Capecitabine, Cyclophosphamide, Lapatinib Ditosylate, and Trastuzumab in Treating Patients With HER2-Positive Metastatic Breast Cancer

Phase II Trial of Metronomic Capecitabine and Cyclophosphamide With Lapatinib and Trastuzumab in Patients With HER2 Positive Metastatic Breast Cancer Who Have Progressed on a Previous Trastuzumab-Based Regimen

This phase II trial studies how well capecitabine, cyclophosphamide, lapatinib ditosylate, and trastuzumab work in treating patients with human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-positive metastatic breast cancer. Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as capecitabine and cyclophosphamide, work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. Giving capecitabine and cyclophosphamide daily may kill more tumor cells. Lapatinib ditosylate may stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking some of the enzymes needed for growth. Monoclonal antibodies, such as trastuzumab, can block tumor growth in different ways. Some block the ability of the tumor to grow and spread. Others find tumor cells and help kill them or carry tumor-killing substances to them. Giving capecitabine, cyclophosphamide, lapatinib ditosylate, and trastuzumab together may be an effective treatment for breast cancer.

Study Overview

• Status: Terminated
• Conditions: HER2-positive Breast Cancer; Stage IV Breast Cancer; Recurrent Breast Cancer
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: laboratory biomarker analysis; Drug: cyclophosphamide; Drug: capecitabine; Biological: trastuzumab; Drug: lapatinib ditosylate

Detailed Description

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:

I. To estimate the progression free survival (PFS).

SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:

I. To evaluate the overall response rate (ORR).

II. To evaluate the clinical benefit rate (CBR; complete response, partial response, and stable disease for >= 24 weeks).

III. To estimate the overall survival (OS).

IV. To assess the safety and tolerability.

OUTLINE:

Patients receive capecitabine orally (PO) once daily (QD), cyclophosphamide PO QD, and lapatinib ditosylate PO QD on days 1-21 and trastuzumab intravenously (IV) on day 1. Courses repeat every 21 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.

After completion of study treatment, patients are followed up every 3 months for 1 year.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 10
• Phase: Phase 2

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • California
    • Los Angeles, California, United States, 90033
      • USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Histologically confirmed HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer
• HER2 overexpression of tumor by either immunohistochemistry (IHC) or fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH); tumors tested by IHC must be 3+ positive; tumors tested by FISH must have a ratio of HER2: chromosome enumeration probe (CEP)17 > 2.0; when both tests are performed, the FISH result must be positive
• Prior trastuzumab use in the adjuvant or metastatic setting
• No more than two prior cytotoxic chemotherapeutic regimens for metastatic breast cancer. In addition, prior Trastuzumab emtansine (TDM-1, Kadcyla) is allowed.
• Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of =< 2
• Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) >= 1500/mm^3
• Platelets >= 100,000/mm^3
• Hemoglobin >= 9 g/dL
• Bilirubin =< 1.5 x upper limit of normal (ULN)
• Serum creatinine =< 1.5 x ULN or calculated creatinine clearance >= 60 ml/min
• Alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and aspartate aminotransferase (AST) =< 2.5 x ULN
• Fully recovered from toxicity due to prior therapy
• Capable of understanding the informed consent and complying with the protocol and signed the informed consent document prior to any study-specific screening procedures or evaluations being performed
• Must be able to swallow pills
• May have either measurable or non-measurable disease by Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) 1.1 criteria
• Sexually active participants must agree to use a medically accepted barrier method of contraception (i.e. male condom or female condom) during the course of the study and for 3 months following discontinuation of study treatments; for participants of childbearing potential, a barrier method and a second method of contraception must be used
• Participants of childbearing potential must have a negative pregnancy test at screening and enrollment; participants of childbearing potential are defined as premenopausal females capable of becoming pregnant, i.e. females who have had any evidence of menses in the past 12 months with the exception of those who had prior hysterectomy (oophorectomy or surgical sterilization); however, women who have been amenorrheic for >= 12 months are still considered to be of childbearing potential if the amenorrhea is possibly due to any other cause including prior chemotherapy, antiestrogens, or ovarian suppression

Exclusion Criteria:

• Prior treatment with capecitabine or lapatinib
• Radiation therapy within 2 weeks before the first dose of study treatment
• Hormonal therapy within 2 weeks before the first dose of study treatment
• Cytotoxic chemotherapy (including investigational cytotoxic chemotherapy) within 3 weeks before the first dose of study treatment
• Biologic therapy (including antibodies [other than trastuzumab], immune modulators, cytokines) within 4 weeks before the first dose of study treatment; Note: there is no washout period required for trastuzumab
• Any other type of investigational agent within 4 weeks before the first dose of study treatment
• Major surgery, or not recovered from major surgery within 4 weeks before the first dose of study treatment
• Untreated, symptomatic, or progressive brain metastases; participants must have no radiographic or other signs of progression in the brain for >= 1 month after completion of local therapy; any corticosteroid use for brain metastases must have been discontinued without the subsequent appearance of symptoms for >= 4 weeks prior to first study treatment
• Uncontrolled significant intercurrent illness that would preclude the patient from study participation per investigator assessment
• Left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) =< 50% as documented by multi gated acquisition scan (MUGA) or echocardiogram performed within 28 days prior to the first study treatment
• Currently receiving anticoagulation with therapeutic doses of warfarin (low-molecular weight heparin is permitted)
• Pregnant or breastfeeding
• Known to be positive for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) (a test for HIV at screening is not required)
• Have acute or currently active/requiring anti-viral therapy hepatic or biliary disease (with the exception of patients with Gilbert's syndrome, asymptomatic gallstones, liver metastases or stable chronic liver disease per investigator assessment)
• Previously identified allergy or hypersensitivity or intolerance to components of the study treatment formulation (cyclophosphamide, capecitabine, lapatinib [lapatinib ditosylate], trastuzumab)
• Any other diagnosis of malignancy or evidence of malignancy (except non-melanoma skin cancer, in-situ carcinoma of the cervix) within 2 years prior to screening for this study
• Unable or unwilling to abide by the study protocol or cooperate fully with the investigator or designee

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: Treatment (chemotherapy, lapatinib ditosylate, trastuzumab); Patients receive capecitabine by mouth (PO) every day (QD), cyclophosphamide PO QD, and lapatinib ditosylate PO QD on days 1-21 and trastuzumab IV on day 1. Courses repeat every 21 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.

Other: laboratory biomarker analysis; Correlative studies; Drug: cyclophosphamide; Given PO; Other Names: Cytoxan; Endoxan; CPM; CTX; Endoxana; Drug: capecitabine; Given PO; Other Names: Xeloda; CAPE; Ro 09-1978/000; Biological: trastuzumab; Given IV; Other Names: Herceptin; anti-c-erB-2; MOAB HER2; Monoclonal antibody (MOAB) HER2; Drug: lapatinib ditosylate; Given PO; Other Names: Tykerb; Lapatinib; GSK572016; GW-572016; GW2016

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Progression Free Survival (PFS)	PFS was defined as duration of time from the first dose of study drug to the first documentation of Progressive Disease (PD) by investigator assessment using RECIST 1.1 or death on study due to any cause on or before the data cutoff date, whichever occurred first. PD: >=20% increase (>=5 mm absolute increase) in the sum of target lesion measurements, compared to the smallest sum on study (including baseline), or unequivocal progression of non-target lesions, evaluated as a whole, such that it is clear that treatment has failed and disease is progressing, regardless of the status of the target lesions.	From study entry to the date of first documented disease progression (assessed every 6 weeks) or death due to any cause, whichever came first, approximately 63 months.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Overall Response Rate (ORR)	Overall response rate (ORR) is complete response (CR) + partial response (PR) recorded from study entry until disease progression based on RECIST v1.1 criteria. Per RECIST 1.1 for target lesions: CR is complete disappearance of all target lesions and PR is at least a 30% decrease in the sum of longest diameter (LD) of target lesions, taking as reference baseline sum LD. PR or better overall response assumes at a minimum incomplete response/stable disease (SD) for the evaluation of non-target lesions and absence of new lesions.	From study entry until disease progression/recurrence (maximum duration: 351 weeks)
Clinical Benefit Rate (CBR)	Participants with a best response of CR, PR, or stable disease (SD) sustained for ≥24 weeks, as assessed using RECIST v1.1. CR: Disappearance of all non-nodal target and non-target lesions, including target and non-target lymph nodes reduction to <10 mm in short axis. PR: >=30% decrease in sum of diameters of target lesions, compared to the sum at baseline. SD: Neither PR nor progression of disease (PD) criteria met. SD follow PR only when sum increases by less than 20% from the nadir, but previously seen 30% decrease from baseline no longer hold. PD: >=20% increase (>=5 mm absolute increase) in the sum of target lesion measurements, compared to the smallest sum on study (including baseline), or unequivocal progression of non-target lesions, evaluated as a whole, such that it is clear that treatment has failed and disease is progressing, regardless of the status of the target lesions.	From study entry until the date of the first documented disease progression of date of death whichever came first, assessed for approximately 351 weeks
Overall Survival (OS)	OS is the duration from study entry to death. Participants last known to be alive are censored at date of last contact.	From study entry until death from any cause or date of last contact (up to 70 months)
Number of Participants With Any Adverse Events as a Measure of Safety and Tolerability	Assessment based on CTCAE version 4.0 toxicity criteria. For the detailed list of adverse events see the adverse event module.	****Time Frame: Adverse events were collected from first dose of study treatment up to 30 days after last dose of treatment, up to 63 months (number or treatment given ranged from 2 cycles to 85 cycles).

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University of Southern California
• Collaborators: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Darcy V Spicer, MD, University of Southern California

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): July 29, 2013
• Primary Completion (Actual): March 2, 2021
• Study Completion (Actual): March 2, 2021

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: June 6, 2013
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: June 6, 2013
• First Posted (Estimated): June 10, 2013

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): October 5, 2023
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: September 12, 2023
• Last Verified: September 1, 2023

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Skin Diseases; Neoplasms; Neoplasms by Site; Breast Diseases; Breast Neoplasms; Physiological Effects of Drugs; Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action; Enzyme Inhibitors; Antirheumatic Agents; Antimetabolites, Antineoplastic; Antimetabolites; Antineoplastic Agents; Immunosuppressive Agents; Immunologic Factors; Antineoplastic Agents, Alkylating; Alkylating Agents; Myeloablative Agonists; Antineoplastic Agents, Immunological; Protein Kinase Inhibitors; Cyclophosphamide; Trastuzumab; Capecitabine; Lapatinib
• Other Study ID Numbers: 1B-12-10; P30CA014089 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract); NCI-2013-01086 (Registry Identifier: CTRP (Clinical Trial Reporting Program))

Drug and device information, study documents

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