This is a prospective phase 2 study to use Functional Precision Oncology (FPO) to predict, prevent and treat early metastatic recurrence in subjects with HR-low/Her2 negative or triple negative breast cancer.
The aim of this clinical trial is to extend the findings of the investigators' first observational clinical study titled "Towards personalized medicine: patient derived breast tumor grafts as predictors of relapse and response to therapy" (TOWARDS-I). In TOWARDS-II, the investigators will develop patient derived models (PDMs), comprising patient derived xenografts (PDXs) and organoids (PDO and PDxO), from patients newly diagnosed with local or locally advanced hormone receptor-low/Her2 negative or triple negative breast cancer. The investigators will prospectively evaluate the correlation between PDX engraftment with recurrence. Using PDMs, the investigators will perform genomic studies and functional drug screens (FPO). Upon distant disease recurrence, the investigators will return the results to the physician with the intent to inform treatment selection.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
80
Patient derived models (PDMs), comprising patient derived xenografts (PDXs) and organoids (PDO and PDxO),
Huntsman Cancer Institute at University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
RECRUITINGProportion of cases where clinically actionable therapies were identified by FPO.
Assess the feasibility and utility of Functional Precision Oncology (FPO) testing to identify therapies for patients with TNBC or HR-low/HER2- breast cancer who are at high risk of early recurrence
Time frame: up to 3 years
Compare the distant recurrence rates between patients whose tumors successfully engrafted in mice (PDX+) vs. not (PDX-)
Confirm that tumor engraftment as a PDX predicts early metastatic recurrence
Time frame: Data will be assessed at 1-year and 3-year endpoints from the time of definitive surgery.
Compare the recurrence rates between patients whose tumors successfully engrafted in mice (PDX+) vs. not (PDX-)
Confirm that tumor engraftment as a PDX predicts early metastatic recurrence
Time frame: Data will be assessed at 3-years from the time of definitive surgery.
Correlation between tumor engraftment (PDX+/-) and relapse-free survival, overall survival, and response to preoperative chemotherapy and treatment response as assessed on the Residual Cancer Burden scale
assess the correlation between PDX establishment and other clinical outcomes
Time frame: up to 3 years
Proportion of cases where any type of patient derived models are successfully generated and clinically actionable therapies are identified by functional precision oncology.
assess additional measures of feasibility and utility of Functional Precision Oncology
Time frame: up to 3 years
Correlation between MHCII Immune Activation Score (high vs. low and as a continuous variable) and tumor engraftment (PDX+/-) and clinical outcomes (relapse-free and overall survival).
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determine the correlation between MHCII immune activation score and PDX engraftment
Time frame: up to 3 years
Correlation between methylated ctDNA measurements as assessed using the MethylPatch assay pretreatment, pre- and post surgery, with PDX engraftment data (+/-) and clinical outcomes (relapse-free and overall survival)
determine if measurement of methylated ctDNA can strengthen predictions of recurrence when combined with PDX engraftment data
Time frame: up to 3 years
frequency with which therapeutic responses in PDX, PDxO, and/or PDO align with the clinical, radiographic, and pathologic responses observed in the matched patient
determine the concordance between therapeutic responses in PDX, PDxO, and/or PDO and matched patient tumors
Time frame: up to 3 years
determine the feasibility of returning FPO results to inform the selection of 2nd line therapy after recurrence
The proportion of cases where clinically actionable therapies are identified by FPO within 12 weeks of initiating 1st line therapy after distant recurrence. This endpoint is restricted to the subset of patients where clinically actionable therapies were not identified prior to time of distant recurrence
Time frame: up to 3 years
Calculate PFS ratios of 2nd line FPO-informed: 1st line "uninformed" therapy as a preliminary measure of efficacy
assess the clinical efficacy of treatment decisions informed by FPO compared with treatment decisions not informed by FPO
Time frame: up to 3 years