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NCT Number: NCT07653893

A Phase II Observational Clinical Study on the Relationship Between Cerebrospinal Fluid Drug Concentration and Efficacy of Trastuzumab Deruxtecan in Central Nervous System Metastatic Breast Cancer

Approximately 5-15% breast cancer patients develop brain metastases. Current local treatments (surgery/radiotherapy) are associated with significant complications, and systemic treatments have limited efficacy. Although new-generation ADC drugs, such as trastuzumab deruxtecan, have demonstrated breakthrough efficacy in patients with brain metastases, the mechanisms of action are not fully elucidated, moreover the current treatment regimens still have limitations for patients with HER2-low expressing, safer and more effective systemic treatment options are urgently needed to improve patient survival. BCBM-006 is an open-label, prospective, single-arm, single-center Phase II clinical study to evaluate the relationship between cerebrospinal fluid drug concentration and efficacy of trastuzumab deruxtecan in central nervous system metastatic breast cancer, and explore the incidence of leptomeningeal metastases diagnosed via lumbar puncture in patients with brain parenchymal metastases, facilitate early intervention to improve prognosis.

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Key information

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Observational

Primary location

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • 1. ≥18 years(2007-06), any gender. 2. ECOG Performance Status 0-2. 3. Evidence of local recurrence or metastatic breast cancer not amenable to curative surgery or radiotherapy, and planned for intravenous trastuzumab deruxtecan treatment.
  • Expected survival time ≥8 weeks. 5. Provision of sufficient fresh tissue specimen or ≥10 unstained slides of tumor sample (primary and/or metastatic site) for biomarker analysis prior to treatment (intracranial metastatic lesion specimens preferred).
  • Cohort 2 (Experimental Cohort): Presence of brain parenchymal metastases confirmed by contrast-enhanced brain MRI, with at least one measurable brain lesion not previously irradiated, evaluable per RECIST 1.1 criteria.
  • Patients receiving mannitol, steroids, or anticonvulsant therapy prior to the first dose are eligible if the drug doses are stable for at least one week without requiring an increase, and neurological symptoms are stable for ≥1 week.
  • Organ function levels must meet the following requirements:
  • Hematology:
  • ANC≥1.5×109/L;
  • PLT≥75×109/L;
  • Hb≥90 g/L (allowing blood transfusion or medication to ensure hemoglobin content);
  • Coagulation function: APTT≤1.5×ULN;PT≤1.5×ULN;
  • Blood Chemistry:
  • TBIL≤1.5×ULN;
  • ALT and AST≤3×ULN (≤ 5.0×ULN for liver metastases);
  • Creatinine ≤1.5 × ULN or Creatinine Clearance ≥50 mL/min (Cockcroft-Gault formula);
  • Cardiac Ultrasound: LVEF ≥50%;
  • 12-Lead ECG: Fridericia-corrected QT interval (QTcF) <470 ms for females, <450 ms for males; 9. Voluntary participation in this study, signed informed consent, good compliance, and willingness to cooperate with follow-up.

Exclusion criteria

  • 1. Presence of uncontrolled third-space fluid accumulation (e.g., large pleural effusion or ascites) not manageable by drainage or other methods, deemed unsuitable for enrollment by the investigator.
  • Previous treatment with an anti-HER2 ADC drug carrying the same payload resulting in resistance. Patients who discontinued prior ADC therapy for other reasons, including but not limited to toxicity, are eligible.
  • Adverse reactions from prior anti-tumor therapy have not recovered to ≤ Grade 1 per CTCAE v5.0 (except for ≤ Grade 2 toxicities judged by the investigator as having no safety risk, such as alopecia or long-term toxicities from radiotherapy).
  • History of other malignancies within the past 5 years, excluding cured carcinoma in situ of the cervix, basocellular skin carcinomas, or cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma.
  • History of severe cardiovascular or cerebrovascular diseases, including but not limited to:
  • Severe cardiac rhythm or conduction abnormalities requiring clinical intervention, such as ventricular arrhythmia, II-III degree atrioventricular block, etc.
  • Cardiac insufficiency of Class III~IV according to the New York Heart Association (NYHA) criteria.
  • Acute coronary syndrome, congestive heart failure, aortic dissection, stroke, or other Grade 3 or higher cardiovascular/cerebrovascular events within 6 months prior to the first dose.
  • Clinically uncontrolled hypertension.
  • Any factors increasing the risk of QTc prolongation or arrhythmia, such as heart failure, hypokalemia, congenital long QT syndrome, use of any concomitant medications known or suspected to prolong the QT interval; Known history of allergy to any component of the study drug.
  • History of immunodeficiency disease, including other acquired or congenital immunodeficiency diseases, history of organ transplantation, allogeneic bone marrow transplantation, or autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.
  • HIV infection, active HBV or HCV infection. The following exceptions are allowed:
  • Patients positive for hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg), with or without positive hepatitis B core antibody (anti-HBc), if HBV DNA < 1000 IU/mL or below the lower limit of detection at the research center, and per investigator assessment excluding active infection based on clinical treatment and presentation.
  • Hepatitis C (HCV) antibody-positive patients who are HCV RNA-negative. 8. History of autoimmune diseases, including but not limited to myasthenia gravis, myositis, autoimmune hepatitis, systemic lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis, Guillain-Barré syndrome, multiple sclerosis, or glomerulonephritis, except for autoimmune thyroid dysfunction treated with stable-dose hormone replacement therapy.
  • Patients with known idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, organizing pneumonia (e.g., bronchiolitis obliterans), drug-induced pneumonitis, idiopathic pneumonitis, interstitial lung disease, severe radiation pneumonitis, or evidence of active pneumonia on screening chest CT scan.
  • Inability to cooperate with lumbar puncture. 11. Vaccination with any vaccine within 28 days prior to the first dose. 12. Pregnant or lactating female patients; female patients of childbearing potential with baseline pregnancy test positive; or patients unwilling to use effective contraception throughout the trial period.
  • Presence of any concomitant disease, per investigator judgment, that seriously endangers the patient's safety or affects the patient's ability to complete the study (including but not limited to severe hypertension that cannot be controlled by medication, severe diabetes, active infection, thyroid disease, etc.).
  • Any other circumstances where the researcher deems the patient unsuitable for participation in this study.

Treatment and study plan

No interventions

Other

no interventions

Primary outcomes

  1. Correlation between cerebrospinal fluid trastuzumab deruxtecan concentration and intracranial objective response

    Time frame: Cerebrospinal fluid samples will be collected at baseline, 6 hours after initiation of trastuzumab deruxtecan infusion, and at disease progression. Intracranial efficacy will be assessed up to 24 months.

    Spearman correlation coefficient between cerebrospinal fluid trastuzumab deruxtecan concentration (ng/mL), measured by iquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS), and intracranial objective response assessed according to RANO-BM criteria.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Objective Response Rate (ORR)

    Time frame: Assessed up to 24 months.

    Percentage of participants achieving complete response (CR) or partial response (PR) according to RECIST version 1.1.

  2. Intracranial Objective Response Rate (CNS-ORR)

    Time frame: Assessed up to 24 months.

    Percentage of participants achieving complete response (CR) or partial response (PR) in intracranial lesions according to RANO-BM criteria.

  3. Clinical Benefit Rate (CBR)

    Time frame: Assessed up to 24 months.

    Percentage of participants achieving complete response (CR), partial response (PR), or stable disease (SD) lasting at least 24 weeks according to RECIST version 1.1.

  4. Intracranial Clinical Benefit Rate (CNS-CBR)

    Time frame: Assessed up to 24 months.

    Percentage of participants achieving complete response (CR), partial response (PR), or stable disease (SD) lasting at least 24 weeks in intracranial lesions according to RANO-BM criteria.

  5. Progression-Free Survival (PFS)

    Time frame: From first dose until disease progression or death from any cause, assessed up to 24 months.

    Time from the first dose of trastuzumab deruxtecan until disease progression according to RECIST version 1.1 or death from any cause, whichever occurs first.

  6. Intracranial Progression-Free Survival (CNS-PFS)

    Time frame: From first dose until intracranial progression or death from any cause, assessed up to 24 months.

    Time from the first dose of trastuzumab deruxtecan until intracranial progression according to RANO-BM criteria or death from any cause, whichever occurs first.

  7. Overall Survival (OS)

    Time frame: From first dose until death from any cause, assessed up to 24 months.

    Time from the first dose of trastuzumab deruxtecan until death from any cause.

  8. Duration of Response (DoR)

    Time frame: From first documented response until disease progression or death from any cause, assessed up to 24 months.

    Time from the first documented complete response (CR) or partial response (PR) until disease progression according to RECIST version 1.1 or death from any cause, whichever occurs first.

  9. Number of Participants with Adverse Events (AEs)

    Time frame: From first dose through 30 days after the last dose of trastuzumab deruxtecan, assessed up to 24 months.

    Number of participants experiencing adverse events (AEs) graded according to the National Cancer Institute Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (NCI CTCAE) version 5.0.

  10. Health-Related Quality of Life Assessed by EORTC QLQ-C30

    Time frame: Baseline, prior to each treatment cycle, and at disease progression, assessed up to 24 months.

    Health-related quality of life assessed using the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire Core 30 (EORTC QLQ-C30). Scores are transformed to a 0-100 scale according to the EORTC scoring manual. Higher functional scores indicate better functioning, whereas higher symptom scores indicate greater symptom burden.

  11. Neurologic Assessment in Neuro-Oncology (NANO) Scale Score

    Time frame: Baseline, prior to each treatment cycle, and at disease progression, assessed up to 24 months.

    Neurological function assessed using the Neurologic Assessment in Neuro-Oncology (NANO) scale. Higher scores indicate greater neurologic impairment.

Other outcomes

  1. Frequency of genomic alterations associated with intracranial efficacy

    Time frame: Baseline, 6 hours after initiation of trastuzumab deruxtecan infusion, and at disease progression, assessed up to 24 months.

    Frequency of genomic alterations, including ESR1 and other driver gene alterations, detected by next-generation sequencing (NGS) in tumor tissue, cerebrospinal fluid, and circulating tumor cells (CTCs), and their association with intracranial efficacy.

  2. Correlation between HER2 expression level and cerebrospinal fluid trastuzumab deruxtecan concentration

    Time frame: Baseline, 6 hours after initiation of trastuzumab deruxtecan infusion, and at disease progression, assessed up to 24 months.

    Spearman correlation coefficient between HER2 expression level assessed by immunohistochemistry (IHC) and/or fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) in tumor tissue and cerebrospinal fluid trastuzumab deruxtecan concentration (ng/mL) measured by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS).

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Fudan University

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Registry information

Official study title

A Phase II Observational Clinical Study on the Relationship Between Cerebrospinal Fluid Drug Concentration of Trastuzumab Deruxtecan and Efficacy in Central Nervous System Metastatic Breast Cancer

Acronym: BCBM006

Important dates

Study start
2025
Primary completion
2027
Study completion
2028
First posted
Jun 17, 2026
Registry last updated
Jun 17, 2026

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