A Pilot Preoperative Trial of Ganetespib With Paclitaxel for Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02637375 |
Recruitment Status :
Withdrawn
(Study never opened (terminated as study drug no longer available))
First Posted : December 22, 2015
Last Update Posted : May 30, 2016
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Condition or disease | Intervention/treatment | Phase |
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Breast Cancer | Drug: Ganetespib Drug: Paclitaxel Drug: Doxorubicin Drug: Cyclophosphamide | Not Applicable |
STUDY OBJECTIVES
Primary:
• To determine tumor GR, AR, JAK and other Hsp90 client protein expression before and after two weeks of ganetespib monotherapy
Secondary:
- To determine the pathological Complete Response (pCR) rate associated with weekly treatment of ganetespib plus paclitaxel followed by the combination treatment of doxorubicin plus cyclophosphamide
- To characterize the toxicity of study treatment
Study Type : | Interventional (Clinical Trial) |
Actual Enrollment : | 0 participants |
Allocation: | N/A |
Intervention Model: | Single Group Assignment |
Masking: | None (Open Label) |
Primary Purpose: | Treatment |
Official Title: | A Pilot Preoperative Trial of Ganetespib With Paclitaxel for Triple-Negative Breast Cancer |
Study Start Date : | May 2016 |
Estimated Primary Completion Date : | December 2018 |
Estimated Study Completion Date : | December 2018 |

Arm | Intervention/treatment |
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Experimental: Therapy
Patients will receive ganetespib monotherapy for two weeks followed by twelve weeks of ganetespib/paclitaxel therapy followed by 4 bi-weekly doses of doxorubicin/cyclophosphamide therapy followed by surgery.
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Drug: Ganetespib Drug: Paclitaxel Drug: Doxorubicin Drug: Cyclophosphamide |
- Change in GR protein [ Time Frame: 2 weeks ]
- Pathological Complete Response (pCR) rate [ Time Frame: 6 month ]Defined as absence of invasive carcinoma in both the breast and axilla at the time of surgery
- Ganetespib toxicity [ Time Frame: 14 weeks ]Side effects related to Ganetespib as graded per Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) version 4

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Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | Female |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Invasive carcinoma of the breast
- ER negative and PR negative tumors defined as < 1% of tumor nuclei that are immunoreactive for ER and PR
- HER2 non-overexpressing status documented as:
- FISH ratio of less than 2.0, OR
- IHC staining of 0 or 1+
- No evidence of distant metastatic disease. Patients with regional lymph node involvement are eligible.
- >18 years old
- Female
- No prior treatment for the disease under study
- No prior treatment within 5 years for any other cancer including chemotherapy, surgery (except for diagnostic biopsy), radiotherapy, hormonal therapy, or investigational agents, unless curative treatment of non-melanoma skin-cancer or in-situ cancer
- Able to understand and sign an informed consent (or have a legal representative who is able to do so)
- Clinically or radiologically measureable disease in the breast after diagnostic biopsy, defined as longest diameter greater than or equal to 2cm
- Willing to undergo three mandatory core biopsies after diagnosis to obtain tissue for biologic expression profiling.
- An Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) Performance Status (PS) of 0 or 1
- Adequate bone marrow reserves as evidenced by:
- Leukocytes > 3,000/μL
- Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) > 1,500/μL without the use of hematopoietic growth factors,
- Platelet count > 100,000/μL, and
- Hemoglobin > 9 g/dL
- Adequate hepatic function as evidenced by:
- Serum total bilirubin within institutional normal limits
- Aspartate aminotransferase (AST), alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and alkaline phosphatase less than or equal to 2.5 × ULN
- Adequate renal function as evidenced by a serum creatinine within ULN or creatinine clearance > 60 mL/min/1.73 m2 for patients with creatinine levels above institutional normal
- Eligible for treatment with paclitaxel, doxorubicin and cyclophosphamide
- If of childbearing potential, are willing to abstain from sexual intercourse or to use an effective form of contraception (e.g., a double-barrier method) during the study and for 90 days following the last dose of ganetespib
Exclusion Criteria:
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• Patients may not be receiving any other investigational agents.
- Patients may not have a known hypersensitivity to any of the components of ganetespib
- Patients may not have a history of severe allergic reactions to paclitaxel or other drugs formulated in Cremaphor® EL.
- Patients with a QTc > 470 ms, a family history of long QT Syndrome, and those on medications known to cause Torsades de Pointes will be excluded from the study.
- Patients may not have an uncontrolled intercurrent illness including, but not limited to, ongoing or active infection, symptomatic congestive heart failure, unstable angina pectoris, cardiac arrhythmia, or psychiatric illness/social situations that would limit compliance with study requirements.
- Patients may not have New York Heart Association (NYHA) Class III or IV congestive heart failure or left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) < 50%.
- As patients with immune deficiency are at increased risk of lethal infections when treated with marrow-suppressive therapy, HIV-positive patients receiving combination anti-retroviral therapy are excluded from the study.
- Patients may not have a need for chronic systemic steroid therapy
- Patients may not be pregnant or breastfeeding

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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT02637375
Principal Investigator: | Rita Nanda, MD | University of Chicago |
Responsible Party: | University of Chicago |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT02637375 |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
IRB15-0848 |
First Posted: | December 22, 2015 Key Record Dates |
Last Update Posted: | May 30, 2016 |
Last Verified: | May 2016 |
triple-negative breast cancer |
Breast Neoplasms Triple Negative Breast Neoplasms Neoplasms by Site Neoplasms Breast Diseases Skin Diseases Paclitaxel Cyclophosphamide Doxorubicin Antineoplastic Agents, Phytogenic Antineoplastic Agents Tubulin Modulators Antimitotic Agents |
Mitosis Modulators Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action Immunosuppressive Agents Immunologic Factors Physiological Effects of Drugs Antirheumatic Agents Antineoplastic Agents, Alkylating Alkylating Agents Myeloablative Agonists Antibiotics, Antineoplastic Topoisomerase II Inhibitors Topoisomerase Inhibitors Enzyme Inhibitors |