Clinical Trials Radar

The Oligopro-Breast trial is a Phase II study targeting women with ER+/HER2- metastatic breast cancer who have been on endocrine therapy and/or CDK4/6 inhibitors for at least 6 months, and show progressive disease at 1-3 extracranial metastases, which are treatable locally. The trial aims to investigate if treating these resistant metastases with SBRT (or other local treatments if SBRT is not possible) can extend the use of the current systemic therapy. Patients will continue their existing systemic treatment while receiving SBRT on all progressive lesions. If new oligoprogression occurs, SBRT will be performed again. A new systemic treatment line will start if there is polyprogression (more than 3 lesions at once), progression of more than 6 lesions over 12 months, intracranial progression, or lesions that cannot be treated locally. The scientific question is whether local treatment of resistant metastases can prolong the effectiveness of ongoing systemic therapy, which is particularly beneficial if the treatment is well-tolerated. The primary objective is to measure the proportion of patients surviving without changing their systemic treatment line at 6 months after SBRT. This trial is significant for patients as it explores a method to potentially extend the duration of effective and well-tolerated treatments, offering hope for better management of metastatic breast cancer.

Phase I Study of NT-175, an autologous T cell therapy product genetically engineered to express an HLA-A\*02:01-restricted T cell receptor (TCR), targeting TP53 R175H mutant solid tumors.

The MINERVA Trial aims to evaluate safety, efficacy and quality of life (QoL) for the combination of Abemaciclib with an Aromatase Inhibitor or Fulvestrant in pre- and postmenopausal patients with metastatic hormone receptor positive HER2 negative breast cancer in the first line setting. Side effect monitoring and patient reported outcomes will be captured using the web- and app-based CANKADO digital health application. Via this user-friendly tool the patients can document their therapy side effects (e.g. diarrhea) and outcomes on a day-to-day basis. The capturing of side effects using the digital health application will be done additionally to the regular AE documentation. Furthermore, translational research objectives of this trial include the investigation of biomarkers (ct-DNA, germline DNA) to evaluate whether they can give insights into the reasons for response, intrinsic or acquired resistance to the combined endocrine

This study is a single-center, bidirectional cohort study. It aims to include 35 elderly (≥65 years old) Luminal A type breast cancer patients with axillary lymph node metastasis after surgery as the research subjects. After signing the informed consent, the patients who meet the inclusion criteria will have their various clinical and pathological data collected (preoperative imaging examinations, clinical and pathological information of the patients, basic disease conditions and medication strategies, surgical records, postoperative planned treatment plans and actual treatment situations, etc.), and their real adjuvant treatment situations (whether chemotherapy, radiotherapy, endocrine therapy, targeted therapy, etc. were performed after surgery) will be followed up and recorded. At the same time, paraffin tissues of breast cancer and metastatic lymph nodes of the patients will be collected from the pathology department of our hospital for 21-gene assay, and the recurrence risk index of the primary lesion and metastatic lymph nodes will be obtained using the risk index calculation logic of Amoy Diagnostics Company. An assessment will be conducted every 12 months after surgery until disease recurrence. After disease recurrence, survival follow-up will be conducted every three months until the patient's death. The predictive value of 21-gene assay for patient survival and whether chemotherapy is beneficial will be evaluated based on the follow-up data of the patients.

This pilot observational study is being done to identify possible biomarkers of response to endocrine therapy in patients with ER/PR+ metastatic lobular breast cancer (LBC) starting new endocrine therapy. 18F-fluorofuranylnorprogesterone Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography (FFNP-PET/CT) and liquid biopsies will be performed at baseline and after 4 weeks of treatment. Baseline levels and dynamic on-treatment changes in estrogen signaling as measured by FFNP-PET/CT and circulating tumor cell (CTC) liquid biopsy will be correlated with clinical response to endocrine therapy and progression-free survival in the above cohort of patients.

A longitudinal, non-interventional study with trastuzumab deruxtecan for patients with HER2-low expressing unresectable or metastatic breast cancer in Bulgaria and Slovenia

This is an exploratory, ctDNA-guided, multi-stage clinical study designed to evaluate the clinical value of treatment decision-making based on circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) variant allele frequency (VAF) dynamics in patients with HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer. All enrolled patients will receive antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) therapy for two cycles in Stage 1, with serial ctDNA assessments performed prior to Cycle 1 and Cycle 2. In Stage 2, patients without disease progression will be assigned to different treatment strategies based on the percentage reduction in mean ctDNA VAF. The study aims to assess whether ctDNA VAF dynamics can serve as an early biomarker to guide treatment intensification and improve clinical outcomes in metastatic breast cancer.

Based on the results of the phase Ib/II study, the investigators hypothesize that combining a RET inhibitor lenvatinib with endocrine therapy letrozole improves objective response and progression-free survival compared to fulvestrant alone in the second line setting in patients who have progressed on first line endocrine therapy incorporating a CDK4/6 inhibitor. Letrozole and fulvestrant are anti-hormonal drugs that have been proven to have activity and are considered standard therapies for hormone receptor positive breast cancer. The purpose of this study is to determine if the combination therapy of letrozole (an anti-hormonal drug) and lenvatinib (a targeted therapy), when compared to another anti-hormonal drug fulvestrant, is effective in patients with hormone receptor positive breast cancer. Preliminary studies have shown that approximately 50-60% of hormone receptor positive breast cancers over-express RET, and may therefore respond to treatment by a drug that blocks the RET pathway. An earlier study conducted at the National University Cancer Institute, Singapore (NCIS) on the combination of letrozole and Lenvatinib has shown promising results. Among patients in whom hormonal therapy and a CDK4/6 inhibitor no longer worked, about one-quarter of patients had meaningful disease control. The study also showed that patients tolerated the combination of Lenvatinib and letrozole well with manageable side effects. Based on the promising findings from the earlier study, this study seeks to compare the effectiveness of lenvatinib plus letrozole with another standard anti-hormone treatment drug called fulvestrant. In addition, investigators are studying how body reacts to the treatment as well as studying gene and protein changes in the tumour in response to treatment, which may in the future, help us tailor drug treatment for individual patients according to the patient's and/or the tumour's genetic or protein make-up.

This study aims to evaluate whether \^68Ga-TROP2 PET/CT, combined with \^18F-FDG PET/CT, can predict the efficacy of anti-TROP2 antibody-drug conjugates in patients with advanced HER2-negative breast cancer. Baseline and dynamic imaging parameters will be used to develop prediction models (primary endpoint: AUC), and their associations with clinical outcomes and tumor TROP2 status will be explored.

The purpose of this study is to understand the safety and estimate the efficacy of anti-CD3 x anti-HER2 bispecific antibody (HER2Bi) armed fresh peripheral blood mononuclear cells (HER2 FPBMC) for patients with metastatic breast or prostate cancer. Participants receive 5 weekly doses of CD33 FPBMC by intravenous infusion followed by 4 infusions every other week.

This phase II trial tests how well ARX788 works in treating patients diagnosed with HER2-low, locally advanced unresectable or metastatic breast cancer. ARX788 is an antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) that is given by infusion (diluted and injected slowly into veins). Antibodies are proteins which are naturally produced by the body's immune system to help fight infections. ARX788 consists of antibodies that have been attached to a toxin that has the potential to kill cancer cells. ARX788 sticks to a protein called human epidermal growth factor receptor (HER2), which is found on some breast cancer cells. Giving ARX788 may be safe and effective in treating patients with HER2-low locally advanced unresectable metastatic breast cancer.

HER2 gene amplification, detected in 20% to 30% of breast cancers, was a poor prognostic factor before the advent of anti-HER2 therapies. In the early 2000s, trastuzumab revolutionised the management of patients with HER2-positive (HER2+) breast cancer in the metastatic and localised stages of the disease. At the time of diagnosis of metastatic disease, 7-11% of patients have brain metastases, with (70% of cases) or without symptoms (30% of cases). In the absence of brain metastases, 30% to 50% of patients will develop brain metastases within the first two years of treatment, depending on whether the disease is hormone receptor positive (HR+) or negative (HR-). The presence of brain metastases is the most important prognostic factor. The neurological symptoms caused by the presence of these lesions, but also by the local treatments offered, affect patients' quality of life, although improvements in surgical and radiotherapy techniques have significantly reduced the need for particularly toxic whole brain radiotherapy. International guidelines do not recommend systematic brain MRI in the absence of neurological symptoms, either in the adjuvant or metastatic stages of this disease. However, there may be a role for more systematic and earlier screening for cerebral recurrence, as single cerebral recurrences without extracranial involvement are common and the new anti-HER2 agents (i.e. tucatinib, an anti-HER2 tyrosine kinase inhibitor, and T-Dxd) have shown significant objective response rates in cerebral metastases. To date, no clinical or histological prognostic factor (proliferation index, HR expression, etc.) has been used to identify a population of patients at high risk of cerebral relapse, allowing monitoring and treatment to be personalised. New tools for these indications would significantly modify our clinical practice, allowing the identification of a subpopulation at high risk of cerebral recurrence, suitable for increased monitoring and therapeutic adjustment.

Some studies have shown that approximately 15% of patients with advanced hormone receptor (HR) positive breast cancer and 1/3 of triple negative breast cancer will develop brain metastasis. At present, there is no unified drug treatment standard for HER2-negative breast cancer brain metastasis (BCBM). The evidence of single traditional chemotherapy drug as the main treatment of brain metastasis is not sufficient. Some exploratory studies on HER2-negative BCBM have shown that the central nervous system objective response rate (CNS-ORR) of anti-angiogenic drugs combined with chemotherapy is around 55%-80%。 Adebrelimab (a humanized PD-L1 monoclonal antibody) specifically blocks the binding of PD-1 and PD-L1, terminates the immunosuppressive signal produced by T cells, and makes T cells re-recognize tumor cells and kill them, thereby inhibiting tumor growth. In China, Adebelizumab has been approved for using in combination with chemotherapy as a first-line treatment for extensive stage small cell lung cancer. Apatinib (a small molecule VEGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor) mainly plays an anti-angiogenic effect in the treatment of malignant tumors by inhibiting VEGFR. Apatinib has been approved monotherapy for advanced gastric adenocarcinoma or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma that has progressed or relapsed after at least two systematic chemotherapies, advanced liver cancer that has failed or is intolerable after at least first-line systematic treatment, and first-line treatment in patients with unresectable or metastatic hepatocellular carcinoma combined with camrelizumab. Due to the lack of effective drug therapy for HER2-negative BCBM, a variety of treatment combinations are still being explored. We hypothesized that adebrelimab plus apatinib and etoposide is an explorable and effective treatment for HER2- negative BCBM.

This is a pilot study to evaluate the effects of azeliragon to decrease cardiac toxicity from chemotherapy and the safety of azelirgaon when given with chemotherapy. The Investigators hypothesize that there will be no significant interaction with Azeliragon and chemotherapy and that targeting the RAGE pathway will decrease anthracycline related cardiotoxicity and chemotherapy related cognitive decline.

Today, the majority of clinically node positive (cN+) breast cancer patients is treated with neoadjuvant systemic therapy (NST). Axillary staging and treatment after NST in cN+ patients are areas of controversy. Patients with a pathological complete response (pCR) of the axillary lymph nodes are not expected to benefit from axillary lymph node dissection (ALND). Hence, less invasive axillary staging procedures are being introduced to avoid unnecessary ALND. However, evidence supporting the safety of replacing ALND by less invasive techniques in terms of oncologic safety and impact on quality of life (QoL) is lacking.

This study is a multicenter, open-label, phase II study of YL202 in China to evaluate the efficacy, safety, and PK characteristics of YL202 in the following selected patients with advanced solid tumors.

This is a Phase II Study of HLX22 in Combination with Trastuzumab Deruxtecan (T-DXd) in HER2-low, Hormone Receptor Positive Locally Advanced or Metastatic Breast Cancer Patients with Disease Progression or Intolerable Adverse Reaction on Standard of Care. Eligible subjects will be treated with the study drug until the loss of clinical benefit, death, intolerable toxicity, withdrawal of informed consent, or other reasons specified by the protocol (whichever occurs first).

The purpose of this research study is to see if the medication sacituzumab govitecan (SG) is effective at the currently approved dose and schedule in people who have previously received trastuzumab deruxtecan (T-DXd) for the treatment of metastatic, hormone receptor positive (HR+)/human epidermal growth factor 2 low (HER2 low) breast cancer. Although SG is approved to treat metastatic HR+/HER2 negative breast cancer, the aim of this study is to determine if SG is still effective specifically in people who have already received T-DXd.

The purpose of this study is to determine the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) of OTS167 administered via oral capsule (PO) to patients with relapsed/refractory locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer.

Background: Metastasis is the spread of cancer from one organ to a nonadjacent organ. It causes 90% of cancer deaths. No treatment specifically prevents or reduces metastasis. Researchers hope a new drug can help. It stops cancer cells from growing and spreading further and possibly shrink cancer lesions in distant organs. Objective: To find a safe dose of metarrestin and to see if this dose shrinks tumors. Eligibility: Adults age 18 and older with pancreatic cancer, breast cancer, or a solid tumor that has not been cured by standard therapies. Also, children age 12-17 with a solid tumor (other than a muscle tumor) with no standard therapy options. Design: Participants will be screened with: * blood tests * physical exam * documentation of disease confirmation or tumor biopsy * electrocardiogram to evaluate the heart * review of their medicines and their ability to do their normal activities Participants will take metarrestin by mouth until they cannot tolerate it or stop to benefit from it. They will keep a medicine diary. Participants will visit the Clinical Center. During the first month there are two brief hospital stays required with visits weekly or every other week thereafter. They will repeat some of the screening tests. They will fill out questionnaires. They will have tests of their cognitive function. They will have an electroencephalogram to record brain activity. They will have a computed tomography (CT) scan or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). A CT is a series of X-rays of the body. An MRI uses magnets and radio waves to take pictures of the body. Adult participants may have tumor biopsies. Participants will have a follow-up visit 30 days after treatment ends. Then they will have follow-up phone calls or emails every 6 months for the rest of their life or until the study ends.

This study adopts a multicenter, natural selection, observational design, and plans to enroll patients with HER-2 positive advanced or metastatic breast cancer treated at approximately 20 research centers nationwide. Patients with de novo stage IV disease or those with recurrent metastatic breast cancer who have not previously received trastuzumab, as well as patients with brain metastases, will be included for separate stratified efficacy analysis and will not be included in the overall analysis. The study plans to enroll effective data from 600 HER-2 positive advanced or metastatic breast cancer patients, who will be naturally allocated in a 1:1 ratio to either Group A (switching from HP + chemotherapy to HPy + chemotherapy) or Group B (switching from HPy + chemotherapy to HP + chemotherapy), with each group comprising approximately 300 patients. If first-line treatment fails, patients will switch to the alternative regimen in second-line treatment. All patients will continue treatment until disease progression, intolerable toxicity, or other reasons lead to discontinuation, with the number of treatment cycles recorded. The study is divided into three phases: screening/baseline period, treatment period (treatment period 1 + treatment period 2), and survival follow-up period. If patients develop intolerance to taxanes during treatment, clinicians may select alternative chemotherapy regimens such as vinorelbine, capecitabine, or eribulin based on clinical judgment. During the treatment period, patients will be followed up every two cycles, during which clinical data will be collected, including disease status assessments, laboratory tests, study drug usage, concomitant medications, and adverse events. After chemotherapy completion or treatment discontinuation, subsequent maintenance therapy, such as continued dual-targeted maintenance, may be administered by clinicians based on clinical needs until disease progression or intolerable toxicity occurs. Survival follow-up will be conducted every three months (for up to three years), with patient survival status recorded.

This is a randomized, multicenter, open-label, phase 3 study evaluating the efficacy, safety, and tolerability of IBI354 combined with or without pertuzumab vs. THP as first-line treatment for HER2-positive unresectable, locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer.

A strategy to target the oncogenic receptor HER2 using a version of the anti-HER2 therapeutic antibody trastuzumab coupled to desferrioxamine (DFO) and radiolabeled with zirconium-89 (\[89Zr\]-DFO-trastuzumab) has been successfully evaluated in our group in preclinical settings. Clinical studies by other groups in recent years have shown the potential of targeting HER2+ lesions with \[89Zr\]-DFO-trastuzumab in patients with HER2+ cancers. We now want to establish the diagnostic potential of a protocol adding \[89Zr\]-DFO-trastuzumab PET imaging to FDG PET already used in the clinic for the detection of HER2-expressing cancers, including low expression levels considered until now as HER2-negative (HER2-low, IHC score 1+ and 2+ without FISH amplification of the HER2 locus). The HER2-low status has recently gained relevance thanks to large studies showing the efficacy of immunotherapy combined with drugs such as Enhertu (trastuzumab-deruxtecan), while trastuzumab alone was traditionally only effective for HER2+ cancers (IHC score 2+/FISH+, or 3+). In particular, we aim to develop a method to assess whole-body intertumoral heterogeneity in HER2 expression in order to detect cases with heterogeneous diseases and thus better stage patients and guide the optimal choice of personalized and targeted treatment to use. More specifically, the project aims to image with \[89Zr\]-DFO-trastuzumab PET patients with cancer, particularly breast cancer, but also esophageal, gastric, ovarian, endometrial and lung cancer, and whose primary tumor status is HER2-low.

This phase IIa trial studies the side effects of abemaciclib monotherapy in treating patients age 70 years and older with hormone receptor positive, HER2 negative breast cancer that has spread to other places in the body.

This study is based on the finding that tumor cells that are grown in the laboratory can be modified in such a way that, when injected to the patient, they will stimulate his/her immune response. This approach will be evaluated in patients with melanoma and colorectal, gastric, ovarian, breast, lung and kidney epithelial cancer. Tumor cells grown in the laboratory will be modified to make them stimulatory to the immune system, irradiated to kill them, and injected to the patient eight times at two-week intervals. This protocol is expected to prolong survival of metastatic cancer patients.