Conditions: Breast Cancer
Keywords: Advanced Breast Cancer
Allocation: NON_RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Enrollment: 32
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
This trial will treat patients with advanced breast cancer with a new anti-cancer medicine used in combination with two existing anti-cancer medications: Albumin-bound paclitaxel (ABI-007), Carboplatin and Herceptin. Participants will be given the combination therapy on a weekly basis and may continue on therapy as long as their condition improves and drug toxicity is tolerated.

Detailed description:

Arms:
arm 1: Participants received albumin-bound paclitaxel, 100 mg/m\^2 weekly every 3 out of 4 weeks, carboplatin at an area under the curve (AUC) = 6 every 4 weeks and Herceptin weekly, 4 mg/kg the first week and 2 mg/kg on all subsequent weeks by intravenous (IV) infusion for up to 6 cycles in the absence of disease progression or intolerable toxicity. Participants could continue treatment with chemotherapy beyond 6 cycles at the discretion of the investigator, but Herceptin therapy was to continue to be administered weekly (2 mg/kg) until intercurrent illness, disease progression, unacceptable toxicity, patient withdrawal or administration of any non-protocol anti-cancer treatment.

Interventions: intervention 1: Albumin-bound paclitaxel intervention 2: Carboplatin intervention 3: Herceptin®
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: Administered by intravenous infusion. intervention 2: Carboplatin dose was calculated using a modified Calvert formula (creatinine clearance was substituted for GFR): Total dose (mg) = (target AUC) x (creatinine clearance + 25). Note: AUC = 6 was initially targeted, but could be decreased due to toxicity. intervention 3: Administered by IV infusion

Protocol document: