Clinical Research Directory

A Study of Tucatinib or Placebo With Trastuzumab and Pertuzumab for Metastatic HER2+ Breast Cancer

This study is being done to see if tucatinib works better than placebo when given with other drugs to treat participants with HER2-positive breast cancer. A placebo is a pill that looks the same as tucatinib but has no medicine in it. This study will also test what side effects happen when participants take this combination of drugs. A side effect is anything a drug does to the body besides treating your disease. Participants will have cancer that has spread in the body near where it started (locally advanced) and cannot be removed (unresectable) or has spread through the body (metastatic). In this study, all participants will get either tucatinib or placebo. Participants will be assigned randomly to a group. This is a blinded study, so patients and their doctors will not know which group a participant is in. All participants will also get trastuzumab and pertuzumab. These are 2 drugs used to treat this type of cancer.

The Impact of Intelligent Patient Management Model on Medication Adherence of Pyrotinib Compared to Traditional Patient Management Model: a Prospective, Multicenter, Randomized Controlled Clinical Study

This is a prospective, multicenter, randomized controlled clinical study to evaluate the effect of using intelligent patient management system on medication adherence of HER2 positive breast cancer patients receiving pyrotinib treatment. Pyrotinib is a small molecule tyrosine kinase inhibitor that can irreversibly inhibit HER1, HER2, and HER4.

Pre Operative Trastuzumab in Operable Breast Cancer

Background Information and Rationale: Trastuzumab is a humanized monoclonal antibody that acts extracellularly on the erbB-2 receptor.Trastuzumab is a recombinant humanized IgG1 monoclonal antibody against the human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2/erbB-2),which has shown in both in vitro assays and in animals, to inhibit the proliferation of human tumour cells that overexpress erbB-2. Additionally, trastuzumab is a potent mediator of antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity (ADCC). In vitro, trastuzumab-mediated ADCC has been shown to be preferentially exerted on erbB-2 overexpressing cancer cells compared with cancer cells that do not overexpress erbB-2. Trastuzumab has emerged as a widely accepted standard of care for erbB-2-positive disease. (Metastatic/ adjuvant/neoadjuvant. Our current hypothesis suggests that the cells which are disseminated at the time of surgery will encounter an inhospitable environment which will be anti-HER in nature. Therefore combining the above mentioned streams of thought, we would like to assess the effect of a short pre-operative course of Trastuzumab on breast cancer relapse. The study is proposed in HER2 positive patients with operable breast cancer. Objectives : Primary: The primary objective of the study is to see the effect of short duration of peri-operative Trastuzumab on disease-free survival in comparison in all patients Secondary: The safety of the pre-operative therapies including the early post operative morbidity 1. Overall survival (OS) in all patients and in pathologically node positive patients. 2. The level of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in the peripheral blood assessed before starting pre-operative therapy and at the same time point in the control arm, level of CTCs 10 minutes prior to start of surgery, during surgery and 10 days after surgery on 40 consecutive consenting patients (20 in each arm). The levels of circulating chromatin will also be estimated at the same time points as CTC for these 40 patients. 3. Evaluation of the paraffin blocks for pTEN loss6-8 and p95ErbB2 truncated form of HER2 on 100 consecutive consenting patients (50 in each arm).9-11 Study Design : This is phase 3, randomized Double blinded parallel group study of Trastuzumab in pre operative setting in operable breast cancer patients. Approximately 1000 patients with Women with HER2neu positive, T1/T2/T3 and N0/N1. clinical T4 and/or N2 disease who are considered operable by the treating surgeon with histopathological diagnosis on core biopsies, will be included in the study. Patients with T4 or N2 (locally advanced and large operable for neo-adjuvant chemotherapy) will not be included. All node positive patients will receive single injection of Depot Inj. Progesterone 500 mg deep IM 4 -14 days prior to surgery Patients will be stratified, before randomization for Tumor size, menopausal status, and affordability for Trastuzumab and centre of the study. These patients will then be randomized 1:1 to receive the following Intervention arm: .A single dose of Trastuzumab (Herceptin, Hoffman La Roche) at 8 mg/Kg as a 90 minute intravenous infusion in 250 ml of normal saline, in the window period of 10-15 4 to 14 days (both days inclusive) prior to the planned date of surgery. Control arm: A 90 minute intravenous infusion of saline as placebo All patients will thereafter receive standard post-operative adjuvant therapy as per local institutional practice including hormonal therapy, chemotherapy and radiation therapy.

Three Antidiarrheal Strategies in HER2+/HR+ Early Breast Cancer Patients Treated With Extended Adjuvant Neratinib

A Randomized Phase II Study to Evaluate the Incidence of Discontinuations due to Diarrhoea at 3 Cycles in patients with Early-stage HER2-positive (HER2+), Hormone Receptor-positive (HR+) Breast Cancer treated with Neratinib plus Loperamide prophylaxis versus Neratinib with Initial Dose Escalation plus PRN Loperamide prophylaxis versus Neratinib plus Loperamide plus Colesevelam prophylaxis.

Randomized Controlled Clinical Study of Efficacy and Safety of Initumab Combined with Pyrrotinib and Chemotherapeutic Agents in Neoadjuvant Therapy for HER2-positive Breast Cancer with Different Treatment Cycles

The purpose of this study was to explore the efficacy and safety of initumab combined with pyrrotinib and chemotherapy for 4 cycles and 6 cycles of neoadjuvant therapy for HER2-positive breast cancer, and to explore the efficacy and safety of continued use of initumab combined with pyrrotinib in pCR patients. This study adopted A prospective, randomized controlled, open-label design, and selected eligible subjects to be randomly divided into cohort A and Cohort B. Cohort A will receive initumab at initial load dose of 8mg/kg and maintenance dose of 6mg/kg intravenously on the first day of every three weeks for a total of 4 doses. Pyrrotinib 400mg orally once daily; Combined chemotherapy drugs (not limited, according to the actual clinical selection), a total of 4 cycles of administration. After surgery for breast cancer, initumab + pyrrotinib was selected as adjuvant therapy for pCR patients after surgery for 1 year (neoadjuvant therapy + adjuvant therapy for a total of 1 year, a total of 13 cycles of adjuvant therapy), and non-pCR patients were selected by doctors. Cohort B will receive initumab at initial load dose of 8mg/kg and maintenance dose of 6mg/kg intravenously on the first day of every three weeks. Pyrrotinib 400mg orally once daily; Combined chemotherapy drugs (not limited, according to the actual clinical selection), a total of 6 cycles of administration. After surgery for breast cancer, initumab + pyrrotinib was selected as adjuvant therapy for pCR patients after surgery for 1 year (neoadjuvant therapy + adjuvant therapy for a total of 1 year, and adjuvant therapy for a total of 11 cycles), and non-pCR patients were selected by doctors.

A Prospective Study of Breast Cancer Patients With Abnormal Strain Imaging

The Cardio-Oncology program at Northwestern offers care to cancer patients who develop cardiac toxicities from chemotherapy. Breast cancer patients with the tumor marker for HER2 necessitate treatment with anthracycline and/or trastuzumab and pertuzumab-based chemotherapies, which are known to cause cardiac toxicities. Breast cancer patients will undergo a "cardio-oncology echocardiogram" which incorporates advanced left ventricular assessment by utilizing deformation or strain imaging during chemotherapy treatment for surveillance of cardiac toxicities. The aims of this project are: 1. To create a registry of both clinical, and echocardiographic variables, biomarkers, and genetic analysis that will be used to develop a risk model to predict LV dysfunction in early stage breast cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy with anthracycline and/or trastuzumab and pertuzumab-based chemotherapy regimens. 2. To propose a new management algorithm for initiation of prophylactic beta-blocker therapy for early stage breast cancer patients with preclinical cardiac toxicities demonstrated by strain parameters. 3. To determine if initiation of prophylactic beta-blocker therapy in patients with early cardiac toxicity can delay or prevent a drop in LV EF and the development of clinical heart failure. 4. To explore serial measurements of a suite of novel biomarkers during ongoing anticancer treatment that are presumed but not yet proven to be predictive of cardiac dysfunction in women with breast cancer. 5. To identify DNA biomarkers of predilection to cardiotoxicity. 6. To generate hiPSC to validate markers predictive of cardiotoxicity.