:
• carboplatin
Given IV
• paclitaxel albumin-stabilized nanoparticle formulation
Given IV
• vorinostat
Given orally

Other:
• placebo
Given orally

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Anne Arundel Health System	Annapolis	Maryland
United States	Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins	Baltimore	Maryland
United States	University of Alabama Comprehensive Cancer Center	Birmingham	Alabama
United States	Indiana University Purdue University of Indianapolis	Indianapolis	Indiana
United States	Mayo Clinic Cancer Center	Rochester	Minnesota

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins	National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

References & Publications (2)

Connolly RM, Fackler MJ, Zhang Z, Zhou XC, Goetz MP, Boughey JC, Walsh B, Carpenter JT, Storniolo AM, Watkins SP, Gabrielson EW, Stearns V, Sukumar S. Tumor and serum DNA methylation in women receiving preoperative chemotherapy with or without vorinostat — View Citation

Connolly RM, Leal JP, Goetz MP, Zhang Z, Zhou XC, Jacobs LK, Mhlanga J, O JH, Carpenter J, Storniolo AM, Watkins S, Fetting JH, Miller RS, Sideras K, Jeter SC, Walsh B, Powers P, Zorzi J, Boughey JC, Davidson NE, Carey LA, Wolff AC, Khouri N, Gabrielson E — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Pathological Complete Response (pCR) Rate	The primary end point was pCR, defined as no viable invasive cancer in breast and axilla. All other cases were defined as non-pCR. The pCR rate was determined in each arm separately by performing an intent-to-treat (ITT) analysis of all randomized patients. Patients with unknown pCR status were considered non-responders. Computation of associated 90% confidence intervals did not account for the sequential design.	Time of breast cancer surgery
Secondary	Safety as Measured by Number of Participants Who Experience Adverse Events	Number of participants who experience adverse events as defined by NCI CTCAE version 3.0	up to 30 days post-treatment
Secondary	Number of Participants With Clinical Complete Response (cCR)	cCR in the breast on physical is defined as the absence of any palpable abnormality on breast exam Iie: no skin or breast thickening, mass or associated skin or nipple changes)	12 weeks
Secondary	Change in Standard Uptake Value (SULmax) From Baseline to Day 15 on FDG-PET	Change in standard uptake value (SULmax) as measured by percentage reduction of SULmax. The standard uptake value used for the PET analysis was SULmax, which is the standard uptake value normalized for lean body mass.	Baseline and day 15
Secondary	Absolute Change From Baseline in Ki-67		Change from baseline to Cycle 1-Day 15
Secondary	Change in Cumulative Methylation Index (CMI)	Change of CMI from baseline to Day 15 (D15), defined as log(D15 CMI + 1/baseline CMI + 1). The CMI was calculated as a sum of all gene-specific methylation indexes within a panel of 10 genes which included: HIST1H3C, AKR1B1, GPX7, HOXB4, TMEFF2, RASGRF2, COL6A2, ARHGEF7, TM6SF1, and RASSF1A.	Change from baseline to Day 15
Secondary	Cumulative Methylation Index (CMI) at Day 15		Day 15
Secondary	Number of Participants Who Experience Death During Treatment		Up to 12 weeks
Secondary	Number of Participants Who Develop New Cancer		Up to death of last participant (duration unknown)
Secondary	Number of Participants With Recurrence of Breast Cancer		Up to death of last participant (duration unknown)
Secondary	Overall Survival		Up to death of last participant (duration unknown)