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NCT Number: NCT02258451

Study of Radium-223 Dichloride in Combination With Exemestane and Everolimus Versus Placebo in Combination With Exemestane and Everolimus in Subjects With Bone Predominant HER2 Negative Hormone Receptor Positive Metastatic Breast Cancer

The objective of this study is to assess efficacy and safety of radium 223 dichloride in subjects with human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) negative hormone receptor positive breast cancer with bone metastases treated with exemestane and everolimus

After implementation of CSP Amendment 10, only a limited number of subjects will remain in this study, in order to reduce the burden to study subjects, collection of data will be reduced and will focus mainly on acute safety, SSE, and OS. Once subjects are rolled over, the long-term safety will be collected and assessed entirely in the separate extended safety follow-up study.

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Key information

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

Female

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Phase 2

Primary location

Innsbruck, Austria

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Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

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

Inclusion criteria

  • Women (≥18 years of age) with metastatic breast cancer not amenable to curative treatment by surgery or radiotherapy.
  • Documentation of histological or cytological confirmation of estrogen receptor positive (ER+) and HER2 negative adenocarcinoma of the breast must be available.
  • Documentation of menopausal status: postmenopausal subjects or pre-menopausal subjects with ovarian radiation or concomitant therapy with a luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LH-RH) agonist/antagonist are eligible.
  • Subjects with bone dominant disease with at least 2 skeletal metastases identified at baseline by bone scintigraphy and confirmed by computed tomography (CT)/magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
  • Subjects must have received at least one line of hormonal therapy in the metastatic setting.
  • Subjects who are eligible as per the Investigator's assessment and according to the local label for treatment with exemestane and everolimus as a second line or greater of hormone therapy in a metastatic setting.
  • Subjects must have experienced recurrent/progressive disease following treatment with a non-steroidal aromatase inhibitor (letrozole or anastrozole) in an adjuvant or metastatic setting
  • Subjects must have experienced no more than two skeletal-related events (SREs) prior to study entry defined as: need for external beam radiotherapy (EBRT) to bone pain, pathological bone fracture (excluding major trauma), spinal cord compression and/or orthopedic surgical procedure. Subjects with no prior SREs are not permitted.
  • Subjects must be on therapy with bisphosphonates or denosumab for at least 1 month before start of study treatment.
  • Adequate hematological, liver and kidney function.

Exclusion criteria

  • Subjects with Inflammatory breast cancer.
  • Patients with immediately life-threatening visceral disease for whom chemotherapy is preferred treatment option.
  • Subjects who have either received chemotherapy for metastatic disease or are considered by the treating investigator to be appropriate candidates for chemotherapy as current treatment for metastatic breast cancer are excluded. Chemotherapy administered for adjuvant/neo adjuvant disease is acceptable provided it was administered at least 1 year prior to study entry.
  • Subjects who received prior treatment or are already receiving everolimus treatment prior to study entry are not eligible.
  • Subjects with known or history of brain metastases or leptomeningeal disease: subjects with neurological symptoms must undergo a contrast CT scan or MRI of the brain within 28 days prior to randomization to exclude active brain metastasis. Imaging of the central nervous system (CNS) is otherwise not required.

Treatment and study plan

Radium-223 dichloride (Xofigo, BAY88-8223)

Drug

Up to 6 cycles of radium-223 dichloride 50kBq/kg body (55 kBq/kg after implementation of NIST update)

Placebo (saline)

Drug

Up to 6 cycles of saline injection

Exemestane

Drug

One 25 mg tablet once daily after a meal.

Everolimus

Drug

The recommended dose of everolimus administered in the study is 10 mg once daily with or without food.

Starting dose, dose modifications, and administration of exemestane and everolimus must be in compliance with the local labels in each of the participating countries and/or in line with local standard of practice.

Primary outcomes

  1. Symptomatic Skeletal Event-free Survival (SSE-FS)

    Time frame: Up to 55 months

    Time from date of randomization to occurrence of one of the following, whichever happened earlier: 1) an on study SSE, which was defined as the use of external beam radiotherapy (EBRT) to relieve skeletal symptoms, the occurrence of new symptomatic pathological bone fractures (vertebral or nonvertebral), the occurrence of spinal cord compression, a tumor related orthopedic surgical intervention; or 2) death from any cause. Per Protocol Amendment 10, following primary analysis completion, further assessments were focused on safety, and only limited efficacy data including SSE and survival were collected and not designed to support reconsideration of the primary analysis efficacy conclusions. Accordingly, no formal statistical analyses were performed for primary and secondary efficacy outcomes in the final analysis. All primary and secondary efficacy outcome measures presented in this document came from the primary completion analysis.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Overall Survival

    Time frame: Up to 55 months

    The time from the date of randomization to the date of death due to any cause. Per Protocol Amendment 10, following primary analysis completion, further assessments were focused on safety, and only limited efficacy data including SSE and survival were collected and not designed to support reconsideration of the primary analysis efficacy conclusions. Accordingly, no formal statistical analyses were performed for primary and secondary efficacy outcomes in the final analysis. All primary and secondary efficacy outcome measures presented in this document came from the primary completion analysis.

  2. Time to Opiate Use for Cancer Pain

    Time frame: Up to 55 months

    Interval from the date of randomization to the date of opiate use

  3. Time to Pain Progression

    Time frame: Up to 55 months

    Time from randomization to the first date a participant experienced pain progression based on WPS. Pain progression was defined as an increase of 2 or more points in the BPI-SF "Worst pain in 24 hours" score from baseline observed at 2 consecutive evaluations ≥4 weeks apart or an increase in pain management (IPM) with respect to baseline, whichever occurred first. An IPM is defined as the initiation of any opioid in participants not taking opioids at baseline, the initiation of a strong opioid in participants taking a weak opioid at baseline, or the initiation of an additional strong opioid in participants taking a strong opioid at baseline.

  4. Time to Cytotoxic Chemotherapy

    Time frame: Up to 55 months

    Time from the date of randomization to the date of the first cytotoxic chemotherapy

  5. Radiological Progression-free Survival (rPFS)

    Time frame: Up to 55 months

    Time from the date of randomization to the date of confirmed radiological progression in either soft tissue, viscera or bone, or death (if death occurs before progression). Progression is defined using the modified RECIST 1.1 criteria (the modification refers to bone lesions assessment). Progression is defined as a 20% increase in the sum of the longest diameter of target lesions, or an unequivocal increase in non-target lesions, or the appearance of new lesions. All bone lesions are considered non-measurable and new bone lesions identified by bone scan should be confirmed by further imaging (CT/MRI). If a new bone lesion or unequivocal increase in size of bone lesions is only visible on a CT/MRI and not visible on a technetium-99m bone scan, progression should be declared without further confirmation.

  6. Percentage of Participants With Pain Improvement

    Time frame: Up to 55 months

    In the percentage of participants with confirmed pain improvement. Confirmed pain improvement is defined a 2-point decrease or more in BPI-SF WPS from baseline over 2 consecutive measurements conducted at least 4 weeks apart, without an increase in pain management (IPM). An IPM is defined as the initiation of any opioid in participants not taking opioids at baseline, the initiation of a strong opioid in participants taking a weak opioid at baseline, or the initiation of an additional strong opioid in participants taking a strong opioid at baseline.

  7. Number of Participants With Treatment-emergent Adverse Events (TEAEs)

    Time frame: From first dosing up to 30 days after the last administration of study treatments, up to 72.6 months

    An AE was any untoward medical occurrence (i.e. any unfavorable and unintended sign [including abnormal laboratory findings], symptom or disease) in a patient or clinical investigation participant after providing written informed consent for participation in the study. AEs were considered to be treatment-emergent if they started or worsened after first application of study intervention up to 30 days after end of treatment with study intervention. A serious adverse event (SAE) was an AE resulting in any of the following outcomes or deemed significant for any other reason: death; initial or prolonged inpatient hospitalization; life-threatening; persistent or significant disability/incapacity; congenital anomaly; another medical important serious event as judged by the investigator and an occurrence of any additional malignancies, including acute myelocytic leukemia or hematological conditions.

  8. Number of Participants With Post-treatment Chemotherapy Related Adverse Events

    Time frame: From post-treatment till end of study, up to 45.8 months

    According to protocol amendment 10, all participants who completed the EOT visit will be transferred to a separate extended safety follow-up study for their remaining follow-up. Thus, no further post-treatment data were collected after protocol amendment 10.

  9. Number of Participants With Hematological Toxicities: Worst Grade Under Treatment

    Time frame: From first dosing up to 30 days after the last administration of study treatments, up to 72.6 months

  10. Number of Participants With New Primary Malignancies

    Time frame: From first dosing till end of study, up to 72.6 months

Other outcomes

  1. Number of Participants With Treatment-emergent Adverse Events (TEAEs) (From First Dosing Till Primary Analysis)

    Time frame: From first dosing till primary analysis cutoff date, up to 55 months

    An AE was any untoward medical occurrence (i.e. any unfavorable and unintended sign [including abnormal laboratory findings], symptom or disease) in a patient or clinical investigation participant after providing written informed consent for participation in the study. AEs were considered to be treatment-emergent if they started or worsened after first application of study intervention up to 30 days after end of treatment with study intervention. A serious adverse event (SAE) was an AE resulting in any of the following outcomes or deemed significant for any other reason: death; initial or prolonged inpatient hospitalization; life-threatening; persistent or significant disability/incapacity; congenital anomaly; another medical important serious event as judged by the investigator and an occurrence of any additional malignancies, including acute myelocytic leukemia or hematological conditions.

  2. Number of Participants With Post-treatment Chemotherapy Related Adverse Events (From First Dosing Till Primary Analysis)

    Time frame: From post-treatment till primary analysis cutoff date, up to 55 months

  3. Number of Participants With Hematological Toxicities: Worst Grade Under Treatment (From First Dosing Till Primary Analysis)

    Time frame: From first dosing till primary analysis cutoff date, up to 55 months

  4. Number of Participants With New Primary Malignancies During Study Treatment Till Primary Analysis

    Time frame: From first dosing till primary analysis cutoff date, up to 55 months

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Bayer

Industry

Registry information

Official study title

A Phase II Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled Trial of Radium-223 Dichloride in Combination With Exemestane and Everolimus Versus Placebo in Combination With Exemestane and Everolimus When Administered to Metastatic HER2 Negative Hormone Receptor Positive Breast Cancer Subjects With Bone Metastases

Important dates

Study start
2015
Primary completion
2020
Study completion
2022
First posted
Oct 7, 2014
Registry last updated
Nov 24, 2023

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