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NCT Number: NCT07007559

ASPEN-09-03: A Study of Evorpacept in Combination With Trastuzumab and Chemotherapy in Metastatic HER2-Positive Breast Cancer

The Substudy Protocol ASPEN-09-03 is a Phase 2, single-arm, multicenter study evaluating the efficacy, safety, and tolerability of evorpacept in combination with trastuzumab and chemotherapy in participants with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer who have previously received trastuzumab-deruxtecan. This substudy is actively recruiting.

ASPEN-09-03 is a substudy under Master Protocol ASPEN-09, and additional substudies are as follows:

* Metastatic colorectal cancer (CRC) - dose escalation phase to evaluate evorpacept in combination with other drugs. This substudy is not open. * Recurrent/metastatic head and neck cancer (HNSCC) - dose escalation phase to evaluate evorpacept in combination with other drugs. This substudy is not open.

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Key information

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Phase 2

Primary location

University Health Network, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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About this study

Participants will continue study treatment until disease progression, death, unacceptable toxicity, participant request to stop treatment, investigator decision or study termination by the sponsor.

As ASPEN-09-03 (MBC) is the only substudy open under ASPEN-09, the information reflected in the enrollment number, arms/interventions, outcome measures, and eligibility criteria currently includes only MBC.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

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

Inclusion criteria

  • Histologically confirmed invasive HER2+ breast cancer.
  • Received at least one prior line of therapy including T-DXd (ENHERTU) for locally advanced/metastatic HER2+ breast cancer. Prior neoadjuvant therapy which resulted in relapse within 6 months of completion of T-DXd will be considered a line of treatment for metastatic disease. Participants who discontinue T-DXd due to intolerance are considered eligible.
  • Progressed on or following the most recent line of therapy.
  • Eligible to receive one of the following chemotherapy options (capecitabine, eribulin, gemcitabine, paclitaxel or vinorelbine).
  • Measurable disease as defined by RECIST v1.1.
  • LVEF ≥50%.
  • Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) Performance Status (PS) must be 0 to 1.
  • Life expectancy of at least 3 months.
  • Adequate renal function (estimated creatinine clearance ≥30 mL/min as calculated using the Cockcroft-Gault equation or Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration (CKD-EPI) equation.
  • Adequate liver function:
  • Total bilirubin ≤1.5 x upper limit of normal (ULN) (≤3.0 x ULN if the participant has documented Gilbert syndrome);
  • Aspartate and alanine transaminase (AST and ALT) ≤3 x ULN (≤5.0 x ULN if liver involved by metastatic disease).
  • Participants must have recovered from all AEs due to previous therapies, procedures, and surgeries to baseline severity or ≤Grade 1 per NCI CTCAE v5.0 except for AEs not deemed reversible and which do not constitute a safety risk by Investigator judgment.

Exclusion criteria

  • Participants with known CNS metastases unless treated and stable prior to enrollment.
  • Prior exposure to any anti-CD47 or anti-SIRPα agent.
  • Any condition that would be contraindicated to receiving trastuzumab
  • Has a diagnosis of complete dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase (DPD) deficiency or significant toxicity with prior flurouracil (5FU) based regimen
  • Following anti-cancer therapy with insufficient washout before start of treatment:
  • chemotherapy, hormonal therapy, radiation therapy or small molecule anti-cancer therapy within 14 days or 5 half-lives (whichever is shorter) of start of treatment.
  • Immune therapy or other biologic therapy (e.g., monoclonal antibodies, antibody-drug conjugates) for the treatment of cancer for: 28 days or 5 half-lives (whichever is shorter) of start of treatment).
  • History of autoimmune hemolytic anemia, autoimmune thrombocytopenia, or hemolytic transfusion reaction.
  • Had an allogeneic tissue/solid organ transplant.
  • Any active, unstable cardiovascular disease.
  • Intolerance to or who have had a severe allergic or anaphylactic reaction to antibodies or infused therapeutic proteins or participants who have had a severe allergic or anaphylactic reaction to any of the substances included in the study drug (including excipients).
  • Has an active autoimmune disease that has required systemic treatment in past 2 years.
  • Other primary malignancy within 2 years.

Treatment and study plan

Evorpacept (ALX148)

Drug

IV infusion

Trastuzumab

Drug

IV infusion

Other names: Herceptin

paclitaxel

Drug

IV infusion

Other names: Taxol

Capecitabine

Drug

Oral administration

Other names: Xeloda

Eribulin

Drug

IV infusion

Other names: Halaven

Gemcitabine

Drug

IV infusion

Other names: Gemzar

Vinorelbine

Drug

IV infusion

Other names: Navelbine

Primary outcomes

  1. Overall Response Rate (ORR) using RECIST v1.1 based on BICR assessment

    Time frame: Approximately 6 months after the last participant is enrolled

    Evaluate the ORR of evorpacept in combination with trastuzumab and single-agent chemotherapy in the sub-population of participants with metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer who express CD47 (CD47+). ORR is defined as a best overall response (BOR) of confirmed complete response (CR) or partial response (PR) using RECIST v1.1 based on BICR assessment.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Overall Response Rate (ORR) based on Investigator assessment

    Time frame: Approximately 6 months after the last participant is enrolled

    Evaluate the ORR of evorpacept in combination with trastuzumab and single-agent chemotherapy in the sub-population of participants with metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer who express CD47 (CD47+). ORR is defined as a best overall response (BOR) of confirmed complete response (CR) or partial response (PR) based on Investigator Assessment.

  2. Clinical Benefit Rate (CBR) using RECIST v1.1 based on BICR and Investigator assessment

    Time frame: Approximately 6 months after the last participant is enrolled

    Evaluate the CBR of evorpacept in combination with trastuzumab and single-agent chemotherapy in the sub-population of participants with metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer who express CD47 (CD47+). CBR is defined as the proportion of participants whose BOR is confirmed PR, confirmed CR, or SD with duration >6 months using RECIST v1.1 based on BICR and Investigator assessment.

  3. Duration of Response (DoR) using RECIST v1.1 based on BICR and Investigator assessment

    Time frame: Approximately 6 months after the last participant is enrolled

    Evaluate the DoR of evorpacept in combination with trastuzumab and single-agent chemotherapy in the sub-population of participants with metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer who express CD47 (CD47+). DoR is measured from the time measurement criteria are first met for CR / PR (whichever is first recorded) until documented progressive disease or death from any cause, whichever occurs first using RECIST v1.1 based on BICR and Investigator assessment.

  4. Progression-Free Survival (PFS) using RECIST v1.1 based on BICR and Investigator assessment

    Time frame: Approximately 6 months after the last participant is enrolled

    Evaluate the PFS of evorpacept in combination with trastuzumab and single-agent chemotherapy in the sub-population of participants with metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer who express CD47 (CD47+). PFS is measured from the date of enrollment until documented progressive disease or death from any cause, whichever occurs first, using RECIST v1.1 based on BICR and Investigator assessment

  5. Overall Survival (OS)

    Time frame: Approximately 6 months after the last participant is enrolled

    Evaluate the OS of evorpacept in combination with trastuzumab and single-agent chemotherapy in the sub-population of participants with metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer who express CD47 (CD47+). OS is defined as the time from the date of enrollment until death.

  6. Number of participants with adverse events (AEs) and with laboratory abnormalities

    Time frame: Enrollment to 28 days after the last administration of the study drug

    AEs as characterized by type, frequency, severity (as graded by NCI CTCAE v5.0), timing, seriousness, and relationship to study drug. Laboratory abnormalities as characterized by type, frequency, severity, and timing.

  7. Maximum Concentration (Cmax)

    Time frame: Approximately 6 months after the last participant is enrolled

    To evaluate the Cmax of evorpacept

  8. Time at Maximum Concentration (Tmax)

    Time frame: Approximately 6 months after the last participant is enrolled

    To evaluate the Tmax of evorpacept

  9. Area under the Concentration-Time Curve (AUC)

    Time frame: Approximately 6 months after the last participant is enrolled

    To evaluate the AUC of evorpacept

  10. Clearance (CL)

    Time frame: Approximately 6 months after the last participant is enrolled

    To evaluate the CL of evorpacept

  11. Terminal elimination half-life (t1/2)

    Time frame: Approximately 6 months after the last participant is enrolled

    To evaluate the t1/2 of evorpacept

  12. Evaluate the immunogenicity of evorpacept

    Time frame: Approximately 6 months after the last participant is enrolled

    Measured by presence of human serum ADA (anti-evorpacept antibodies)

Study contacts

Contact information is provided by the study sponsor or research team.

Cheng Quah, MD

CONTACT

[email protected]

650-466-7125

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

ALX Oncology Inc.

Industry

Registry information

Official study title

Protocol ASPEN-09-03: A Single-arm Phase 2 Multicenter Study of Evorpacept in Combination With Trastuzumab and Chemotherapy in Participants With Metastatic HER2-Positive Breast Cancer, a Substudy Under Master Protocol ASPEN-09: A Phase 1b/2, Multicenter, Multi Arm Study of Evorpacept in Combination With Anti-cancer Therapies in Advanced / Metastatic Malignancies

Acronym: ASPEN-09-03

Important dates

Study start
2025
Primary completion
2027
Study completion
2028
First posted
Jun 6, 2025
Registry last updated
Jun 5, 2026

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