Palbociclib in Molecularly Characterized ER-positive/HER2-negative Metastatic Breast Cancer
PYTHIA
A Phase II Study of Palbociclib Plus Fulvestrant for Pretreated Patients With ER+/HER2- Metastatic Breast Cancer
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interventional
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3 countries
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Brief Summary
This international, multicenter, prospective single arm Phase II biomarker discovery clinical trial with the primary objective of assessing the association of PFS with gene mutations, gene copy number aberrations and gene signatures in post-menopausal women with hormone receptor positive, HER2-negative metastatic or locally relapsed breast cancer whose disease has progressed after prior adjuvant endocrine therapy or one line systemic treatment, i.e., endocrine treatment or chemotherapy, administered for metastatic disease.
Trial Health
Trial Health Score
Automated assessment based on enrollment pace, timeline, and geographic reach
participants targeted
Target at P75+ for phase_2
Started Aug 2016
Longer than P75 for phase_2
19 active sites
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Study Timeline
Key milestones and dates
First Submitted
Initial submission to the registry
August 25, 2015
CompletedFirst Posted
Study publicly available on registry
September 1, 2015
CompletedStudy Start
First participant enrolled
August 30, 2016
CompletedPrimary Completion
Last participant's last visit for primary outcome
August 28, 2020
CompletedStudy Completion
Last participant's last visit for all outcomes
December 22, 2022
CompletedResults Posted
Study results publicly available
February 26, 2024
CompletedFebruary 26, 2024
July 1, 2023
4 years
August 25, 2015
September 8, 2021
July 24, 2023
Conditions
Keywords
Outcome Measures
Primary Outcomes (1)
Number of Participants With and Without Progression Free Survival (PFS) Events
Time from treatment initiation until documented disease progression according to RECIST 1.1 or death, whichever occurs first
Maximum 36 months
Secondary Outcomes (2)
Best Overall Response
From date of enrolment until patient's end of treatment visit (or a maximum of 12 months after EoT in the absence of tumor progression), assessed up to 48 months.
Best Overall Response of Complete Response (CR) or Partial Response (PR) or Stable Disease (SD)
From date of enrolment until patient's end of treatment visit (or a maximum of 12 months after EoT in the absence of tumor progression), assessed up to 48 months.
Study Arms (1)
Experimental
EXPERIMENTALPalbociclib plus Fulvestrant
Interventions
125 mg, orally, daily for 3 weeks followed by 1 week off; repeated at every 28 days cycle until progression, lack of tolerability, or patient declines further protocol treatment.
500mg, intramuscularly on days 1 and 15 of cycle 1, then on day 1 (+/- 3 days) of every 28 days cycle until progression, lack of tolerability, or patient declines further protocol treatment.
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if:
- Female gender
- Age ≥ 18 years
- Postmenopausal, defined as women with:
- Prior bilateral surgical oophorectomy; or
- Amenorrhea and age ≥ 60 years; or
- Age \< 60 years and amenorrhea for 12 or more consecutive months in the absence of alternative pathological or physiological cause and FSH and serum estradiol levels within the laboratory's reference ranges for postmenopausal women.
- Endocrine resistant disease, defined as one of:
- Relapse while on adjuvant endocrine therapy;
- Relapse within 12 months after completion of adjuvant endocrine therapy;
- Progression of disease under first line endocrine therapy for metastatic and/or loco-regionally advanced breast cancer.
- Note: Patient may have received one prior chemotherapy for advanced or metastatic breast cancer.
- ER positive tumor and HER2-negative tumor, as assessed locally
- ECOG Performance Status 0-1.
- Measurable or non-measurable but evaluable disease according to RECIST 1.1.
- Written Informed Consent (IC) for screening procedures.
- +15 more criteria
You may not qualify if:
- Prior use of fulvestrant or any CDK inhibitor.
- More than one prior line of chemotherapy for metastatic or locally relapsed disease.
- Previous or current non-breast malignancies within the last 5 years, with the exception of in situ carcinoma of the cervix, and adequately treated basal cell or squamous cell carcinoma of the skin.
- Known active uncontrolled or symptomatic CNS metastases, carcinomatous meningitis or leptomeningeal disease as indicated by clinical symptoms, cerebral edema, and/or progressive growth.
- Any of the following in the previous 6 months: myocardial infarction, severe/unstable angina pectoris, ongoing cardiac dysrhythmias of NCI CTCAE grade ≥2, atrial fibrillation of any grade, coronary/peripheral artery bypass graft, symptomatic congestive heart failure (NYHA functional classification ≥3), cerebrovascular accident including transient ischemic attack, or symptomatic pulmonary embolism.
- QTc exceeding 480msec, family or personal history of long or short QT syndrome, Brugada syndrome or known history of QTc prolongation, or Torsade de Pointes (TdP).
- Uncontrolled electrolyte disorders that can reinforce the QT-prolonging effect of the drug (e.g., hypocalcemia, hypokalemia, hypomag¬nesemia).
- Known history of HIV seropositivity. HIV screening is not required at baseline.
- Uncontrolled diabetes defined as HbA1c level \> 7.5%.
- Concurrent disease or familial, sociological or geographical condition that would make the patient inappropriate for trial participation or any serious medical disorder that would interfere with the patient's safety.
- Dementia, altered mental status, or any psychiatric condition that would prevent the understanding or rendering of Informed Consent.
- Known abnormalities in coagulation such as bleeding diathesis, or treatment with anticoagulants precluding intramuscular injections of fulvestrant.
- Treatment with an investigational agent in the 4 weeks before enrollment.
- Concurrent treatment with any of the drugs not permitted
- Adverse events (except alopecia) from previous systemic cancer therapy, radiotherapy or surgery have not recovered to CTCAE v4.0 grade 1 or resolved prior to enrollment.
Contact the study team to confirm eligibility.
Sponsors & Collaborators
- ETOP IBCSG Partners Foundationlead
- Breast International Groupcollaborator
Study Sites (19)
Sint-Augustinus
Antwerp, 2610, Belgium
Institut Jules Bodet
Brussels, 1000, Belgium
Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc
Brussels, 1200, Belgium
Antwerp University Hospital
Edegem, 2650, Belgium
UZ Leuven
Leuven, Belgium
CHU Liege
Liège, Belgium
Clinique St. Elizabeth
Namur, 5000, Belgium
Ospedali degli Infermi, S.O.C. Oncologia
Biella, 13879, Italy
Ospedale Centrale Bolzano, Medical Oncology
Bolzano, Italy
IRCCS San Martino University Hospital
Genova, Italy
Mater Salutis Hospital AULSS 21 della Regione Veneto
Legnago, Italy
Istituto Europeo di Oncologia
Milan, Italy
Istituti Clinici Scientifici Maugeri, Medical Oncology Unit
Pavia, 27100, Italy
Azienda USL4 Prato
Prato, Italy
Velindre NHS Trust
Cardiff, United Kingdom
Western General Hospital
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre
Glasgow, United Kingdom
Singleton Hospital
Swansea, United Kingdom
Royal Cornwall
Truro, United Kingdom
Related Publications (5)
Mittendorf EA, Liu Y, Tucker SL, McKenzie T, Qiao N, Akli S, Biernacka A, Liu Y, Meijer L, Keyomarsi K, Hunt KK. A novel interaction between HER2/neu and cyclin E in breast cancer. Oncogene. 2010 Jul 8;29(27):3896-907. doi: 10.1038/onc.2010.151. Epub 2010 May 10.
PMID: 20453888BACKGROUNDFinn RS, Crown JP, Lang I, Boer K, Bondarenko IM, Kulyk SO, Ettl J, Patel R, Pinter T, Schmidt M, Shparyk Y, Thummala AR, Voytko NL, Fowst C, Huang X, Kim ST, Randolph S, Slamon DJ. The cyclin-dependent kinase 4/6 inhibitor palbociclib in combination with letrozole versus letrozole alone as first-line treatment of oestrogen receptor-positive, HER2-negative, advanced breast cancer (PALOMA-1/TRIO-18): a randomised phase 2 study. Lancet Oncol. 2015 Jan;16(1):25-35. doi: 10.1016/S1470-2045(14)71159-3. Epub 2014 Dec 16.
PMID: 25524798BACKGROUNDTurner NC, Ro J, Andre F, Loi S, Verma S, Iwata H, Harbeck N, Loibl S, Huang Bartlett C, Zhang K, Giorgetti C, Randolph S, Koehler M, Cristofanilli M; PALOMA3 Study Group. Palbociclib in Hormone-Receptor-Positive Advanced Breast Cancer. N Engl J Med. 2015 Jul 16;373(3):209-19. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1505270. Epub 2015 Jun 1.
PMID: 26030518BACKGROUNDDi Leo A, Malorni L. Polyendocrine treatment in estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer: a "FACT" yet to be proven. J Clin Oncol. 2012 Jun 1;30(16):1897-900. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2012.41.7394. Epub 2012 Apr 30. No abstract available.
PMID: 22547606BACKGROUNDMalorni L, Tyekucheva S, Hilbers FS, Ignatiadis M, Neven P, Colleoni M, Henry S, Ballestrero A, Bonetti A, Jerusalem G, Papadimitriou K, Bernardo A, Seles E, Duhoux FP, MacPherson IR, Thomson A, Davies DM, Bergqvist M, Migliaccio I, Gebhart G, Zoppoli G, Bliss JM, Benelli M, McCartney A, Kammler R, De Swert H, Ruepp B, Fumagalli D, Maibach R, Cameron D, Loi S, Piccart M, Regan MM; International Breast Cancer Study Group; Breast International Group and PYTHIA Collaborators. Serum thymidine kinase activity in patients with hormone receptor-positive and HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer treated with palbociclib and fulvestrant. Eur J Cancer. 2022 Mar;164:39-51. doi: 10.1016/j.ejca.2021.12.030. Epub 2022 Feb 13.
PMID: 35172272DERIVED
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MeSH Terms
Conditions
Interventions
Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)
Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)
Results Point of Contact
- Title
- Head Trial Activities and Deputy Director: Dr. Heidi Roschitzki-Voser
- Organization
- International Breast Cancer Study Group
Study Officials
- STUDY CHAIR
Luca Malorni, MD PhD
USL4 Hospital of Prato, Italy
Publication Agreements
- PI is Sponsor Employee
- No
- Restrictive Agreement
- No
Study Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Phase
- phase 2
- Allocation
- NA
- Masking
- NONE
- Purpose
- TREATMENT
- Intervention Model
- SINGLE GROUP
- Sponsor Type
- NETWORK
- Responsible Party
- SPONSOR
Study Record Dates
First Submitted
August 25, 2015
First Posted
September 1, 2015
Study Start
August 30, 2016
Primary Completion
August 28, 2020
Study Completion
December 22, 2022
Last Updated
February 26, 2024
Results First Posted
February 26, 2024
Record last verified: 2023-07
Data Sharing
- IPD Sharing
- Will not share