A Study of Radiation Therapy With Pembrolizumab and Olaparib or Other Radiosensitizers in Women Who Have Triple-Negative or Hormone-Receptor Positive/Her2 Negative Breast Cancer

Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phasePhase 2
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexFemale
Age18+
SponsorMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

About this trial

The purpose of this study is to find out whether adding pembrolizumab, with or without olaparib, to standard radiation therapy is a safe and effective treatment for metastatic breast cancer, , and to see whether the study treatment is better than, the same as, or worse than the usual approach (radiation therapy alone).

Eligibility criteria

This trial does not accept healthy volunteers

Qualifiers

Female participants who are at least 18 years of age on the day of signing informed consent with histologically confirmed diagnosis of triple negative breast cancer or ER+/Her2 will be enrolled in this study.

Have an Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0 to 1. Evaluation of ECOG is to be performed within 30 days prior to the date of allocation/randomization

Histologically or cytologically-confirmed TNBC (defined as ER <5%, PR <5%, HER- 2-neu 0-1+ by IHC or FISH-negative or per MD discretion).

Histologically of cytologically-confirmed ER+ breast cancer, defined as ER 1-100% and HER-2/neu 0-1+ by IHC or FISH-negative

Disqualifiers

Receipt of > 3 lines of systemic therapy in mTNBC patients

A WOCBP who has a positive urine pregnancy test within 72 hours or a serum pregnancy test within 14 days prior to treatment (see Appendix C). If the urine test is positive or cannot be confirmed as negative, a serum pregnancy test will be required.

A minimum 2-week washout required for all anti-cancer agents, including cytotoxic chemotherapeutic agents, immunotherapy, biologic therapy, and targeted therapies. A 3-4 week washout is preferred when reasonable.

Note: in the event that 72 hours have elapsed between the screening pregnancy test and the first dose of study treatment, another pregnancy test (urine or serum) must be performed and must be negative in order for subject to start receiving study medication.

Trial design

Design model

Parallel

Treatments tested in this trial

  • Pembrolizumab

    Drug

    Pembrolizumab 200 mg will be administered as a 30 minute IV infusion every 3 weeks for 3 doses

  • Olaparib

    Drug

    Olaparib will be administered twice daily continuously without breaks on a 21-day (3 week) cycle length, for a total of 2 cycles. Olaparib tablets will be administered bid (2 x 150 mg tablets twice daily; total 600 mg daily) on continuous days without interruption for 2 cycles. Each 3 week period constitutes one cycle.

  • Radiation

    Radiation

    The dose of radiation will be 8-9 Gy x 3 fractions. Radiation therapy will begin on C1D2-7. For tumors that are too large for this schedule, an accomodation of 30 Gy in 6 Gy per fraction is allowed, a schedule commonly used at MSK.

Treatment groups

34 Participants
are divided into 3 treatment groups
Group A: Arm AExperimental treatment 3 interventions
Group B: Arm B (the study is amended to pause Arm B)Experimental treatment 2 interventions
Group C: Arm C (activate new arm)Experimental treatment 3 interventions

Trial outcomes

Primary outcomes

1

Overall Response Rate

To assess overall response rate (ORR) to pembrolizumab + , SBRT + /-olaparib, in non-targeted unirradiated lesions at 8 weeks using RECIST v1.1 in patients with mTNBC who have progressed on ICI or are PD-L1 negative and mER+BC.

Time frame
8 weeks from baseline

Secondary outcomes

Other outcomes

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