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Preventing High Blood Sugar in People Being Treated for Metastatic Breast Cancer
Sponsor: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Summary
The purpose of this study to find out whether a very low carbohydrate diet (ketogenic diet), a low carbohydrate diet, or the study drug canagliflozin can prevent high blood sugar and may improve the effectiveness of cancer therapy in people who are receiving standard treatment with alpelisib and fulvestrant for their metastatic PIK3CA-mutant breast cancer.
Official title: Targeting Insulin Feedback to Enhance Alpelisib (TIFA): A Phase 2 Randomized Control Trial in Metastatic PIK3CA-mutant Hormone-Receptor Positive Breast Cancer
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - Any
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
15
Start Date
2021-10-08
Completion Date
2026-10-08
Last Updated
2025-10-27
Healthy Volunteers
No
Interventions
Ketogenic Diet
Properly formulated meals will be provided to both diet groups for the first 12 weeks to facilitate compliance in women with metastatic breast cancer prescribed alpelisib. After 12 weeks, subjects on the two dietary arms will be given the option to cross-over to the other diet arm and continue the prescribed dietary formulation. The decision to cross over will be per patient preference.
Low Carbohydrate Diet
Properly formulated meals will be provided to both diet groups for the first 12 weeks to facilitate compliance in women with metastatic breast cancer prescribed alpelisib. After 12 weeks, subjects on the two dietary arms will be given the option to cross-over to the other diet arm and continue the prescribed dietary formulation. The decision to cross over will be per patient preference.
Alpelisib
The recommended dose of PIQRAY is 300 mg (two 150 mg film-coated tablets) taken orally, once daily, with food. Patients should take their dose of PIQRAY at approximately the same time each day.
Fulvestrant
The recommended dose is 500 mg to be administered intramuscularly into the buttocks slowly (1 - 2 minutes per injection) as two 5 mL injections, one in each buttock, on days 1, 15, 29 and once monthly thereafter.
Canagliflozin
Canagliflozin is an inhibitor of SGLT2, the transporter responsible for reabsorbing the majority of glucose filtered by the kidney. For the first week of canagliflozin dosing, the dose will be 100 mg. Starting week 2 and onward the dose will be 300 mg and supplied by the site.
Locations (9)
Memorial Sloan Kettering Basking Ridge (Limited Protocol Activities)
Basking Ridge, New Jersey, United States
Memorial Sloan Kettering Monmouth (Limited Protocol Activities)
Middletown, New Jersey, United States
Memorial Sloan Kettering Bergen (Limited Protocol Activities)
Montvale, New Jersey, United States
Memorial Sloan Kettering Suffolk - Commack (Limited protocol activity)
Commack, New York, United States
Memorial Sloan Kettering Westchester (All protocol Activities)
Harrison, New York, United States
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York, United States
Weill Cornell Medical College (Data Collection & Data Analysis)
New York, New York, United States
Memorial Sloan Kettering Nassau (Limited Protocol Activities)
Uniondale, New York, United States
Ohio State University (Data Collection & Data Analysis)
Columbus, Ohio, United States