Overview

Cemiplimab in High Risk or Locally Advanced Hormone Receptor Positive HER2 Negative or Triple-Negative Breast Cancer

Status:
Recruiting
Trial end date:
2023-03-15
Target enrollment:
0
Participant gender:
Female
Summary
This is a single-arm, open-label, phase 2 study that will enroll 36 subjects, who have pathologically proven diagnosis of invasive breast cancer, clinical stage tumor 1-3 (cT1-T3), node 0-3 (cN0-N3), metastasis 0 (cM0), hormone receptor positive (HR+) (estrogen-receptor-positive (ER+) and/or progesterone-receptor-positive (PR+) human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) negative or hormone receptor-negative (HR-) (estrogen-receptor-negative (ER-) and progesterone-receptor-negative (PR-) human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) negative/triple-negative breast cancer.
Phase:
Phase 2
Accepts Healthy Volunteers?
No
Details
Lead Sponsor:
Medical College of Wisconsin
Treatments:
Albumin-Bound Paclitaxel
Carboplatin
Cemiplimab
Cyclophosphamide
Doxorubicin
Hormones
Liposomal doxorubicin
Paclitaxel
Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:

1. Pathologically proven diagnosis of invasive breast cancer, cT1-T3, cN0-N3, cM0, HR+
(ER+ and/or PR+) HER2 negative or HR- (ER- and PR-) HER2 negative/triple negative
breast cancer.

2. Tumors with positive PD-L1 and/or PD-L1 protein expression. Positivity is defined as
PD-L1 and/or PD-L2 expression of ≥ 1% of immune cells within the stroma or in cancer
cells.

3. Estrogen and/or progesterone receptor positive tumor defined ≥1% positively staining
cells by immunohistochemistry, according to the current American Society of Clinical
Oncology (ASCO) / College of American Pathologists (CAP) guidelines.

4. HER2/neu must be negative by immunohistochemistry (IHC) defined as IHC 0 or 1+ or
fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) or other ISH methods with a ratio of < 2
according to current ASCO (American Society of Clinical Oncology)/CAP guidelines.

5. Candidate for neoadjuvant chemotherapy due to their clinical stage or subtype of
breast cancer as decided by the treating physician.

6. Breast imaging with mammogram and/or ultrasound and/or MRI is per standard of care for
diagnosis, but at least one modality of imaging must be completed within 30 days of
registration.

7. Systemic imaging with CT scan, bone scan, positron emission tomography (PET) scan or
MRI if clinically indicated per treating physician's discretion.

8. Left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) ≥ lower limit of normal (per institutional
normal) determined by echocardiogram or nuclear medicine scan within 30 days of
registration.

9. The patient must be female.

10. Age ≥18 years.

11. Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status 0 to 2.

12. The patient must provide study-specific informed consent prior to study entry.

13. Patients with a prior history of contralateral breast cancer will be considered
eligible, if they have completed all treatment (including endocrine therapy) more than
two years prior to registration.

14. Patients must not have had a prior treatment for this breast cancer or for any
malignancy diagnosed or treated within the past two years, with the exception of
non-melanomatous skin cancer, carcinoma in situ of the cervix and contralateral breast
cancer, as described above.

15. Patients with bilateral breast cancer are also eligible provided HER2 negativity is
documented on both right and left breast cancer and patient is deemed to be a
candidate for neoadjuvant chemotherapy by treating physician.

16. Patients with multicentric or multifocal disease are eligible if they are a candidate
for neoadjuvant chemotherapy.

17. Patients must meet one of the following:

- Postmenopausal for at least one year before the screening visit, or

- Surgically sterile, or

- If they are of childbearing potential, negative pregnancy test within 14 calendar
days prior to registration for women of childbearing potential

- Women of childbearing age must use at least two adequate methods of contraception
during the treatment period and at least 6 months from the last dose of
chemotherapy. Examples of contraceptives include barrier methods, intrauterine
devices (IUDs) hormonal or copper, oral contraceptive pills, and abstinence.
Hormonal methods are not to be used by patients with HR+ breast cancer.

18. Adequate organ function with baseline lab values.

- Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) ≥ 1500/µL

- Hemoglobin (Hb) ≥ 8g/dL

- Platelet count ≥ 100,000/µL

- Alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and aspartate aminotransferase (AST) ≤ 3x
institutional upper limit of normal (ULN)

- Serum bilirubin within ≤ 1.5 x ULN except patients with Gilbert's syndrome for
whom the direct bilirubin should be within normal range.

- Creatinine clearance of ≥ 30 mL/min

- International normalized ratio (INR) and activated partial thromboplastin time
(aPTT) ≤ 1.5 x ULN. This applies to patients not receiving therapeutic
anticoagulation. Patients on therapeutic anticoagulation should be on a stable
dose.

- Thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) ≤ institutional ULN

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Patients with clinical or pathologically proven metastatic disease.

2. HER2 positive disease as determined by either ISH or 3+ on IHC.

3. Synchronous non-breast malignancy (exceptions include non-melanomatous skin cancer,
carcinoma in situ of the cervix).

4. Purely noninvasive breast cancer (i.e., ductal carcinoma in situ, lobular carcinoma in
situ) without any concurrent invasive breast cancer

5. Men with breast cancer. Male breast cancer is a rare event.

6. Medical, psychiatric or other conditions that would prevent the patient from receiving
the protocol therapy or providing informed consent.

7. Pregnant or lactating women are ineligible.

8. Treatment with any investigational drug within 30 days of registration. Prior
treatment with any immunotherapy or chemotherapy for this breast cancer.

9. Current grade ≥ 2 peripheral neuropathy (according to NCI CTCAE v. 5.0).

10. Cardiopulmonary dysfunction defined as: Inadequately controlled angina, heart failure
or serious cardiac arrhythmia not controlled by adequate medication.

11. Active Hepatitis B defined as positive Hep B surface antigen (HBsAg) or Hepatitis C.
Patients with previous hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection or resolved HBV infection
(defined as having a negative HBsAg test and a positive antibody to hepatitis B core
antigen [anti-HBc] antibody test) are eligible. If HBV DNA testing is positive, the
patient is not eligible for study participation. Patients positive for hepatitis C
virus (HCV) antibody are eligible only if polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is negative
for HCV RNA.

12. Positive test for HIV.

13. History of symptomatic CHF⎯Grade ≥ 3 per NCI CTCAE v5.0 or New York Heart Association
(NYHA) Class ≥ II.

14. History of autoimmune disease, including but not limited to myasthenia gravis,
autoimmune myositis, autoimmune hepatitis, systemic lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid
arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease, vascular thrombosis associated with
antiphospholipid syndrome, Wegener granulomatosis, Sjögren's syndrome, Guillain-Barré
syndrome, multiple sclerosis, vasculitis, or glomerulonephritis.

- Patients with a history of autoimmune-related hypothyroidism on a stable dose of
thyroid replacement hormone may be eligible for this study.

- Patients with controlled Type 1 diabetes mellitus on a stable insulin regimen are
eligible for this study.

- Patients with eczema, psoriasis, lichen simplex chronicus, or vitiligo with
dermatologic manifestations only (e.g., patients with psoriatic arthritis) are
eligible, provided the disease has no systemic manifestations and requires only
low potency topical steroids (e.g., hydrocortisone 2.5%, hydrocortisone butyrate
0.1%, fluocinolone 0.01%, desonide 0.05%, alclometasone dipropionate 0.05%).

15. Treatment with systemic corticosteroids or other systemic immunosuppressive
medications (including but not limited to prednisone, dexamethasone, cyclophosphamide,
azathioprine, methotrexate, thalidomide, and anti-tumor necrosis factor (TNF) agents)
within 2 weeks prior to study entry, or anticipated requirement for systemic
immunosuppressive medications during the study. Patients who have received acute,
low-dose, systemic immunosuppressant medications equivalent to ≤ 10mg of prednisone
within the 7 days prior to study entry (small dose of dexamethasone for nausea, short
course for upper respiratory tract infection etc.) may be enrolled in the study.