Carboplatin and Gemcitabine in Treating Patients With Locally Advanced or Metastatic Breast Cancer

A Phase II Study of Carboplatin in Combination With Gemcitabine as a Dose Dense Schedule in Patients With Locally Advanced or Metastatic Breast Cancer That Are Resistant to Anthracyclines & Taxanes

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as carboplatin and gemcitabine, work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. Giving more than one drug (combination chemotherapy) may kill more tumor cells.

PURPOSE: This phase II trial is studying how well giving carboplatin together with gemcitabine works in treating patients with locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer.

Study Overview

• Status: Terminated
• Conditions: Breast Cancer
• Intervention / Treatment: Drug: Carboplatin; Drug: Gemcitabine Hydrochloride

Detailed Description

OBJECTIVES:

Primary

• Determine the overall response rate in patients with anthracycline- and taxane-resistant locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer treated with dose-dense carboplatin and gemcitabine hydrochloride.

Secondary

• Determine the overall toxicity of this regimen in these patients.
• Determine the overall survival of patients treated with this regimen.
• Determine the time to disease progression in patients treated with this regimen.
• Determine the duration of response in patients treated with this regimen.
• Determine the time to treatment failure in patients treated with this regimen.

OUTLINE: This is a nonrandomized, open-label study.

Patients receive carboplatin IV over 30 minutes on day 1 and gemcitabine hydrochloride IV over 150 minutes on day 2. Treatment repeats every 14 days for up to 9 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.

After completion of study therapy, patients are followed periodically for 2 years.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 35 patients will be accrued for this study.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 5
• Phase: Phase 2

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United Kingdom
  • England
    • Bournemouth, England, United Kingdom, BH7 7DW
      • Royal Bournemouth Hospital
    • Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom, PO3 6AD
      • Portsmouth Oncology Centre at Saint Mary's Hospital
    • Southampton, England, United Kingdom, SO16 6YD
      • Southampton General Hospital

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years to 120 years (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion criteria:

• DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS: histologically confirmed breast cancer, locally advanced or metastatic disease, recurrent or refractory disease, histological or cytological confirmation required for recurrence in a solitary site
• Must have received prior anthracycline and taxane as neoadjuvant, adjuvant, or metastatic therapy
• At least 1 measurable site of disease, defined as ≥ 1 unidimensionally measurable lesion ≥ 20 mm by conventional techniques or ≥ 10 mm by spiral CT scan
• Palpable disease allowed, Lesions that have been irradiated in the advanced setting cannot be included as sites of measurable disease
• No nonmeasurable disease only, including the following:
• Bone lesions
• Leptomeningeal disease
• Ascites
• Pleural or pericardial effusion
• Inflammatory breast disease
• Lymphangitic pulmonary disease
• Abdominal masses that are not confirmed and followed by imaging techniques
• Cystic lesions
• No HER2-positive disease, defined as 3+ by IHC OR positive by FISH or chromogenic in situ hybridization
• Hormone receptor status not specified
• PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:
• Male or female, Menopausal status not specified, ECOG performance status 0-1, Estimated life expectancy ≥ 12 weeks, Not pregnant or nursing, fertile patients must use effective contraception during and for 3 months after completion of study therapy
• ANC ≥ 1,500/mm³
• Platelet count ≥ 100,000/mm³
• Hemoglobin ≥ 9 g/dL
• ALT or AST < 2.5 times upper limit of normal (ULN)
• Bilirubin normal
• Alkaline phosphatase ≤ 2.5 times ULN
• Creatinine ≤ 1.25 times ULN OR creatinine clearance > 40 mL/min
• Calcium ≤ 1.2 times ULN
• No concurrent serious medical or psychiatric illness, including any serious active infection incompatible with the study
• No other primary malignancy except carcinoma in situ of the cervix, adequately treated nonmelanomatous skin cancer, or any other malignancy previously treated ≥ 5 years ago with no evidence of recurrence
• No peripheral neuropathy ≥ grade 2
• PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY (See Disease Characteristics):
• Recovered from prior chemotherapy
• Prior hormonal therapy or immunotherapy allowed
• Antitumoral hormonal therapy must be discontinued prior to study entry
• More than 4 weeks since prior radiotherapy and recovered
• No prior radiotherapy to the whole pelvis or to ≥ 25% of the bone marrow
• No prior gemcitabine hydrochloride, cisplatin, or carboplatin
• No other cytotoxic chemotherapy for 21 days before and for 14 days after completion of study therapy
• More than 30 days since prior treatment with a drug (not including study drug) that has not received regulatory approval for any indication at the time of study entry
• Bisphosphonate therapy may not be initiated or discontinued within 4 weeks of study entry
• No more than 1 prior course of chemotherapy for metastatic disease
• Prior chemotherapy in the adjuvant setting allowed
• Concurrent palliative radiotherapy to existing painful lesions (soft tissue or bone) allowed
• New bone pain requiring radiotherapy > 4 weeks after first study treatment considered disease progression
• New pain in a soft tissue lesion without other objective changes may be irradiated provided ≥ 1 other site of nonirradiated measurable disease exists
• No other concurrent anticancer treatment
• No concurrent tamoxifen citrate, aromatase inhibitors, or progestagens

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Treatment
• Allocation: N/A
• Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

1

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Patients with (HER-2)-negative and anthracycline- and taxane-resistant; Patients with human epidermal growth factor 2 (HER-2)-negative locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer that was anthracycline- and taxane-resistant	Drug: Carboplatin; At a dose equivalent to an area under the concentration-time curve of 4.5 mg/ml.min on day 1 of every 2-week cycle; Drug: Gemcitabine Hydrochloride; 1500 mg/m2 on day 2 of every 2-week cycle

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Overall response rate (complete or partial response)	Assess the Overall response rate (complete or partial response)	8 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Overall toxicity as assessed by NCI CTCAE v3.0	Summary Overall toxicity as assessed by NCI CTCAE v3.0	8 months
Overall survival	Assess Overall survival	8 months
Time to disease progression	Assess Time to disease progression	8 months
Duration of response	Assess Duration of response	8 months
Time to treatment failure	Assess Time to treatment failure	8 months

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University of Southampton
• Investigators: Study Chair: Nicholas Murray, MD, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust

Publications and helpful links

Helpful Links

• Publication of the results

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): July 15, 2006
• Primary Completion (Actual): November 3, 2008
• Study Completion (Actual): November 3, 2008

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: May 3, 2007
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: May 3, 2007
• First Posted (Estimate): May 7, 2007

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): February 1, 2021
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: January 29, 2021
• Last Verified: January 1, 2021

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: stage IV breast cancer; stage IIIA breast cancer; recurrent breast cancer; stage IIIB breast cancer; male breast cancer; stage IIIC breast cancer
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Skin Diseases; Neoplasms; Neoplasms by Site; Breast Diseases; Breast Neoplasms; Physiological Effects of Drugs; Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action; Anti-Infective Agents; Antiviral Agents; Enzyme Inhibitors; Antimetabolites, Antineoplastic; Antimetabolites; Antineoplastic Agents; Immunosuppressive Agents; Immunologic Factors; Gemcitabine; Carboplatin
• Other Study ID Numbers: CDR0000542627; 2005-005164-83 (EudraCT Number)

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: No

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No