Palbociclib / Letrozole or Fulvestrant in African American Women With HR+ HER2- Breast Cancer

Hormone Receptor Positive HER-2 Negative Breast Cancer Clinical Trial

— PALINA  

Official title:

Phase II Safety Study of Palbociclib in Combination With Letrozole or Fulvestrant in African American Women With Hormone Receptor Positive HER2 Negative Advanced Breast Cancer

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02692755
• Other study ID #: 2015-1396
• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 2/Phase 3
• Start date: September 2016
• Est. completion date: March 23, 2021

Study information

• Verified date: August 2021
• Source: Georgetown University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This study aims to evaluate the hematological safety of palbociclib with letrozole and fulvestrant in African American women with hormone receptor positive HER2 negative advanced breast cancer. Hematological safety is a composite endpoint of episodes of febrile neutropenia and treatment discontinuation due to neutropenia according to current recommendations for management of neutropenia

Description:

The study is designed to assess the rate of completion of planned oncology therapy in the absence of a hematological event defined as episodes of febrile neutropenia and treatment discontinuation due to neutropenia. A completion rate of 80% is considered of clinical relevance as to benefit breast cancer patients who are at a higher risk of having ethnic neutropenia where as a completion rate of 60% is considered poor and to justify additional safety studies. A two stage design with a total of 35 patients is used to test if the completion rate is at least 80% versus if it is below 60% with 80% power at a significance level of 5%. An exact confidence interval of the completion rate will be calculated. Investigators estimate there will be no more than a 10% rate of febrile neutropenia. Due to the small sample size, the analysis of secondary endpoints will be descriptive and will not include specific hypothesis testing.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 35
• Est. completion date: March 23, 2021
• Est. primary completion date: December 16, 2019
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Female
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Self-identified Black, African or African American women of = 18 years of age with proven diagnosis of advanced adenocarcinoma of the breast (locoregionally recurrent or metastatic disease)

2. ER-positive and/or PgR-positive tumor based on local laboratory results

3. HER2-negative breast cancer based on local laboratory results (test to be used as per local practice)

4. Patients must be appropriate candidates for letrozole or fulvestrant therapy

5. Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status 0-2

6. Adequate bone marrow function:

• Absolute Neutrophil Count (ANC) = 1,000/mm3 (1.0 x 109/L);
• Platelets =100,000/mm3 (100 x 109/L);
• Hemoglobin =9 g/dL (90 g/L).

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Current use of food or drugs known to be potent inhibitors or inducers of CYP3A4

2. Active uncontrolled or symptomatic brain metastases. Previously treated and clinically stable, as per Investigator's judgment, brain metastases are permitted.

3. Previous CDK4/6 inhibitor -

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Breast Neoplasms
• Hormone Receptor Positive HER-2 Negative Breast Cancer

Intervention

Drug:
• Palbociclib + Letrozole or Fulvestrant
Palbociclib x 21 days with a 7 day rest plus 2.5 mg Letrozole QD (no break) or Fulvestrant 500mg IM every 2 weeks for 3 doses and then every 4 weeks until progression or maximum of 12 months

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital	Baltimore	Maryland
United States	MedStar Union Memorial Hospital	Baltimore	Maryland
United States	University of Chicago	Chicago	Illinois
United States	Thomas Jefferson University	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
United States	MedStar Georgetown University Hospital	Washington	District of Columbia
United States	MedStar Washington Hospital Center	Washington	District of Columbia

Sponsors (3)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Georgetown University	Thomas Jefferson University, University of Chicago

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

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Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Number of Patients Who Complete Planned Oncologic Therapy Without the Development of a Hematological Event	For study purpose febrile neutropenia will be defined according to the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) v4.0: "ANC less than 1000/mm3 with a single temperature of >38.3 degrees Celsius (101 degrees Fahrenheit) or a sustained temperature of 38 degrees Celsius (100.4 degrees Fahrenheit) for more than one hour."; Planned oncology therapy is defined as completion of one year of therapy for advanced breast cancer in the absence of disease progression or cessation of study drug due to progressive disease or non-hematological toxicity.	12 months
Secondary	Dose Delays in Palbociclib Attributed to Neutropenia	Number of patients who required dose delays in palbociclib attributed to neutropenia.	12 months
Secondary	Dose Reductions in Palbociclib Therapy Attributed to Neutropenia	Number of patients who required dose reductions in palbociclib therapy	12 months
Secondary	Clinical Benefit Rate	Clinical Benefit Rate (CBR), for those with evaluable disease, defined as the percentage of patients who achieved complete response, partial response and stable disease. RECIST 1.1 was used as the standard way to measure response to treatment. The mean (SD) of specific metabolites were calculated at each time point and graphically assess these measures over time with clinical response and hematological toxicity. The mean change in these variables from baseline to each follow-up point was be calculated. Generalized linear model was utilized for the correlative analysis of clinical response and hematologic events.	24 weeks