The purpose of this study is to learn whether clinical response (the amount a tumor shrinks based on imaging or tumor measurements obtained by physical exam) predicts pathologic response (the amount of tumor remaining when surgery is performed) in participants with breast cancer who are receiving chemotherapy prior to surgery.
Neoadjuvant therapy was first introduced to improve surgical outcomes of breast cancer and to be able to assess the pathological responsiveness to therapy at the time of surgery. Over time, it became a useful experimental platform in clinical research in breast cancer, and in recent years became an important part of standard management of certain subtypes and clinical stages in breast cancer. It has been long established that patients who achieve pathologic complete response (pCR, i.e., the absence of any cancer in the tissue removed during surgery) after receiving neoadjuvant treatment have better outcomes than those who don't, especially in HER2+, and triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). Many reports add aggressive ER+ breast cancer to these groups. So far, the only way to know whether a patient achieved pCR is to give them a full course of therapy and then proceed to surgery. One of the areas that has attracted significant research interest has been the effort to develop early predictors of pCR. This way, treatment can be tailored in the future to each patient and each tumor and can spare patients ineffective therapy. Some of these predictors include tissue biomarkers, blood based biomarkers, and imaging biomarkers. It has been observed in neoadjuvant clinical trials that many patients have an impressive early clinical response to treatment after 1-2 cycles of treatment. Anecdotally, many of those patients go on to have a pCR at the time of surgery. This observation, if validated in a prospective clinical trial, may lead to a simple, inexpensive way to assess tumor responsiveness and predict pCR using clinical exam and simple imaging. Using imaging or molecular changes to predict pCR will also be explored in this study. A consortium of investigators will be studying image analysis and proteogenomic changes early in the course of treatment to predict clinical response specifically in participants with TNBC. Only participants with TNBC will be required to undergo a research biopsy and research MRI prior to starting treatment, and again after the first cycle of treatment. The investigators therefore hypothesize that absence of early clinical response, defined as at least a 30% reduction in the size of the breast tumor by Day 21 of treatment (as measured by either imaging or clinical exam), will be associated with absence of pCR at the time of surgery, in 3 subtypes of breast cancer - TNBC, HER2+, high-risk ER+. All treatment in this study is standard of care (non-investigational).
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
185
80 mg/m2 IV administered on Days 1, 8, 15 of each 21-day cycle
Carboplatin AUC 1.5 IV administered on Days 1, 8, 15 of each 21-day cycle
Trastuzumab 8 mg/kg loading dose, followed by 6 mg/kg maintenance dose, administered on Day 1 of each 21-day cycle
Pertuzumab 840 mg loading dose, followed by 420 mg maintenance dose, administered on Day 1 of each 21-day cycle
60 mg/m2 IV administered on Day 1 of each 14-day cycle
600 mg/m2 IV administered on Day 1 of each 14-day cycle
Either 200 mg IV administered on Day 1 of Cycles 1-4, or 400 mg IV administered on Day 1 of Cycles 1 and 3 of the paclitaxel/carboplatin regimen. 400 mg on Day 1 of Cycles 1 and 4 of the dose-dense AC regimen.
Can be used in place of separate IV formulations of pertuzumab and trastuzumab. 1200 mg pertuzumab/600 mg trastuzumab/30,000 U hyaluronidase administered subcutaneously on Day 1 of the first cycle, followed by a maintenance dose of 600 mg pertuzumab/600 mg trastuzumab/20,000 U hyaluronidase administered subcutaneously every 3 weeks.
Harris Health System - Smith Clinic
Houston, Texas, United States
RECRUITINGO'Quinn Medical Tower - McNair Campus - Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center
Houston, Texas, United States
RECRUITINGChange in Clinical Tumor Measurement vs. Pathologic Response
Clinical tumor measurements are tumor measurements obtain via imaging (mammogram or ultrasound) or by physical exam. Pathologic response is the amount of tumor remaining at the time of surgery, as determined by the pathologist.
Time frame: Baseline and at surgery (after 20 weeks)
Pathologic Complete Response Rate in each Breast Cancer Subtype
A pathologic complete response (pCR) means that there is no residual invasive cancer identified in the tissue removed at surgery. The frequency of pCR will be estimated for each breast cancer subtype (triple negative, hormone receptor positive, and HER2-positive)
Time frame: 20 weeks
Predictive value of clinical response following 1 cycle of chemotherapy to predict pathologic complete response
This aims to determine whether a 30 percent reduction in tumor size (as measured by physical exam or imaging) following one cycle of chemotherapy can predict whether a patient will have no residual invasive cancer at the time of surgery
Time frame: 20 weeks
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