Efficacy and Safety Study of ABP 980 Compared With Trastuzumab in Women With HER2-positive Early Breast Cancer (Lilac)

Amgen

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 3

Conditions: Breast Cancer

Treatments: Drug: Paclitaxel; Drug: Trastuzumab; Drug: ABP 980; Procedure: Lumpectomy or Mastectomy with Sentinel Node or Axillary Node Dissection

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Industry

Identifiers

NCT01901146

2012-004319-29 (EudraCT Number)

20120283

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this research study is to compare the effectiveness and safety of ABP 980 against trastuzumab in women with human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-positive early breast cancer.

Enrollment: 725 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Females ≥ 18 years of age
• Histologically confirmed invasive breast cancer
• Planning for surgical resection of breast tumor and sentinel node or axillary lymph node resection
• Planning neoadjuvant chemotherapy
• HER2 positive disease
• Measurable disease in the breast after diagnostic biopsy, defined as longest diameter ≥ 2.0 cm
• Known estrogen receptor (ER) and progesterone receptor (PR) hormone receptor status at study entry
• Normal bone marrow function
• Normal hepatic function
• Normal renal function
• Subjects must sign an Institutional Review Board/Ethics Committee (IRB/EC)-approved informed consent form before any study specific procedures

Inclusion Criteria for Randomization:

• Left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) of ≥55% by 2D echocardiogram
• Complete all 4 cycles of run-in chemotherapy

Exclusion criteria

• Bilateral breast cancer
• Presence of known metastases
• Received prior treatment, including chemotherapy, biologic therapy, radiation or surgery with the exception of diagnostic biopsy for primary breast cancer
• Other concomitant active malignancy or history of malignancy in the past 5 years except treated basal cell carcinoma of the skin or carcinoma in situ of the cervix
• Pre-existing clinically significant (≥ grade 2) peripheral neuropathy
• Any history of documented or current congestive heart failure, current high-risk uncontrolled arrhythmias, current angina pectoris requiring a medicinal product, current clinically significant valvular disease, current evidence of transmural infarction on electrocardiogram (ECG), or current poorly controlled hypertension
• Severe dyspnea at rest requiring supplementary oxygen therapy
• History of positivity for hepatitis B surface antigen, hepatitis C virus, or human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
• Recent infection requiring a course of systemic anti-infectives that were completed ≤ 14 days before enrollment (with the exception of uncomplicated urinary tract infection)
• Woman of childbearing potential who is pregnant or is breast feeding
• Woman of childbearing potential who is not consenting to use highly effective methods of birth control (eg, true abstinence [periodic abstinence (eg calendar ovulation, symptothermal, post-ovulation methods) and withdrawal are not acceptable methods of contraception], sterilization, or other non-hormonal forms of contraception) during treatment and for at least 7 months after the last administration of the protocol specified treatment
• Currently receiving treatment in another investigational device or drug study, or less than 30 days since ending treatment on another investigational device or drug study
• Other investigational procedures while participating in this study are excluded
• Subject has known sensitivity to any of the products to be administered during the study, including mammalian cell derived drug products, trastuzumab, murine proteins, or to any of the excipients
• Subject previously has enrolled and/or has been randomized in this study
• Subject likely to not be available to complete all protocol required study visits or procedures
• History or evidence of any other clinically significant disorder, condition or disease (with the exception of those outlined above) that, in the opinion of the Investigator or Amgen physician, if consulted, would pose a risk to subject safety or interfere with the study evaluation, procedures or completion

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Quadruple Blind

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725 participants in 2 patient groups

ABP 980

Experimental group

Description:

Participants received ABP 980 at an initial dose of 8 mg/kg by intravenous (IV) infusion, then 6 mg/kg IV infusion every 3 weeks (Q3W) for 3 additional cycles plus 175 mg/m² paclitaxel Q3W for 4 cycles during the neoadjuvant phase. Surgery (lumpectomy or mastectomy with sentinel lymph node dissection or axillary lymph node dissection) was completed 3 to 7 weeks after the last dose of study drug in the neoadjuvant phase. After surgery (adjuvant phase) participants continued receiving 6 mg/kg ABP 980 IV Q3W for up to 1 year from the first day of study drug administration in the neoadjuvant phase.

Treatment:

Procedure: Lumpectomy or Mastectomy with Sentinel Node or Axillary Node Dissection

Drug: Paclitaxel

Drug: ABP 980

Trastuzumab

Active Comparator group

Description:

Participants received trastuzumab at an initial dose of 8 mg/kg IV infusion, then 6 mg/kg IV infusion Q3W for 3 additional cycles plus 175 mg/m² paclitaxel Q3W for 4 cycles during the neoadjuvant phase. Surgery (lumpectomy or mastectomy with sentinel lymph node dissection or axillary lymph node dissection) was completed 3 to 7 weeks after the last dose of study drug in the neoadjuvant phase. After surgery (adjuvant phase) participants were re-randomized to either continue receiving 6 mg/kg trastuzumab IV Q3W or transition to 6 mg/kg ABP 980 IV Q3W for up to 1 year from the first day of study drug administration in the neoadjuvant phase.

Treatment:

Procedure: Lumpectomy or Mastectomy with Sentinel Node or Axillary Node Dissection

Drug: Paclitaxel

Drug: Trastuzumab