Conditions: Breast Cancer
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 79
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
This study will evaluate the efficacy and safety of pertuzumab (rhuMAb 2C4) in participants with metastatic breast cancer which has progressed during or after standard chemotherapy and which is not amenable to curative therapy. Those who are maintaining a response to therapy or who have stable disease at the end of the formal study period will continue treatment until disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Approximately 120 participants will be enrolled.

Detailed description:

Arms:
arm 1: Participants will not receive a loading dose, but will receive pertuzumab 1050 milligrams (mg) via intravenous (IV) infusion every 3 weeks until unacceptable toxicity or disease progression. arm 2: Participants will receive a loading dose of 840 mg via IV infusion at the first infusion of pertuzumab, followed by a maintenance dose of 420 mg every 3 weeks until unacceptable toxicity or disease progression.

Interventions: intervention 1: Pertuzumab
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: Participants will receive one of two IV treatment regimens with pertuzumab: either 420 mg every 3 weeks, with an initial 840-mg loading dose, or 1050 mg every 3 weeks with no loading dose administered.

Protocol document: