Study in Women With Advanced Breast Cancer Receiving Palbociclib With AI or Fulvestrant (INGE-B)

Open-label, Multi-center, sINGlE Arm Clinical Study to Evaluate Efficacy/QoL in Women With HR+, HER2-, Regionally Recurrent or Metastatic Breast Cancer Receiving Palbociclib With an AI or Fulvestrant After Prior Endocrine Therapy

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy and quality of life in women with advanced breast cancer (locally advance inoperable or metastatic adenocarcinoma of the breast), HR+ / HER2-, who are treated with an aromatase inhibitor or fulvestrant as baseline therapy in combination with palbociclib (Ibrance)

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Breast Cancer; Hormone Receptor Positive Tumor; Human Epidermal Growth Factor 2 Negative Carcinoma of Breast
• Intervention / Treatment: Drug: Palbociclib; Drug: Letrozole; Drug: Anastrozole; Drug: Exemestane; Drug: Fulvestrant

Detailed Description

This is a prospective, open-label, multi-center, single arm, non-comparative phase II study in women with HR+/HER2- advanced breast cancer receiving palbociclib in addition to an aromatase inhibitor or fulvestrant. The study will take place in Germany (85 study centers).

In total, 360 patients will be enrolled in this study. 6 treatment groups are planned. The study seeks to recruit 60 (58-62) patients per recruitment group. For first-line treatment with palbociclib - and letrozole (Enrollment Group 1), anastrozole (Enrollment Group 2), exemestane (Enrollment Group 3) or fulvestrant (Enrollment Group 4) and 60 (58-62) patients for second- or later-line treatment with palbociclib -and letrozole (Enrollment Group 5) or fulvestrant (Enrollment Group 6). Recruitment will be centrally monitored to allow closure of a respective group as soon as 60 (58-62) patients have been enrolled.

Treatment will be continued until disease progression, intolerable toxicity, death or any other reason. In case a combination partner is discontinued, palbociclib has to be discontinued. In case treatment with palbociclib is stopped, combination partner can be continued according to investigator's discretion. Irrespectively of the combination partner, the discontinuation of palbociclib is defined as end of treatment (EOT) in this study. After EOT the patient enters the follow-up period.

Primary end point is clinical benefit rate 24 weeks after the first study treatment of the patient.

A study independent, decentral, "virtual" biobank will be established. All patients will be asked to give consent for their tumor samples to be used for future investigational research. Study sites will inform the local pathologists about the patient's consent and ask for the tissue sample to be reserved for future analyses. The site is requested to collect contact details of the pathologist storing the tumor sample, the sample's identification number(s), and to document these in the eCRF.

The decision to perform subsequent investigational research studies on collected samples will be based on outcome data from this study or from new scientific findings related to the drug class or disease, as well as reagent and assay availability.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 388
• Phase: Phase 2

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Germany
  • Aachen, Germany
    • Research Site
  • Aschaffenburg, Germany
    • Research Site
  • Augsburg, Germany
  • Baden-Baden, Germany
    • Research Site
  • Berlin, Germany
    • Research Site
  • Bochum, Germany
  • Bonn, Germany
  • Bottrop, Germany
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  • Bremerhaven, Germany
  • Celle, Germany
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  • Dessau, Germany
  • Donauwörth, Germany
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  • Dortmund, Germany
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  • Dresden, Germany
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  • Essen, Germany
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  • Esslingen, Germany
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  • Frankfurt, Germany
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  • Freiburg, Germany
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  • Gerlingen, Germany
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  • Goslar, Germany
  • Greifswald, Germany
  • Göttingen, Germany
  • Göttingen, Germany
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  • Güstrow, Germany
  • Gütersloh, Germany
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  • Halle, Germany
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  • Hamburg, Germany
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  • Homburg, Germany
  • Ilsede, Germany
  • Kaiserslautern, Germany
  • Karlsruhe, Germany
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  • Kassel, Germany
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  • Krefeld, Germany
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  • Langen, Germany
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  • Leer, Germany
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  • Luneburg, Germany
  • Lörrach, Germany
  • Lübeck, Germany
  • Mannheim, Germany
  • Minden, Germany
  • Mönchengladbach, Germany
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  • Mühlhausen, Germany
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  • Mülheim, Germany
  • München, Germany
  • München, Germany
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  • Münster, Germany
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  • Neumünster, Germany
  • Neuruppin, Germany
  • Offenburg, Germany
  • Oldenburg, Germany
  • Passau, Germany
  • Potsdam, Germany
  • Recklinghausen, Germany
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  • Regensburg, Germany
    • Research Site
  • Rostock, Germany
  • Saarbrucken, Germany
  • Schorndorf, Germany
  • Singen, Germany
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  • Speyer, Germany
  • Stade, Germany
  • Stolberg, Germany
  • Stuttgart, Germany
  • Traunstein, Germany
  • Ulm, Germany
    • Research Site
  • Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany
  • Westerstede, Germany
  • Wilhelmshaven, Germany
    • Research Site
  • Witten, Germany
  • Würselen, Germany
  • Würzburg, Germany

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

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

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Personally signed written informed consent prior to beginning protocol specific procedures, including expected cooperation of the patient for the treatment and follow-up, must be obtained and documented according to the local regulatory requirements
2. Women with proven diagnosis of advanced, defined as locally advanced inoperable or metastatic, adenocarcinoma of the breast
3. Hormone-receptor-positive (HR+) disease, defined as estrogen-receptor-positive (ER+) and/or progesterone-receptor-positive (PgR+)
4. Human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-negative (HER2-) disease (HER2 neg/+ or HER2++ with CISH/FISH neg.)
5. Pre-/perimenopausal women receiving concomitant therapy with an luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH) agonist / ovarian ablation or postmenopausal status
6. Age ≥18 years
7. Measurable disease as per Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors [RECIST] or bone-only disease
8. Patients scheduled for palliative treatment with an combination partner for first- or later-line
9. Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status 0-2
10. Adequate organ and marrow function
11. Resolution of all acute toxic effects of prior therapy, including radiotherapy Grade <1 (except toxicities not considered a safety risk for the patient) and recovery from surgical procedures
12. Fluent in spoken and written German

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Prior treatment with any CDK4/6 inhibitor
2. Prior adjuvant therapy with the respective endocrine combination partner if last intake <12 months prior to entering the study
3. Prior palliative therapy with the respective endocrine combination partner
4. More than one prior palliative chemotherapy
5. 5. Known hypersensitivity to letrozole, anastrozole, exemestane, fulvestrant or any of their excipients
6. Current use of food or drugs known to be potent inhibitors or inducers of CYP3A4 (refer to Appendix 15.4)
7. Current use of preparations containing St. John's Wort
8. Participation in other studies involving investigational drug(s) (Phases I-IV) within 2 weeks before the current study treatment begins
9. QTc > 480 msec on the screening ECG (using the QTcF formula and/or the QTcB (Bazett) formula); history of QT syndrome, Brugada syndrome or known history of QTc prolongation, or Torsade de Pointes
10. High cardiovascular risk, including, but not limited to recent myocardial infarction, severe/unstable angina and severe cardiac dysrhythmias in the past 6 months prior to enrollment
11. Patients with advanced symptomatic, visceral spread, that were at risk of life-threatening complications in the short term (including patients with massive uncontrolled effusions [pleural, pericardial, peritoneal], pulmonary lymphangitis, and over 50% liver involvement)
12. Diagnosis of any second malignancy within the last 3 years prior to enrollment, except for adequately treated basal cell or squamous cell skin cancer, or carcinoma in situ of the cervix
13. Known, not-irradiated CNS metastases

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: Palbociclib+AI or Fulvestrant; Letrozole as first-line or later line, Anastrozole as first-line, Exemestane as first-line, Fulvestrant as first-line or later line after prior endocrine therapy.

Drug: Palbociclib; Capsules (commercially available, obtained from local pharmacies), 125mg daily, 21 days, 7 days off, cycles of 28 days. Dose reductions: 100mg, 75mg (no change in administration schedule) Number of cycles: until disease progression, intolerable toxicity, death or any other reasons; Other Names: Ibrance; Drug: Letrozole; Letrozole will be administered as basic therapy (commercially available tablets, obtained from local pharmacies) as followed: 2.5mg/daily, oral intake; Other Names: Femara; Drug: Anastrozole; Anastrozole will be administered as basic therapy (commercially available tablets, obtained from local pharmacies) as followed: 1mg/daily, oral intake; Other Names: Arimidex; Drug: Exemestane; Exemestane will be administered as basic therapy (commercially available tablets, obtained from local pharmacies) as followed: 25mg/daily, oral intake; Other Names: Aromasin; Drug: Fulvestrant; Fulvestrant will be administered as basic therapy (commercially available injection, obtained from local pharmacies) as followed: 500mg/once monthly, intramuscular injection; Other Names: Faslodex

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Clinical Benefit Rate (CBR)	CBR is defined as complete response (CR), partial response (PR), or stable disease (SD) according to RECIST 1.1.	24 weeks after first administration of Palbociclib in combination with AI / fulvestrant

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Number of participants with Adverse Events as assessed by CTCAE V4.0	Adverse Events as characterized by type, frequency, severity (as graded by National Cancer Institute [NCI] Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events [CTCAE] v.4.03), and seriousness	From Date of Signed informed consent until PD, assessed up to 60 months.
Clinical Benefit Rate (CBR)	CBR is defined as complete response (CR), partial response (PR), or stable disease (SD) according to RECIST 1.1.	48 weeks after first administration of Palbociclib in combination with AI / fulvestrant
Progression-free Survival rate	Follow up 4 years after LPI	At 48 weeks (all patients) and 2 years (first-line patients only) after first administration of Palbociclib in combination with AI / fulvestrant
Overall Survival rate	Follow up 4 years after LPI	At 48 weeks after first administration of Palbociclib in combination with AI / fulvestrant and yearly until EOS, assessed up to 60 months.
Time on treatment	Study treatment will be continued until disease progression, intolerable toxicity, death or any other reason.	From day of first treatment until permanent discontinuation (EOT), assessed up to 60 months.
Dosage	starting dose (mg); adjusted doses (mg)	From day of first treatment until EOT, assessed up to 60 months.
Adminstration schedule	- dates of administration	From day of first treatment until EOT, assessed up to 60 months.
Health-related quality of life (QoL)	Health-related QoL will be assessed with the FACT-B (Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Breast) questionnaire	From date of signed informed consent until disease progression or start of next anti-cancer therapy: every 12 weeks, assessed up to 60 months.
Health-related fatigue	Fatigue will be assessed with the BFI (Brief Fatigue Inventory) questionnaire	From date of signed informed consent until disease progression or start of next anti-cancer therapy: every 12 weeks, assessed up to 60 months.
Health-related anxiety and depression	Depression and anxiety will be assessed with the HADS-D (Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale) questionnaire	From date of signed informed consent until disease progression or start of next anti-cancer therapy: every 12 weeks, assessed up to 60 months.
Physician's assessment of patient's overall health status and change in health status compared to previous visit	Assessed by 2 items at each cycle/at scheduled patient visit	From Screening until disease progression or start of next anti-cancer therapy, assessed up to 60 months.

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: iOMEDICO AG
• Collaborators: Pfizer
• Investigators: Study Chair: iOMEDICO AG, Freiburg / Germany

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): September 6, 2016
• Primary Completion (Actual): February 15, 2023
• Study Completion (Actual): February 15, 2023

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: August 25, 2016
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: September 5, 2016
• First Posted (Estimate): September 9, 2016

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): March 13, 2023
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: March 10, 2023
• Last Verified: March 1, 2023

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: HR+; HER2-; Postmenopausal; Palbociclib; Locally advanced (inoperable or metastatic) Breast Cancer; Aromatase inhibitor or fulvestrant; Pre-/perimenopausal receiving LHRH agonist / ovarian ablation
• 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; Antineoplastic Agents; Hormones, Hormone Substitutes, and Hormone Antagonists; Antineoplastic Agents, Hormonal; Protein Kinase Inhibitors; Hormone Antagonists; Aromatase Inhibitors; Steroid Synthesis Inhibitors; Estrogen Antagonists; Estrogen Receptor Antagonists; Letrozole; Fulvestrant; Palbociclib; Anastrozole; Exemestane
• Other Study ID Numbers: iOM-04318

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

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