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Breast CancerPhase 3COMPETENCT02532400

Neoadjuvant Aromatase Inhibitor(AI) With Ovarian Suppression Versus Chemotherapy in Premenopausal Breast Cancer Patients

A Phase 3 study testing Neoadjuvant endocrine therapy and Neoadjuvant chemotherapy in people with Breast Cancer, run by Ruijin Hospital at 1 site in China.

Terminated

Stopped early. The study ended before it was planned to and will not resume.

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Trial summary

To compare the efficacy and safety of neoadjuvant aromatase inhibitor plus ovarian suppression with chemotherapy in premenopausal patients with hormone receptor-positive breast cancer. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 years and older, women only
Conditions the study is for
Breast Cancer
What is being tested?
Neoadjuvant endocrine therapy and Neoadjuvant chemotherapy
Type of treatment
Injection or infusion
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
21 participants
Where
1 siteChina
Study dates
Mar 2016to Mar 2019
Phase
Phase 3
Are there results?
None posted in the registry

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 18 years and older
  • Women only
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Adult, Older adult

Who may be able to join

  • Written informed consent
  • Women aged ≥ 18 years
  • Histologically confirmed invasive breast cancer
  • American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) stage: ⅡA-ⅢC, no evidence of metastasis
  • At least one measurable disease in breast and/or axilla
  • ER and/or progesterone receptor(PgR) positive(≥10% of the cells by IHC)
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  • HER2 negative(by IHC and/or FISH)
  • Premenopause status (estradiol in premenopausal range or with normal menstrual cycle in the past 6 months with no use of hormonal drugs)
  • Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group(ECOG)score 0-1, an estimated life expectancy of at least 12 months
  • Adequate bone marrow function: Leukocyte ≥ 3.0*109/L; Neutrophil ≥ 1.5*109/L; Hb ≥ 100g/L; Platelet(PLT) ≥ 80*109/L
  • Adequate liver, renal function and coagulation function: Alanine transaminase(ALT) and/or Aspartate transaminase(AST)≤ 1.5 upper normal limit(UNL), total bilirubin ≤upper normal limit, creatinine ≤ 110umol/L, Creatinine clearance > 60ml/min, blood urea nitrogen(BUN) ≤ 7.1mmol/L, activated partial thromboplastin time(APTT) ≤ 1.5 upper normal limit(UNL)
  • Women with child-bearing potential must have a negative pregnancy test (urine or serum) within 7 days of drug administration and agree to use an acceptable method of birth control to avoid pregnancy for the duration of the study
  • Serological records of hepatitis B virus(HBV)and hepatitis C virus(HCV) testing.

Who cannot join

  • Stage IV breast cancer
  • Prior systemic or loco-regional treatment of breast cancer
  • Any anti-neoplastic treatment within 28 days before the beginning of study
  • Known severe hypersensitivity to any drugs in this study
  • History of malignancy within 5 years except carcinoma in situ of cervix or skin basal cell carcinoma that had received adequate treatment
  • Peripheral neuropathy ≥ 2°, according to National Cancer Institute(NCI) Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events(CTCAE)(Version 4.0)
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  • Any cardiac or pulmonary dysfunction defined as following:
  • ≥ 3° symptomatic congestive heart failure (CHF) according to NCI CTCAE(Version 4.0) or ≥ 2° CHF according to New York Heart Association(NYHA)
  • Angina that needs anti-anginal drugs, advanced conduction abnormality or significant vascular disease
  • Uncontrolled high-risk arrhythmia: atrial tachycardia that silent heart rate >100/min, significant ventricular arrythmia or advanced atrioventricular block(2° type II atrioventricular or 3° atrioventricular block)
  • Poorly controlled hypertension (systolic BP > 180 mmHg or diastolic BP > 100 mmHg)
  • Transmural myocardial infarction in EKG
  • Long-term oxygen therapy
  • 8. Uncontrolled severe systemic disease(clinically significant cardiovascular disease,pulmonary disease or metabolic disease, wound healing disorder, ulcer, severe infection)
  • 9. Pregnant or breast feeding
  • 10. Major operation, obvious trauma within 28 days before randomization or planned major operation during the study
  • 11. Known active hepatic disease due to hepatitis B virus, hepatitis C virus, auto-immune liver disease or sclerosing cholangitis
  • 12. Known HIV infection
  • 13. Any reasons investigators consider that not suitable for the study

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country.

China1 site
  • Ruijin Hospital

    Shanghai, Shanghai Municipality, 200025

Other trials in China

About this study

Official title: Comparison of Neoadjuvant Aromatase Inhibitors With Ovarian Suppression Versus Chemotherapy in Premenopausal Patients With Hormone Receptor-positive Breast Cancer (COMPETE): a Randomized Phase 3 Trial

To compare the efficacy and safety of neoadjuvant aromatase inhibitor plus ovarian suppression with chemotherapy in premenopausal patients with hormone receptor-positive breast cancer.

Read the detailed description

Neoadjuvant therapy is nowadays the standard treatment for both early stage and locally advanced breast cancer, and exhibited similar benefit compared with adjuvant therapy in terms of disease free and overall survival. Patients achieved pathological complete response(pCR) after neoadjuvant chemotherapy have superior outcome compared with those with residual tumors in breast and/or axilla. pCR is now the most wildly accepted surrogate marker for long-term survival of patients, especially in those with triple negative or human epidermal growth factor receptor-2(HER2)-positive breast cancer. However, in luminal HER2-negative breast cancer, neoadjuvant chemotherapy is not as effective as in other subtypes of breast cancer, pCR is less noted and seems barely correlated to long-term survival benefit.

In postmenopausal patients with hormone receptor-positive breast cancer, neoadjuvant endocrine therapy of aromatase inhibitor achieved similar clinical response rate compared with neoadjuvant chemotherapy, and in premenopausal hormone receptor-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer patients, neoadjuvant aromatase inhibitor plus ovarian function suppression(OFS) has showed more pronounced efficacy than tamoxifen plus OFS.

In adjuvant setting, aromatase inhibitor combined with OFS in premenopausal patients with hormone receptor-positive breast cancer has demonstrated superior benefit in terms of disease free survival, and has been established as one of the routine options of adjuvant endocrine therapy. Notwithstanding the remarkable performance of combination of aromatase inhibitor and OFS in adjuvant therapy, the role of this treatment strategy in neoadjuvant setting has yet not been proved when compared with neoadjuvant chemotherapy.

The aim of this study is to prospectively compare the efficacy and safety of neoadjuvant aromatase inhibitor plus OFS with chemotherapy in premenopausal patients with hormone receptor-positive HER2-negative breast cancer.

Conditions
Breast Cancer
Being tested
Neoadjuvant endocrine therapy, Neoadjuvant chemotherapy
Keywords
Breast Neoplasms, Neoadjuvant Endocrine Therapy, Ovarian Function Suppression, Neoadjuvant chemotherapy
Medical subject headings
Breast Neoplasms

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • Neoadjuvant endocrine therapyDrug

    Also called Goserelin and AI

    Goserelin: 3.6mg, d1, hypodermic injection , q28d*7 plus exemestane: 25mg, po, qd*24w, or anastrozole: 1mg, po, qd*24w

  • Neoadjuvant chemotherapyDrug

    Also called TEC

    Docetaxel: 75mg/m2, d1, q3w*6, Epirubicin 75mg/m2, d1, q3w*6 and Cyclophosphamide: 500mg/m2, d1, q3w*6

Study groups in NCT02532400
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
Neoadjuvant endocrine therapyExperimentalSix months of exemestane or anastrozole plus goserelin.
Receives: Drug: Neoadjuvant endocrine therapy
Neoadjuvant chemotherapyActive comparatorSix cycles of docetaxel plus epirubicin and cyclophosphamide(TEC).
Receives: Drug: Neoadjuvant chemotherapy

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Overall response rate(ORR)

    Overall response rate(ORR) is defined as complete response rate plus partial response rate.

    Measured: up to 7 months

Secondary outcomes (6)
  1. Pathological complete response(pCR)

    Measured: up to 7 months

  2. Breast conserving surgery(BCS) rate

    Measured: up to 7 months

  3. Incidence of neutropenia fever

    Measured: participants will be followed during the six months of neoadjuvant therapy

  4. Incidence of hot flushes/flashes

    Measured: participants will be followed during the six months of neoadjuvant therapy

  5. Incidence of osteoporosis

    Measured: participants will be followed during the six months of neoadjuvant therapy

  6. Incidence of grade 3-4 adverse events

    Measured: participants will be followed during the six months of neoadjuvant therapy

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted25 Aug 2015 (estimated)
  2. Study startMar 2016
  3. Primary completionMar 2019
  4. Study completionMar 2019

Why it stopped: Hard to enroll expected number of eligible patients.

Resources

More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase 3
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomised
Intervention model
Parallel groups
Masking
None (open label)
Enrolment
21 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT02532400
Sponsor's protocol ID
RJBC1505
Acronym
COMPETE
Status last verified
Mar 2020
First submitted
17 Aug 2015
Last updated
11 Mar 2020
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
Yes

Publications

  • Coates AS, Winer EP, Goldhirsch A, Gelber RD, Gnant M, Piccart-Gebhart M, Thurlimann B, Senn HJ; Panel Members. Tailoring therapies--improving the management of early breast cancer: St Gallen International Expert Consensus on the Primary Therapy of Early Breast Cancer 2015. Ann Oncol. 2015 Aug;26(8):1533-46. doi: 10.1093/annonc/mdv221. Epub 2015 May 4.

    PubMed 25939896
  • Mauri D, Pavlidis N, Ioannidis JP. Neoadjuvant versus adjuvant systemic treatment in breast cancer: a meta-analysis. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2005 Feb 2;97(3):188-94. doi: 10.1093/jnci/dji021.

    PubMed 15687361
  • von Minckwitz G, Untch M, Blohmer JU, Costa SD, Eidtmann H, Fasching PA, Gerber B, Eiermann W, Hilfrich J, Huober J, Jackisch C, Kaufmann M, Konecny GE, Denkert C, Nekljudova V, Mehta K, Loibl S. Definition and impact of pathologic complete response on prognosis after neoadjuvant chemotherapy in various intrinsic breast cancer subtypes. J Clin Oncol. 2012 May 20;30(15):1796-804. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2011.38.8595. Epub 2012 Apr 16.

    PubMed 22508812
  • Cortazar P, Zhang L, Untch M, Mehta K, Costantino JP, Wolmark N, Bonnefoi H, Cameron D, Gianni L, Valagussa P, Swain SM, Prowell T, Loibl S, Wickerham DL, Bogaerts J, Baselga J, Perou C, Blumenthal G, Blohmer J, Mamounas EP, Bergh J, Semiglazov V, Justice R, Eidtmann H, Paik S, Piccart M, Sridhara R, Fasching PA, Slaets L, Tang S, Gerber B, Geyer CE Jr, Pazdur R, Ditsch N, Rastogi P, Eiermann W, von Minckwitz G. Pathological complete response and long-term clinical benefit in breast cancer: the CTNeoBC pooled analysis. Lancet. 2014 Jul 12;384(9938):164-72. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(13)62422-8. Epub 2014 Feb 14.

    PubMed 24529560
  • Semiglazov VF, Semiglazov VV, Dashyan GA, Ziltsova EK, Ivanov VG, Bozhok AA, Melnikova OA, Paltuev RM, Kletzel A, Berstein LM. Phase 2 randomized trial of primary endocrine therapy versus chemotherapy in postmenopausal patients with estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer. Cancer. 2007 Jul 15;110(2):244-54. doi: 10.1002/cncr.22789.

    PubMed 17538978
  • Ellis MJ, Suman VJ, Hoog J, Lin L, Snider J, Prat A, Parker JS, Luo J, DeSchryver K, Allred DC, Esserman LJ, Unzeitig GW, Margenthaler J, Babiera GV, Marcom PK, Guenther JM, Watson MA, Leitch M, Hunt K, Olson JA. Randomized phase II neoadjuvant comparison between letrozole, anastrozole, and exemestane for postmenopausal women with estrogen receptor-rich stage 2 to 3 breast cancer: clinical and biomarker outcomes and predictive value of the baseline PAM50-based intrinsic subtype--ACOSOG Z1031. J Clin Oncol. 2011 Jun 10;29(17):2342-9. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2010.31.6950. Epub 2011 May 9.

    PubMed 21555689
  • Masuda N, Sagara Y, Kinoshita T, Iwata H, Nakamura S, Yanagita Y, Nishimura R, Iwase H, Kamigaki S, Takei H, Noguchi S. Neoadjuvant anastrozole versus tamoxifen in patients receiving goserelin for premenopausal breast cancer (STAGE): a double-blind, randomised phase 3 trial. Lancet Oncol. 2012 Apr;13(4):345-52. doi: 10.1016/S1470-2045(11)70373-4. Epub 2012 Jan 20.

    PubMed 22265697
  • Pagani O, Regan MM, Walley BA, Fleming GF, Colleoni M, Lang I, Gomez HL, Tondini C, Burstein HJ, Perez EA, Ciruelos E, Stearns V, Bonnefoi HR, Martino S, Geyer CE Jr, Pinotti G, Puglisi F, Crivellari D, Ruhstaller T, Winer EP, Rabaglio-Poretti M, Maibach R, Ruepp B, Giobbie-Hurder A, Price KN, Bernhard J, Luo W, Ribi K, Viale G, Coates AS, Gelber RD, Goldhirsch A, Francis PA; TEXT and SOFT Investigators; International Breast Cancer Study Group. Adjuvant exemestane with ovarian suppression in premenopausal breast cancer. N Engl J Med. 2014 Jul 10;371(2):107-18. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1404037. Epub 2014 Jun 1.

    PubMed 24881463
  • Francis PA, Regan MM, Fleming GF, Lang I, Ciruelos E, Bellet M, Bonnefoi HR, Climent MA, Da Prada GA, Burstein HJ, Martino S, Davidson NE, Geyer CE Jr, Walley BA, Coleman R, Kerbrat P, Buchholz S, Ingle JN, Winer EP, Rabaglio-Poretti M, Maibach R, Ruepp B, Giobbie-Hurder A, Price KN, Colleoni M, Viale G, Coates AS, Goldhirsch A, Gelber RD; SOFT Investigators; International Breast Cancer Study Group. Adjuvant ovarian suppression in premenopausal breast cancer. N Engl J Med. 2015 Jan 29;372(5):436-46. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1412379. Epub 2014 Dec 11.

    PubMed 25495490

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A Phase 3 study testing Neoadjuvant endocrine therapy and Neoadjuvant chemotherapy in people with Breast Cancer, run by Ruijin Hospital at 1 site in China.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 13 inclusion and 19 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: stopped early, as of the sponsor's last update on 11 Mar 2020. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 1 site in China. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

What does this phase mean?

Phase 3 studies compare the treatment with the current standard treatment or a placebo in a large group, to confirm how well it works and watch for side effects.

Not every study follows the same path, and some studies (observational studies, device studies) have no phase.

Are results available for this study?

The study was stopped early (reason given: Hard to enroll expected number of eligible patients.). Results are not available in the source record.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Overall response rate(ORR) (time frame: up to 7 months). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?

On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT02532400, which also lists 9 linked publications.

Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 11 Mar 2020.

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