Study of Efficacy and Safety of LEE011 in Men and Postmenopausal Women With Advanced Breast Cancer. (MONALEESA-3)
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02422615 |
Recruitment Status :
Completed
First Posted : April 21, 2015
Results First Posted : September 19, 2018
Last Update Posted : May 23, 2023
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Condition or disease | Intervention/treatment | Phase |
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Advanced Breast Cancer | Drug: Ribociclib Drug: fulvestrant Drug: Ribociclib placebo | Phase 3 |
Study Type : | Interventional (Clinical Trial) |
Actual Enrollment : | 726 participants |
Allocation: | Randomized |
Intervention Model: | Parallel Assignment |
Masking: | Quadruple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor) |
Primary Purpose: | Treatment |
Official Title: | A Randomized Double-blind, Placebo-controlled Study of Ribociclib in Combination With Fulvestrant for the Treatment of Men and Postmenopausal Women With Hormone Receptor Positive, HER2-negative, Advanced Breast Cancer Who Have Received no or Only One Line of Prior Endocrine Treatment |
Actual Study Start Date : | June 9, 2015 |
Actual Primary Completion Date : | November 3, 2017 |
Actual Study Completion Date : | January 11, 2023 |

Arm | Intervention/treatment |
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Experimental: Ribociclib + fulvestrant
Ribociclib 600mg daily oral (days 1 to 21 in a 28-day Cycle) in combination with fulvestrant 500mg i.m. injections every 28 days (Cycle n Day 1) with 1 additional dose on Day 15 of Cycle 1
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Drug: Ribociclib
Ribociclib 600mg daily oral (days 1 to 21 in a 28-day Cycle)
Other Name: LEE011 Drug: fulvestrant Fulvestrant 500mg i.m. injections every 28 days (Cycle n Day 1) with 1 additional dose on Day 15 of Cycle 1
Other Name: Faslodex |
Placebo Comparator: Ribociclib placebo + fulvestrant
Ribociclib placebo 600mg daily oral (days 1 to 21 in a 28-day Cycle) in combination with fulvestrant 500mg i.m. injections every 28 days (Cycle n Day 1) with 1 additional dose on Day 15 of Cycle 1
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Drug: fulvestrant
Fulvestrant 500mg i.m. injections every 28 days (Cycle n Day 1) with 1 additional dose on Day 15 of Cycle 1
Other Name: Faslodex Drug: Ribociclib placebo Ribociclib placebo 600mg daily oral (days 1 to 21 in a 28-day Cycle)
Other Name: LEE011 placebo |
- Progression Free Survival (PFS) Per Investigator Assessment [ Time Frame: Up to approximately 26 months ]The primary endpoint of the study is PFS, defined as the time from the date of randomization to the date of the first documented progression or death due to any cause. PFS will be assessed via a local radiology assessment according to RECIST 1.1
- Overall Survival (OS) [ Time Frame: Up to approximately 58 months ]Time from date of randomization to the date of death from any cause.
- Progression Free Survival (PFS) Per Blinded Independent Review Committee (BICR) [ Time Frame: Up to approximately 26 months ]The primary endpoint of the study is PFS, defined as the time from the date of randomization to the date of the first documented progression or death due to any cause. PFS will be assessed via a BICR according to RECIST 1.1
- Overall Response Rate (ORR) [ Time Frame: Up to approximately 26 months ]Overall response rate (ORR) is defined as the proportion of patients with the best overall response of complete response (CR) or partial response (PR) according to RECIST 1.1.
- Time to Definitive Deterioration of ECOG Performance Status in One Category of the Score [ Time Frame: Up to approximately 26 months ]Time to definitive deterioration of ECOG performance status in one category of score is defined as the time from the date of randomization to the date of event, which is defined as at least one score lower than the baseline.
- Safety and Tolerability of LEE011 [ Time Frame: Up to approximately 26 months ]Safety will be determined by type, frequency and severity of adverse events per CTCAE version 4.03 and type, frequency and severity of laboratory toxicities per CTCAE version 4.03.
- Time to Definitive 10% Deterioration in the Global Health Status/Quality of Life (QOL) Scale Score of the EORTC QLQ-C30 [ Time Frame: Up to approximately 26 months ]The time to definitive 10% deterioration is defined as the time from the date of randomization to the date of event, which is defined as at least 10% relative to baseline worsening of the corresponding scale score (without further improvement above the threshold) or death due to any cause.
- Change From Baseline in the Global Health Status/QoL Scale Score of the EORTC QLQ-C30 [ Time Frame: Up to approximately 26 months ]Change from baseline in the domain scores, health states, overall health status, and index values at the time of each assessment will be summarized.
- Clinical Benefit Rate (CBR) [ Time Frame: Up to approximately 26 months ]Clinical benefit rate (CBR), defined as the proportion of patients with a best overall response of complete response (CR) or partial response (PR) or stable disease (SD) lasting 24 weeks or longer as defined in RECIST 1.1
- Time to Response (TTR) [ Time Frame: Up to approximately 26 months ]Time from randomization to the first documented and confirmed response (complete response or partial response) as defined by RECIST 1.1
- Duration of Response (DOR) [ Time Frame: Up to approximately 26 months ]Time from the first documented response (CR or PR) to the first documented progression or death due to underlying cancer as defined in RECIST 1.1

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Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patient is an adult male/female ≥ 18 years old at the time of informed consent and has signed informed consent before any trial related activities and according to local guidelines. Female patients must be postmenopausal.
- Patient has a histologically and/or cytologically confirmed diagnosis of estrogen-receptor positive and/or progesterone receptor positive breast cancer by local laboratory and has HER2-negative breast cancer.
- Patient must have either measurable disease by RECIST 1.1 or at least one predominantly lytic bone lesion.
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Patient has advanced (loco regionally recurrent not amenable to curative therapy, e.g. surgery and/or radiotherapy, or metastatic) breast cancer.
Patients may be:
- newly diagnosed advanced/metastatic breast cancer, treatment naïve
- relapsed with documented evidence of relapse more than 12 months from completion of (neo)adjuvant endocrine therapy with no treatment for advanced/metastatic disease
- relapsed with documented evidence of relapse on or within 12 months from completion of (neo)adjuvant endocrine therapy with no treatment for advanced/metastatic disease
- relapsed with documented evidence of relapse more than 12 months from completion of adjuvant endocrine therapy and then subsequently progressed with documented evidence of progression after one line of endocrine therapy (with either an antiestrogen or an aromatase inhibitor) for advanced/metastatic disease
- newly diagnosed advanced/metastatic breast cancer at diagnosis that progressed with documented evidence of progression after one line of endocrine therapy (with either an antiestrogen or an aromatase inhibitor)
- Patient has an Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status 0 or 1
- Patient has adequate bone marrow and organ function
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patient with symptomatic visceral disease or any disease burden that makes the patient ineligible for endocrine therapy per the investigator's best judgment.
- Patient has received prior treatment with chemotherapy (except for neoadjuvant/ adjuvant chemotherapy), fulvestrant or any CDK4/6 inhibitor.
- Patient with inflammatory breast cancer at screening .
- Patient with CNS involvement unless they are at least 4 weeks from prior therapy completion to starting the study treatment and have stable CNS tumor at the time of screening and not receiving steroids and/or enzyme inducing anti-epileptic medications for brain metastases
- Clinically significant, uncontrolled heart disease and/or cardiac repolarization abnormality
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Patient is currently receiving any of the following substances and cannot be discontinued 7 days prior to start the treatment:
- Known strong inducers or inhibitors of CYP3A4/5,
- That have a known risk to prolong the QT interval or induce Torsades de Pointes.
- Those have a narrow therapeutic window and are predominantly metabolized through CYP3A4/5.
- Herbal preparations/medications, dietary supplements.
Other Protocol-defined Inclusion/Exclusion may apply.

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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT02422615

Study Director: | Novartis Pharmaceuticals | Novartis Pharmaceuticals |
Documents provided by Novartis ( Novartis Pharmaceuticals ):
Responsible Party: | Novartis Pharmaceuticals |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT02422615 |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
CLEE011F2301 2015-000617-43 ( EudraCT Number ) |
First Posted: | April 21, 2015 Key Record Dates |
Results First Posted: | September 19, 2018 |
Last Update Posted: | May 23, 2023 |
Last Verified: | May 2023 |
Individual Participant Data (IPD) Sharing Statement: | |
Plan to Share IPD: | Yes |
Plan Description: | Novartis is committed to sharing with qualified external researchers, access to patient-level data and supporting clinical documents from eligible studies. These requests are reviewed and approved by an independent expert panel on the basis of scientific merit. All data provided is anonymized to respect the privacy of patients who have participated in the trial in line with applicable laws and regulations. This trial data is currently available according to the process described on www.clinicalstudydatarequest.com. |
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Drug Product: | Yes |
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Device Product: | No |
HR-positive HER2-negative Advanced breast cancer LEE011 ribociclib fulvestrant faslodex CDK CDK4 CDK6 CDK4/6 CDK4/6 inhibitor Phase III ER-positive PR-positive |
Postmenopausal Men Breast Neoplasms Breast Diseases Neoplasms Neoplasms by Site Antineoplastic Agents Antineoplastic Agents, Hormonal Estrogen Receptor Antagonists Hormone Antagonists Hormones, Hormone Substitutes, and Hormone Antagonists Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action Pharmacologic Actions Therapeutic Use |
Breast Neoplasms Neoplasms by Site Neoplasms Breast Diseases Skin Diseases Fulvestrant Antineoplastic Agents, Hormonal |
Antineoplastic Agents Estrogen Receptor Antagonists Estrogen Antagonists Hormone Antagonists Hormones, Hormone Substitutes, and Hormone Antagonists Physiological Effects of Drugs |