A Study of Avastin (Bevacizumab) in Combination With Herceptin (Trastuzumab) and Xeloda (Capecitabine) in Patients With HER2-Positive Breast Cancer

Roche

Status and phase

Completed

Phase 2

Conditions

Breast Cancer

Treatments

Drug: capecitabine [Xeloda]

Drug: trastuzumab [Herceptin]

Drug: bevacizumab [Avastin]

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Industry

Identifiers

NCT00811135

MO21926

2008-003283-20

Details and patient eligibility

About

This single arm study will assess the efficacy and safety of Avastin in combination with Herceptin and Xeloda as first-line treatment of patients with HER2-positive locally recurrent or metastatic breast cancer. Patients will receive 3-weekly treatment cycles of Herceptin (8mg/kg iv on day 1 of first cycle, followed by 6mg/kg iv maintenance dose on day 1 of subsequent cycles), Xeloda (1000mg/m2 bid po on days 1-14 of each treatment cycle) and Avastin (15mg/kg on day 2 of first treatment cycle,and on day 1 of each subsequent cycle).The anticipated time on study treatment is until disease progression, and the target sample size is <100 individuals.

Enrollment

88 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

adult patients, >=18 years of age;
breast cancer with measurable locally recurrent or metastatic lesions;
candidate for chemotherapy;
HER2-positive disease;
ECOG PS of <=2.

Exclusion criteria

previous anticancer therapy for metastatic breast cancer;
previous radiotherapy for metastatic breast cancer (except for adjuvant radiotherapy >=6 months before enrollment);
chronic daily treatment with corticosteroids (>=10mg/day), aspirin (>325 mg/day) or clopidogrel (>75mg/day);
other primary tumor within last 5 years, except for adequately treated cervical cancer in situ, squamous or basal cell skin cancer;
uncontrolled hypertension or significant cardiovascular disease.