Study of Safety and Efficacy of Dapagliflozin + Metformin XR Versus Metformin XR in Participants With HR+, HER2-, Advanced Breast Cancer While on Treatment With Alpelisib and Fulvestrant

Breast Cancer Clinical Trial

— EPIK-B4  

Official title:

EPIK-B4: A Phase II, Multicenter, Randomized, Open-label, Active-controlled Study to Assess the Safety and Efficacy of Dapagliflozin + Metformin XR Versus Metformin XR During Treatment With Alpelisib (BYL719) in Combination With Fulvestrant in Participants With HR+, HER2-, Advanced Breast Cancer With a PIK3CA Mutation Following Progression on/After Endocrine-based Therapy

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Terminated

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04899349
• Other study ID #: CBYL719C2202
• Status: Terminated
• Phase: Phase 2
• Start date: April 6, 2022
• Est. completion date: May 10, 2023

Study information

• Verified date: November 2023
• Source: Novartis
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This study was designed to assess the safety and efficacy of the combination of dapagliflozin plus metformin extended release (XR) compared with metformin XR during treatment with alpelisib plus fulvestrant in participants with Hormone Receptor (HR)-positive, Human Epidermal growth factor Receptor-2 (HER2)-negative advanced breast cancer with a Phosphoinositide-3-Kinase Catalytic subunit Alpha (PIK3CA) mutation following progression on or after endocrine-based therapy.

Description:

This was a multicenter, randomized, open-label, active-controlled trial, stratified by diabetic status at baseline (i.e., normal vs prediabetic/diabetic based on fasting plasma glucose (FPG) and/or Hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) laboratory values). The study included only participants with at least one baseline risk factor for the development of severe hyperglycemia which were diabetes (FPG ≥ 126 milligram (mg)/deciliter (dL) or ≥ 7.0 millimole (mmol)/liter (L) and/or HbA1c ≥ 6.5%), prediabetes (FPG ≥ 100 mg/dL to < 126 mg/dL or 5.6 to < 7.0 mmol/L and/or HbA1c 5.7 to < 6.5%), obesity (body mass index [BMI] ≥ 30) and age (≥ 75 years).

The planned duration of treatment with alpelisib and fulvestrant was 12 cycles (28 days in each cycle) or until disease progression, unacceptable toxicity, or discontinuation from study treatment for any other reason, whichever came first.

Approximately 66 participants in each treatment arm were planned to be randomized to receive the combination of alpelisib and fulvestrant with either dapagliflozin plus metformin extended release (XR) or metformin XR alone. As a result of the early termination of the study due to emerging data demonstrating the impact of prophylactic metformin and slow recruitment, only 2 participants were enrolled in the study.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Terminated
• Enrollment: 2
• Est. completion date: May 10, 2023
• Est. primary completion date: May 10, 2023
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Key Inclusion Criteria:

• Participant had a histologically and/or cytologically confirmed diagnosis of estrogen receptor positive (ER+) and/or progesterone receptor positive (PgR+) breast cancer by a local laboratory.

• Participant had a PIK3CA mutation(s) present in the tumor prior to enrollment.

• Participant had prior treatment with an endocrine-based treatment (e.g. letrozole, anastrozole, exemestane, fulvestrant, or oral SERD) and may have fallen into one of the following categories:

1. Relapsed with documented evidence of progression while on (neo) adjuvant endocrine-based therapy or within 12 months from completion of (neo) adjuvant endocrine-based therapy with no treatment for metastatic disease.

2. Relapsed with documented evidence of progression more than 12 months from completion of (neo) adjuvant endocrine-based therapy and then subsequently progressed with documented evidence of progression while on or after only one line of endocrine-based therapy for metastatic disease.

3. Newly diagnosed advanced breast cancer, then relapsed with documented evidence of progression while on or after only one line of endocrine-based therapy.

Note: Participants with newly diagnosed endocrine-based treatment naïve advanced breast cancer were NOT included in the study.

• Participants might or might not have received prior CDK4/6i therapy. If prior CDK4/6i therapy was administered, it may have been in the adjuvant or metastatic setting.

• If female, the participant was postmenopausal.

• Participant had an Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0 or 1.

• Participant had adequate bone marrow and organ function.

Key Exclusion Criteria:

• Participant relapsed with documented evidence of progression more than 12 months from completion of (neo) adjuvant endocrine therapy with no treatment for metastatic disease.

• Participant had more than 1 line of prior treatment in the metastatic setting.

• Participant had received prior treatment with chemotherapy (except for neoadjuvant/adjuvant chemotherapy), any PI3K, Mammalian Target of Rapamycin (mTOR) or Protein Kinase B (Akt) inhibitor.

• Participant had inflammatory breast cancer at screening.

• Participants with an established diagnosis of diabetes mellitus type I or participants with type II diabetes mellitus requiring antihyperglycemic therapy.

• Participant had a history of acute pancreatitis within 1 year of screening or a past medical history of chronic pancreatitis.

• Participant had currently documented pneumonitis/interstitial lung disease.

• Participant had a history of severe cutaneous reaction, such as Steven-Johnson Syndrome (SJS), erythema multiforme (EM), Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis (TEN) or Drug Reaction with Eosinophilia and Systemic Syndrome (DRESS).

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Breast Cancer
• Breast Neoplasms

Intervention

Drug:
• Alpelisib
Alpelisib (tablets) administered at 300mg orally once daily on a continuous dosing schedule starting on Cycle 1 Day 8 in a 28 days cycle.
• Fulvestrant
Fulvestrant (prefilled syringe) 500mg administered intramuscularly at Cycle 1 Day 1 and 15 after randomization and then at Day 1 of each subsequent cycle during the randomized treatment phase.
• Metformin XR
Metformin XR (tablets) administered at a starting dose of 500mg orally once daily on a continuous dosing schedule starting on Cycle 1 Day 1 in a 28 days cycle. Dose titration from 500 mg once a day to 2000 mg once a day.
• Dapagliflozin + metformin XR
Dapagliflozin + metformin XR administered as a single tablet combination at a starting dose of 5 mg dapagliflozin + 500 mg metformin XR orally once daily on a continuous dosing schedule starting on Cycle 1 Day 1 in a 28 days cycle. Dose titration from 5 mg dapagliflozin + 500 mg metformin XR orally once daily to 10 mg dapagliflozin + 2000 mg metformin XR once daily
• Dapagliflozin
Dapagliflozin (tablet) at a starting dose of 5mg orally once daily on a continuous dosing schedule starting on Cycle 1 Day 1 in a 28 days cycle. Dose titration from 5 mg to 10 mg once daily

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Malaysia	Novartis Investigative Site	Kuala Lumpur
United States	Washington Uni School of Med Siteman Cancer Center	Saint Louis	Missouri

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Novartis Pharmaceuticals

Countries where clinical trial is conducted

United States,  Malaysia, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Number of Participants With Hyperglycemia Grade = 3 Over the First Eight Weeks of Alpelisib Plus Fulvestrant Treatment	Number of participants with severe hyperglycemia over the first eight weeks of alpelisib plus fulvestrant treatment. Severe hyperglycemia (Grade = 3) is defined as any glucose laboratory values > 250 milligram (mg)/ deciliter (dL) (> 13.9 millimole (mmol)/ liter (L))	From Cycle 1 Day 8 to Cycle 3 Day 8 (first eight weeks of treatment with alpelisib). Cycle = 28 days.
Secondary	Progression-free Survival (PFS) Based on Local Investigator Assessment	PFS was defined as the time from the date of randomization to the date of the first documented progression or death due to any cause. PFS was assessed via a local investigator assessment according to RECIST 1.1. If a subject did not have an event, PFS was censored at the date of last adequate tumor assessment.; The PFS distribution was using the Kaplan-Meier method, and the Kaplan-Meier median and 95% confidence intervals of the medians was presented.	From the date of randomization to the date of the first documented progression or death due to any cause, whichever comes first, assessed up to a maximum duration of 7.4 months
Secondary	Overall Response Rate (ORR) With Confirmed Response Based on Local Investigator Assessment as Per RECIST 1.1.	ORR with confirmed response was defined as the percentage of participants with best overall response of confirmed complete response (CR) or confirmed partial response (PR) based on local investigator's assessment according to RECIST 1.1.; CR: Disappearance of all non-nodal target lesions and all non-target lesions. In addition, any pathological lymph nodes assigned as target lesions and all lymph nodes assigned as non-target lesions must have a reduction in short axis to < 10 mm.; PR: At least a 30% decrease in the sum of diameter of all target lesions, taking as reference the baseline sum of diameters.	Up to 7.4 months
Secondary	Clinical Benefit Rate (CBR) With Confirmed Response Based on Local Investigator Assessment as Per RECIST 1.1	Clinical benefit rate with confirmed response was defined as the percentage of participants with a best overall response of confirmed CR or confirmed PR or stable disease (SD) or Non-CR/Non-progressive disease (PD) lasting more than 24 weeks based on local investigator assessment as per RECIST 1.1.; CR: Disappearance of all non-nodal target lesions and all non-target lesions. In addition, any pathological lymph nodes assigned as target lesions and all lymph nodes assigned as non-target lesions must have a reduction in short axis to < 10 mm.; PR: At least a 30% decrease in the sum of diameter of all target lesions, taking as reference the baseline sum of diameters.; SD: Neither sufficient shrinkage to qualify for PR or CR nor an increase in lesions which would qualify for progressive disease.	Up to 7.4 months
Secondary	Number of Participants With Dose Modifications	Number of participants with dose interruptions and dose reductions	From first dose of study medication up to 30 days after last dose of study medication, assessed up to 7.4 months