Clinical trial NCT00191373: A Trial for HER2 Positive Breast Cancer Patients With Metastatic Disease
Official title: Phase II Study of Gemcitabine and Trastuzumab Therapy in Patients With HER2 Overexpressing Metastatic Breast Cancer
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: PHASE2
Conditions: Breast Neoplasms
Cancer of the Breast
Breast Cancer
Lead sponsor: Eli Lilly and Company
Sponsor class: INDUSTRY
First posted: 2005-09-19
Enrollment: 66
Sex: FEMALE
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: This phase II trial that includes Gemcitabine 1,250mg/m2 to be administered over approximately 30 minutes on days 1 and 8, every 21 days and Trastuzumab 8 mg/kg IV to be administered over 90 minutes on day 1 of the first cycle, then 6mg/kg as a 30 minute infusion administered on subsequent cycles.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Patients must have histologically or cytologically confirmed invasive breast cancer, with stage IV disease
* Tumors tested by IHC must be 3+ positive for HER2 overexpression. Tumors tested by FISH must be positive by the specific FISH assay for genetic amplification of HER2. Tumors that are 3+ by IHC but negative by FISH assay are ineligible
* Patients must have measurable disease
* Patients may NOT have received prior chemotherapy or prior trastuzumab therapy for metastatic breast cancer.
* Patients may have received prior chemotherapy and/or hormonal therapy for early stage breast cancer, including taxane-based chemotherapy regimens. Patients may NOT have received trastuzumab in the adjuvant setting unless disease free interval from completion of trastuzumab to time of relapse is greater than 12 months.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Patients who have had prior gemcitabine chemotherapy and adjuvant trastuzumab and had less than 12- month disease free interval
* Patients with known leptomeningeal carcinomatosis

Primary outcomes:
measure: - Overall response rates
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Time to disease progression,Time to treatment failure, Overall survival, Toxicity of the combination
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Hot Springs
country: United States
facility: For additional information regarding investigative sites for this trial, contact 1-877-CTLILLY (1-877-285-4559, 1-317-615-4559) Mon-Fri from 9AM to 5PM Eastern Time (UTC/GMT - 5 hours, EST), or speak with your personal physician.
state: Arkansas
city: Pine Bluff
country: United States
facility: For additional information regarding investigative sites for this trial, contact 1-877-CTLILLY (1-877-285-4559, 1-317-615-4559) Mon-Fri from 9AM to 5PM Eastern Time (UTC/GMT - 5 hours, EST), or speak with your personal physician.
state: Arkansas
city: Redding
country: United States
facility: For additional information regarding investigative sites for this trial, contact 1-877-CTLILLY (1-877-285-4559, 1-317-615-4559) Mon-Fri from 9AM to 5PM Eastern Time (UTC/GMT - 5 hours, EST), or speak with your personal physician.
state: California
city: Hollywood
country: United States
facility: For additional information regarding investigative sites for this trial, contact 1-877-CT-LILLY (1-877-285-4559, 1-317-615-4559) Mon-Fri from 9AM to 5PM Eastern Time (UTC/GMT - 5 hours, EST), or speak with your personal physician.
state: Florida
city: Plantation
country: United States
facility: For additional information regarding investigative sites for this trial, contact 1-877-CTLILLY (1-877-285-4559, 1-317-615-4559) Mon-Fri from 9AM to 5PM Eastern Time (UTC/GMT - 5 hours, EST), or speak with your personal physician.
state: Florida
city: Baltimore
country: United States
facility: For additional information regarding investigative sites for this trial, contact 1-877-CTLILLY (1-877-285-4559, 1-317-615-4559) Mon-Fri from 9AM to 5PM Eastern Time (UTC/GMT - 5 hours, EST), or speak with your personal physician.
state: Maryland
city: Voorhees
country: United States
facility: For additional information regarding investigative sites for this trial, contact 1-877-CTLILLY (1-877-285-4559, 1-317-615-4559) Mon-Fri from 9AM to 5PM Eastern Time (UTC/GMT - 5 hours, EST), or speak with your personal physician.
state: New Jersey
city: Philadelphia
country: United States
facility: For additional information regarding investigative sites for this trial, contact 1-877-CTLILLY (1-877-285-4559, 1-317-615-4559) Mon-Fri from 9AM to 5PM Eastern Time (UTC/GMT - 5 hours, EST), or speak with your personal physician.
state: Pennsylvania
city: Pittsburgh
country: United States
facility: For additional information regarding investigative sites for this trial, contact 1-877-CTLILLY (1-877-285-4559, 1-317-615-4559) Mon-Fri from 9AM to 5PM Eastern Time (UTC/GMT - 5 hours, EST), or speak with your personal physician.
state: Pennsylvania
city: Knoxville
country: United States
facility: For additional information regarding investigative sites for this trial, contact 1-877-CTLILLY (1-877-285-4559, 1-317-615-4559) Mon-Fri from 9AM to 5PM Eastern Time (UTC/GMT - 5 hours, EST), or speak with your personal physician.
state: Tennessee
city: Logan
country: United States
facility: For additional information regarding investigative sites for this trial, contact 1-877-CT-LILLY (1-877-285-4559, 1-317-615-4559) Mon-Fri from 9AM to 5PM Eastern Time (UTC/GMT - 5 hours, EST), or speak with your personal physician.
state: Utah
city: Ogden
country: United States
facility: For additional information regarding investigative sites for this trial, contact 1-877-CT-LILLY (1-877-285-4559, 1-317-615-4559) Mon-Fri from 9AM to 5PM Eastern Time (UTC/GMT - 5 hours, EST), or speak with your personal physician.
state: Utah
city: Morgantown
country: United States
facility: For additional information regarding investigative sites for this trial, contact 1-877-CTLILLY (1-877-285-4559, 1-317-615-4559) Mon-Fri from 9AM to 5PM Eastern Time (UTC/GMT - 5 hours, EST), or speak with your personal physician.
state: West Virginia
Study officials:
affiliation: Eli Lilly and Company
name: CALL 1-877-CTLILLY (1-877-285-4559) OR 1-317-615-4559 Mon-Fri 9 AM - 5 PM Eastern Time (UTC/GMT - 5 hours, EST)
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
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