Study to Assess the Safety of Alpelisib Plus Fulvestrant, in Men and Post-menopausal Women With HR-positive, HER2-negative, Advanced Breast Cancer (aBC) With PIK3CA Mutation, Whose Disease Progressed on or After Endocrine Treatment (ALPINIST)

ALPelisib INdia Safety STudy (ALPINIST): A Phase IV, Prospective, Multicenter, Open-label, Non-comparative, Interventional Study to Assess the Safety of Alpelisib Plus Fulvestrant, in Men and Post-menopausal Women With HR Positive, HER2-negative, Advanced Breast Cancer (aBC) With a PIK3CA Mutation, Whose Disease Has Progressed on or After Endocrine Based Treatment.

The purpose of this study is to determine the safety of alpelisib plus fulvestrant in men and post-menopausal women with HR-positive, HER2-negative, advanced or metastatic breast cancer (aBC) with a PIK3CA mutation, whose disease has progressed on or after endocrine-based treatment

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Advanced Breast Cancer
• Intervention / Treatment: Drug: Alpelisib; Drug: Fulvestrant

Detailed Description

This is a Phase IV, prospective, multicenter, open-label, non-comparative interventional study to assess the safety of alpelisib plus fulvestrant in men and post-menopausal women with HR-positive, HER2-negative, aBC with a PIK3CA mutation, whose disease has progressed on or after endocrine-based treatment.

Participants will be treated with alpelisib 300 mg orally once daily starting on Cycle 1 Day 1 in combination with fulvestrant (intramuscular injection) 500 mg on Cycle 1 Day 1 and Day 15, and Day 1 of every cycle thereafter in a 28 day cycle. Patients may be discontinued from treatment earlier due to unacceptable toxicity, disease progression, withdrawal of consent, or at the discretion of the investigator or the patient.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 40
• Phase: Phase 4

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• India
  • Ahmedabad, India, 380016
    • Novartis Investigative Site
  • Kolkata, India, 700026
    • Novartis Investigative Site
  • Assam
    • Guwahati, Assam, India, 781016
      • Novartis Investigative Site
  • Gujarat
    • Surat, Gujarat, India, 395009
      • Novartis Investigative Site
  • Kerala
    • Thalassery, Kerala, India, 670103
      • Novartis Investigative Site
    • Trivandrum, Kerala, India, 695 011
      • Novartis Investigative Site
  • Madhya Pradesh
    • Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, 462001
      • Novartis Investigative Site
  • Maharashtra
    • Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, 400 012
      • Novartis Investigative Site
    • Nagpur, Maharashtra, India, 440001
      • Novartis Investigative Site
    • Pune, Maharashtra, India, 411040
      • Novartis Investigative Site
  • National Capital Territory of Delhi
    • New Delhi, National Capital Territory of Delhi, India, 110029
      • Novartis Investigative Site
  • Telangana
    • Hyderabad, Telangana, India, 500004
      • Novartis Investigative Site

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 14 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Description

Key Inclusion Criteria:

• Participants with confirmed PIK3CA mutant advanced or metastatic breast cancer
• Postmenopausal females and males ≥ 18 years old with confirmed HR-positive, HER2-negative advanced or metastatic breast cancer.
• Adequate liver function
• Adequate renal function
• Fasting plasma glucose (FPG) ≤140 mg/dL (7.7 mmol/L) and glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) ≤ 6.4%
• ECOG (Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group) Performance Status < 2
• Fasting Serum amylase ≤ 2 × ULN and Fasting Serum lipase ≤ ULN
• Potassium within normal limits, or corrected with supplements
• Calcium (corrected for serum albumin) and magnesium within normal limits or ≤ grade 1 if judged clinically not significant by the investigator

Key Exclusion Criteria:

• Known hypersensitivity to alpelisib or fulvestrant, or to any of the excipients of alpelisib or fulvestrant
• Participant ineligible for endocrine therapy per the investigator's judgment
• Participant has received prior treatment with any PI3K inhibitors and / or mTOR inhibitor
• Participant with type I diabetes or not controlled type II (based on FPG and HbA1c, see inclusion criterion 6)
• Participant has a concurrent malignancy or malignancy within 3 years of study screening period, with the exception of adequately treated, basal or squamous cell carcinoma, non-melanomatous skin cancer or curatively resected cervical cancer
• Participant has not recovered to grade 1 or better from related side effects of prior anti cancer therapy (with the exception of alopecia)
• Participants receiving concomitant immunosuppressive agents or chronic corticosteroids use at the time of study entry except in cases outlined below: Topical applications, inhaled sprays, eye drops or local injections are allowed. Participants on stable low dose of corticosteroids for at least two weeks prior to enrollment are allowed
• Bilateral diffuse lymphangitic carcinomatosis
• Participants with a known history of HIV seropositivity. Screening for HIV infection at baseline is not required
• Active, bleeding diathesis, or on oral anti-vitamin K medication (except low dose warfarin and acetylsalicylic acid or equivalent, as long as the INR is ≤2.0)
• Any severe and/ or uncontrolled medical conditions
• Participant with severe liver impairment (Child Pugh score B/C)
• Participant has impairment of gastrointestinal (GI) function or GI disease that may significantly alter the absorption of the study drugs
• Participant has any other concurrent severe and/or uncontrolled medical condition that would, in the investigator's judgment, contraindicate patient participation in the clinical study
• Participant has documented pneumonitis/interstitial lung disease which is active and requiring treatment
• Participant has active cardiac disease or a history of cardiac dysfunction
• Participants with unresolved osteonecrosis of the jaw
• Participant has a history of severe cutaneous reactions like Stevens-Johnson-Syndrome (SJS), Erythema Multiforme (EM), Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis (TEN), or Drug Reaction with Eosinophilia and Systemic Symptoms (DRESS).
• Participant is a nursing (lactating) or pregnant woman
• Participant is a woman of child-bearing potential defined as all women physiologically capable of becoming pregnant, unless they are using highly effective methods of contraception during study treatment and at least for 1 week (for alpelisib) or 1 year (for fulvestrant based on prescribing label) after the last dose of each study drug (whichever comes later).
• Participant is a sexually active male unwilling to use a condom during intercourse while taking study treatment, and for 1 week (for alpelisib) or 1 year (for fulvestrant based on prescribing label) after stopping each study drug (whichever comes later). A condom is required for all sexually active male participants to prevent them from fathering a child AND to prevent delivery of study treatment via seminal fluid to their partner. In addition, male participants must not donate sperm during study and up to the time period specified above.

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: Alpelisib + fulvestrant; Alpelisib 300 mg orally once daily starting on Cycle 1 Day 1 in combination with fulvestrant (intramuscular injection) 500 mg on Cycle 1 Day 1 and Day 15, and Day 1 of every cycle thereafter in a 28 day cycle.	Drug: Alpelisib; Film coated tablet for oral use. Participants will be treated with 300 mg of alpelisib once daily starting on Cycle 1 Day 1; Drug: Fulvestrant; Injection for intramuscular administration. Participants will be treated with fulvestrant 500 mg on Cycle 1 Day 1 and Day 15, and Day 1 of every cycle thereafter in a 28-day cycle.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Percentage of participants with at least one on-treatment adverse events (AEs)	Percentage of participants with at least one on-treatment AEs. An AE is any untoward medical occurrence (an unfavourable/unintended sign - including an abnormal laboratory finding), symptom, or disease) in a participant. On-treatment period is defined as up to 30 days after last dose of study drug	From start of treatment up to 30 days after last dose of study treatment, assessed up to approximately 7 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Percentage of participants with Serious AEs (SAEs)	Percentage of participants with SAEs. An SAE is any untoward medical occurrence that results in death, is life-threatening, requires hospitalization or prolongation of existing hospitalization, results in disability/incapacity, is a congenital anomaly/birth defect in the offspring of a study participant, or is an abnormal pregnancy outcome	From start of treatment up to 30 days after last dose of study treatment, assessed up to approximately 7 months
Percentage of participants with Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs)	Percentage of participants with ADRs. An ADR is defined as AEs that are, in the investigator's opinion, of causal relationship to the study treatment	From start of treatment up to 30 days after last dose of study treatment, assessed up to approximately 7 months

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Novartis Pharmaceuticals
• Investigators: Study Director: Novartis Pharmaceuticals, Novartis Pharmaceuticals

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): August 9, 2022
• Primary Completion (Actual): June 12, 2025
• Study Completion (Actual): June 12, 2025

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: November 21, 2022
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: November 21, 2022
• First Posted (Actual): November 30, 2022

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): April 7, 2026
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: April 1, 2026
• Last Verified: March 1, 2026

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: HR+; postmenopausal; men; aromatase inhibitor; ER+; PI3K; HER2-negative; CDK4/6 inhibitor; PgR+
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Endocrine System Diseases; Neoplasms by Site; Neoplasms; Genetic Diseases, Inborn; Endocrine Gland Neoplasms; Neoplastic Syndromes, Hereditary; Neoplasms, Multiple Primary; Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia; Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities; Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 1; Hormones; Hormones, Hormone Substitutes, and Hormone Antagonists; Polycyclic Compounds; Steroids; Fused-Ring Compounds; Estradiol; Estrenes; Estranes; Estradiol Congeners; Gonadal Steroid Hormones; Gonadal Hormones; Fulvestrant; Alpelisib
• Other Study ID Numbers: CBYL719CIN01

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: YES

IPD Plan Description

Novartis is committed to sharing with qualified external researchers, access to patient-level data and supporting clinical documents from eligible studies. These requests are reviewed and approved by an independent review panel on the basis of scientific merit. All data provided is anonymized to respect the privacy of patients who have participated in the trial in line with applicable laws and regulations.

This trial data availability is according to the criteria and process described on www.clinicalstudydatarequest.com

Drug and device information, study documents

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