Pembrolizumab Adjuvant in Patients With Early-stage Triple Negative Breast Cancer With Residual Disease After Neoadjuvant Pembrolizumab Plus Chemotherapy

Trial statusNot yet recruiting
Trial phasePhase 3
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age18+
SponsorThe Netherlands Cancer Institute

About this trial

The phase III, multicenter, pragmatic PLANET trial aims to evaluate the benefit and safety of pembrolizumab as an addition to standard of care adjuvant treatment (capecitabine or olaparib) in triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) patients with residual disease (non-pCR) after neoadjuvant chemotherapy and pembrolizumab. All study procedures resemble routine clinical practice as much as possible (i.e., pragmatic clinical trial). In addition to the randomized trial, a registry will be set up, in which patients who reach pCR (and therefore, do not receive adjuvant treatment) will be registered and followed.

Eligibility criteria

This trial does not accept healthy volunteers

Qualifiers

Male or female, ≥18 years of age on day of signing informed consent

Stage II or III TNBC prior to the start of neoadjuvant treatment

Locally assessed stage II or III TNBC according to the primary tumor (T) and regional lymph node (N) staging as per the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) for breast cancer staging criteria version 8

Locally assessed estrogen receptor (ER) and/or progesterone receptor (PR) expression <10% and HER2-negative according to the ASCO-CAP guideline1

Disqualifiers

Contra-indications for any of the study drugs

Other invasive malignancies, except when treated with curative intent without chemotherapy AND more than 5 years ago

The presence of any psychological, familial, sociological or geographical condition potentially hampering compliance with the study protocol and follow-up schedule

Any other severe acute or chronic medical or psychiatric condition or laboratory abnormality that may increase the risk associated with study participation or may interfere with the interpretation of study results and, in the judgment of the investigator, would make the patient inappropriate for entry into this study

Trial design

Design model

Parallel

Treatments tested in this trial

  • Standard of care plus pembrolizumab

    Drug

    Standard of care adjuvant treatment (capecitabine or olaparib) plus pembrolizumab

  • Standard of care (capecitabine or olaparib)

    Drug

    Standard of care adjuvant treatment (capecitabine or olaparib)

Treatment groups

1,000 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groups
Group A: Standard of careActive comparator 1 intervention
Group B: Standard of care plus pembrolizumabExperimental treatment 1 intervention

Trial outcomes

Primary outcomes

1

Invasive disease free survival (IDFS)

IDFS, defined as time since randomisation to local or distant breast cancer recurrence, second primary non-breast cancer or death due to any cause, whichever occurs first.

Time frame
Up to 10 years after inclusion of the last patient

Secondary outcomes

1

Distant disease free survival (DDFS)

DDFS, defined as time from randomisation to distant recurrence or death due to any cause.

Time frame
Up to 10 years after inclusion of the last patient
2

Overall survival (OS)

OS, defined as time from randomisation to death due to any cause.

Time frame
Up to 10 years after inclusion of the last patient
3

Safety/adverse events of adjuvant pembrolizumab

Measured by adverse events (AEs), adverse events of special interest (AESIs) and serious adverse events (SAEs).

Time frame
Up to 28 days after inclusion of the last patient
4

Health related quality of life (HRQoL) - EORTC Quality of Life Questionnaire (QLQ)-C30

The effect of adjuvant pembrolizumab on health-related quality of life (HRQoL), assessed via Quality of Life Questionnaire (QLQ)-C30. For functional and global HRQoL scales, higher scores represent a better level of functioning and are converted to a 0 to 100 scale. For symptom-oriented scales, a higher score represents more severe symptoms.

Time frame
Up to 1 year after inclusion of the last patient

Other outcomes

Locations

This trial has no locations.

Sponsors and contacts

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The Netherlands Cancer Institute

Lead sponsor

BOOG Study Center

Collaborator

Stichting Treatmeds

Collaborator

Zorgevaluatie en Gepast Gebruik (ZE&GG)

Collaborator

Integraal Kankercentrum Nederland (IKNL)

Collaborator

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