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NCT Number: NCT05498896

Investigate the Contribution of Ipatasertib to Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy Plus Atezolizumab in TNBC

International, randomised, open label, neo-adjuvant phase II trial in women with newly diagnosed, non-metastatic, high-risk (node positive and/or tumour size ≥ 2cm), triple negative breast cancer. The study aims to evaluate the effects of adding ipatasertib to chemotherapy and atezolizumab in patients with and without PI3CA/AKT1/PTEN genetic alterations.

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Key information

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

Female

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Phase 2

Primary location

Barts Health NHS Trust

London, United Kingdom

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

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

Inclusion criteria

  • Willing and able to provide written informed consent prior to study entry
  • Female ≥ 18 years of age
  • Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) Performance Status 0 to 1
  • Histologically confirmed TNBC
  • Node-positive (cT1-4 cN1-2 M0) and/or tumour size ≥2 cm (cT2-T4 cN0-2 M0) with no prior treatment
  • Adequate haematologic and end-organ function .
  • Patients of childbearing potential are eligible provided they have a negative serum or urine pregnancy test. Patients must agree to use adequate contraception
  • Ability to comply with the protocol
  • Representative formalin-fixed paraffin embedded breast tumour samples with an associated pathology report, determined to be available and sufficient for central testing OR tumour accessible for biopsy

Exclusion criteria

  • Evidence of metastatic breast cancer.
  • Any systemic therapy (e.g. chemotherapy, targeted therapy, immune-therapy) or radiotherapy for current breast cancer disease before study entry
  • Prior exposure to any CD137 agonists or immune checkpoint blockade therapies, including antiCTLA-4, anti-PD-1 or anti-PD-L1 antibody
  • Concurrent bilateral invasive breast cancer
  • Inflammatory breast cancer
  • Active malignancy (except for non-melanoma skin cancer, or histologically confirmed complete excision of carcinoma in-situ) within the past 36 months prior to study entry
  • Major surgery within the last 28 days or anticipation of the need for major surgery during study treatment
  • Known intolerance to any of the study drugs (ie, paclitaxel, doxorubicin, epirubicin, cyclophosphamide) or any of their excipients
  • Pre-existing peripheral neuropathy grade ≥ 2
  • History of autoimmune disease
  • History of Type I or Type II diabetes mellitus requiring insulin. Patients who are on a stable dose of oral diabetes medication ≥ 2 weeks prior to initiation of study treatment are eligible for enrolment
  • History of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis or organising pneumonia
  • History of HIV infection
  • Known active hepatitis infection or hepatitis C.
  • Active tuberculosis
  • Current treatment with anti-viral therapy for HBV
  • Treatment with systemic immunostimulatory agents within 4 weeks or 5 half-lives of the drug (whichever is longer) prior to initiation of study treatment
  • Patients receiving concomitant immunosuppressive agents or chronic systemic corticosteroids (≥10 mg prednisolone or an equivalent dose of other anti-inflammatory corticosteroids) use for ≥28 days at the time of study entry.
  • Significant cardiovascular disease
  • Severe infection within 4 weeks prior to initiation of study treatment
  • Any other disease, metabolic dysfunction, physical examination finding, or clinical laboratory finding that, in the investigator's opinion, gives reasonable suspicion of a disease or condition that contraindicates the use of an investigational drug, may affect the interpretation of the results, render the patient at high risk from treatment complications or interferes with obtaining informed consent
  • Psychological, familial, sociological or geographical conditions that do not permit compliance with the study protocol
  • Concurrent treatment with other experimental drugs. Participation in another clinical trial with any investigational drug within 30 days prior to study entry
  • Treatment with strong CYP3A inhibitors or strong CYP3A inducers within 2 weeks or 5 drug-elimination half-lives, whichever is longer, prior to initiation of study drug
  • Persistent toxicities (≥CTCAE grade 2) caused by previous cancer therapy, excluding alopecia and peripheral neuropathy
  • Pregnant or nursing women
  • Inability to swallow medication or malabsorption condition that would alter the absorption of orally administered medications
  • Clinically significant abnormalities of glucose metabolism
  • History of or active inflammatory bowel disease or active bowel inflammation

Treatment and study plan

Atezolizumab

Drug

IV infusion

Other names: Tecentriq

Ipatasertib

Drug

Oral

paclitaxel

Drug

IV infusion

Doxorubicin

Drug

IV infusion

Cyclophosphamide

Drug

IV infusion

Primary outcomes

  1. pCR

    Time frame: Time of definitive surgery (6 months after start of treatment)

    pCR defined as no microscopic evidence of residual invasive tumour

Secondary outcomes

  1. ORR

    Time frame: 5 years

    ORR as assessed by RECIST 1.1 principles, defined as percentage of subjects with best overall response of complete response (CR) or partial response (PR) in the relevant analysis population.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Queen Mary University of London

Other

Collaborators

  • Hoffmann-La Roche
  • MedSIR
  • Westdeutsche Studiengruppe GmbH (WSG)

Registry information

Official study title

A Randomised, Open-label Phase II Study to Determine the Contribution of Ipatasertib to Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy Plus Atezolizumab in Women With Triple-negative Breast Cancer

Acronym: BARBICAN

Important dates

Study start
2018
Primary completion
2026
Study completion
2026
First posted
Aug 12, 2022
Registry last updated
May 8, 2026

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