Eribulin Mesylate in Treating Patients With Previously Treated Metastatic Breast Cancer

Phase II Trial of Metronomic Eribulin (Halaven) in Pretreated Metastatic Breast Cancer (MBC)

This phase II trial studies how well eribulin mesylate works in treating patients with previously treated breast cancer that has spread to other places in the body. Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as eribulin mesylate, work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells, by stopping them from dividing, or by stopping them from spreading.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Stage IV Breast Cancer; Recurrent Breast Carcinoma
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Laboratory Biomarker Analysis; Drug: Eribulin Mesylate

Detailed Description

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:

I. Progression free survival (PFS).

SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:

I. Frequency of alopecia with absence or decrease to < 50%.

II. Incidence of grade 3 and 4 neutropenia of < 30%.

III. Incidence of sensory neuropathy (all grades) to < 25%.

TERTIARY OBJECTIVES:

I. Assess the role of circulating endothelial cell precursors (CEPs) and apoptotic circulating endothelial cells (CECs), in predicting early response to treatment.

OUTLINE:

Patients receive eribulin mesylate intravenously (IV) over 2-5 minutes on days 1, 8, and 15. Courses repeat every 4 weeks in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.

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

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 86
• Phase: Phase 2

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Alaska
    • Anchorage, Alaska, United States, 99508
      • Katmai Oncology Group
    • Anchorage, Alaska, United States, 99508
      • Providence Alaska Medical Center
  • Arizona
    • Tucson, Arizona, United States, 85724
      • The University of Arizona Medical Center-University Campus
  • Montana
    • Bozeman, Montana, United States, 59715
      • Bozeman Deaconess Hospital
  • Oregon
    • Bend, Oregon, United States, 97701
      • Bend Memorial Clinic
  • Washington
    • Kennewick, Washington, United States, 99336
      • Kadlec Clinic Hematology and Oncology
    • Mount Vernon, Washington, United States, 98274
      • Skagit Valley Hospital
    • Port Angeles, Washington, United States, 98362
      • Olympic Medical Center
    • Seattle, Washington, United States, 98109
      • Fred Hutch/University of Washington Cancer Consortium
    • Seattle, Washington, United States, 98112
      • Group Health Cooperative-Seattle
    • Tacoma, Washington, United States, 98405
      • MultiCare Tacoma General Hospital
    • Wenatchee, Washington, United States, 98801
      • Wenatchee Valley Hospital and Clinics

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years and older (ADULT, OLDER_ADULT)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Ability to provide written informed consent
• Prior exposure to taxane in the adjuvant, neoadjuvant or metastatic setting
• At least one prior regimen of chemotherapy in the setting of metastatic breast cancer; no upper limit on the number of prior endocrine regimens for metastatic breast cancer, however no more than 6 chemotherapeutic regimens may have been given in the metastatic setting
• Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0, 1, or 2

• Patients must have baseline imaging within 30 days prior to the start of therapy and satisfy one of the following:

  • Measurable disease per Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) 1.1 criteria
  • At least one non lymph node lesion of >= 1.0 cm or lymph node >= 1.5 cm in short axis by computerized tomography (CT) scan (CT scan thickness no greater than 5 mm which is serially measurable according to RECIST 1.1 using either computerized tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
  • Lesions that have had radiotherapy must show evidence of progressive disease (PD) based on RECIST 1.1 to be deemed a target lesion
  • Non-measurable disease by RECIST 1.1 criteria (includes bone only disease and lesions < 10 mm or lymph nodes < 15 mm in short axis) with rising serum CA15-3 or CA 27.29 or CEA documented by two consecutive measurements taken at least 14 days apart with the most recent measurement being within 42 days prior to registration. The second CA 15-3 or CA 27.29 value must have at least a 20% increase over the first and for CA 15-3 or CA27.29 be greater than or equal to 40 units/mL or for CEA be greater than or equal to 4 ng/mL
• Absolute neutrophil count >= 1,500/mm^3
• Hemoglobin >= 10 g/dL
• Platelets >= 100,000/mm^3
• Creatinine =< 1.5 x upper limit of normal (ULN)
• Total bilirubin =< 1.5 x ULN
• Alkaline phosphatase =< 3.0 x ULN; up to 5 x ULN is acceptable if due to bone metastases in the absence of liver metastases
• Aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and alanine aminotransferase (ALT) =< 3.0 x institutional upper limit of normal, unless due to liver metastases (=< 5 x ULN)
• Women of child-bearing potential (WOCBP) and men must agree to use adequate contraception (hormonal or barrier method of birth control or abstinence) prior to study entry and for the duration of study participation
• Life expectancy of > 12 weeks

Exclusion Criteria:

• Prior treatment with eribulin

• Plan to administer any other systemic antitumor including endocrine therapy except for following standard of care treatment:

  • Trastuzumab at standard dosing human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) positive tumors
  • Denosumab or bisphosphonates to treat metastatic bone disease
• Plan to administer concurrent radiation therapy now or for progressive symptoms during treatment
• Patients with known central nervous system (CNS) metastases must have stable disease off steroids after treatment with surgery or radiation therapy
• Second primary malignancy that is clinically detectable or clinically significant at the time of consideration for study enrollment
• Patients with mild (Child-Pugh A) or moderate (Child-Pugh B) hepatic and/or moderate (creatinine clearance [CrCl] 30-50 mL/min) renal impairment
• Radiotherapy within 14 days of study treatment
• Major surgery within 21 days of study treatment; minor surgery within 2 weeks of study treatment; placement of vascular access device and biopsies allowed and is not considered major or minor surgery
• Treatment with any systemic chemotherapy or investigational agents within 3 weeks of the start of study treatment; endocrine treatment must be stopped prior to initiating study treatment; subjects must have recovered from toxicities of prior therapy
• Patients with peripheral neuropathy > grade 2 regardless of etiology
• Significant cardiovascular impairment: congestive heart failure > class II according to the New York Heart Association (NYHA), unstable angina or myocardial infarction within 6 months of enrollment, or serious cardiac arrhythmia (> grade 2)
• Concomitant severe or uncontrolled medical disease
• Significant psychiatric or neurologic disorder which would compromise participation in the study
• Pregnant or breast-feeding females

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: TREATMENT
• Allocation: NA
• Interventional Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Masking: NONE

Number of Arms

1

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
EXPERIMENTAL: Treatment (eribulin mesylate); Patients receive eribulin mesylate IV over 2-5 minutes on days 1, 8, and 15. Courses repeat every 4 weeks in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.	Other: Laboratory Biomarker Analysis; Correlative studies; Drug: Eribulin Mesylate; Given IV; Other Names: Halaven; E7389; ER-086526; B1939 Mesylate; Halichondrin B Analog

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
PFS	Kaplan-Meier survival curves will be used to describe PFS, overall and stratified by number of prior metastatic treatment regimens. A 95% confidence interval for the median PFS will be calculated using the method of Brookmeyer and Crowley.	From study enrollment until the earliest date of disease progression or death, assessed up to 1 year

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University of Washington
• Collaborators: National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (ACTUAL): January 8, 2014
• Primary Completion (ACTUAL): May 4, 2019
• Study Completion (ACTUAL): May 4, 2019

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: July 19, 2013
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 24, 2013
• First Posted (ESTIMATE): July 25, 2013

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (ACTUAL): July 23, 2020
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 10, 2020
• Last Verified: May 1, 2020

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Skin Diseases; Neoplasms; Neoplasms by Site; Breast Diseases; Breast Neoplasms; Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action; Antineoplastic Agents; Tubulin Modulators; Antimitotic Agents; Mitosis Modulators; Halichondrin B
• Other Study ID Numbers: 8093 (OTHER: Fred Hutch/University of Washington Cancer Consortium); P30CA015704 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract); NCI-2013-01326 (REGISTRY: CTRP (Clinical Trial Reporting Program))