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Advanced Breast CancerPhase 2ESPERONCT05530057

Eribulin With or Without Trastuzumab-biosimilar in Patients With HER2-overexpressed Recurrent or Stage IV Breast Cancer

A Phase 2 study testing Eribulin Mesylate + Samfenet (Trastruzumab-biosimilar) and Eribulin Mesylate in people with Advanced Breast Cancer, run by Seoul National University Hospital at 1 site in South Korea.

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Looking for participants now. Contact the study team or a site below to ask about taking part.

Sites and contacts
Official record
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Trial summary

Optimal salvage treatment for HER2-positive breast cancer after trastuzumab and T-DM1 failure still remains to be established. We would like to investigate the efficacy and safety of combination chemotherapy of eribulin and trastuzumab as salvage treatment for HER2-Positive breast cancer after exposure to trastuzumab… Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 years and older, women only
Conditions the study is for
Advanced Breast Cancer
What is being tested?
Eribulin Mesylate + Samfenet (Trastruzumab-biosimilar) and Eribulin Mesylate
Type of treatment
Injection or infusion
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
180 participants
Where
1 siteSouth Korea
Study dates
18 Feb 2020to 30 Jun 2028
Phase
Phase 2
Are there results?
Not yet: the study is under way

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

  • Adults ≥18 years old.
  • Pathologically documented breast cancer that:
  • is unresectable or metastatic
  • has confirmed HER2 positive expression (immunohistochemistry or FISH) as determined according to American Society of Clinical Oncology - College of American Pathologists guidelines evaluated at a central laboratory
  • was previously treated with trastuzumab, T-DM1 or T-Dxd, and taxane (whether in recurrent/metastatic setting or neoadjuvant/adjuvant setting).
  • Less than 4 prior lines of chemotherapy or HER2 targeted therapies for treatment in metastatic disease (<4 treatment regimens for recurrent/metastatic disease excluding adjuvant treatments)
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  • Documented radiologic progression (during or after most recent treatment or within 6 months after completing adjuvant therapy).
  • Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0, or 1
  • Male and female subjects of reproductive/childbearing potential must agree to use a highly effective form of contraception or avoid intercourse during and upon completion of the study and for at least 4.5 months after the last dose of study treatment.
  • Adequate hematopoietic, renal and hepatic functions.
  • Adequate hematopoietic function: Absolute granulocyte count ≥1,500/mm3, platelet≥100,000/mm3, hemoglobin≥10g/mm3
  • Adequate hepatic function: total bilirubin ≤2.0mg/dL, AST/ALT ≤2 x UNL, alkaline phosphatase ≤2.5 x UNL, in case with bone metastases alkaline phosphatase ≤5 x UNL
  • Adequate renal function: Serum creatinine ≤1.5mg/dL
  • a left ventricular ejection fraction of 50% or more (determined by echocardiography or multiple-gated acquisition [MUGA(Multigated Blood Pool Scan)] scanning)
  • CNS(central nervous system) metastasis is permitted if asymptomatic or controlled with minimal steroid requirement and is documented to be non-progressing at study entry.
  • Negative result for urine or serum pregnancy tests within the screening period in premenopausal patients
  • Ability to understand and comply with protocol during study period
  • Patients should sign a written informed consent before study entry

Who cannot join

  • Prior treatment with eribulin
  • Uncontrolled or significant cardiovascular disease
  • History of documented congestive heart failure (CHF) or systolic dysfunction (LVEF <50%)
  • High-risk uncontrolled arrhythmias (ventricular tachycardia, high-grade Atrioventricular-block, supraventricular arrhythmias, prolonged QTc(corrected QT interval) which are not adequately rate-controlled)
  • Angina pectoris requiring antianginal medication
  • Clinically significant valvular heart disease
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  • Evidence of transmural infarction on ECG
  • Poorly controlled hypertension (e.g. systolic >180mm Hg or diastolic >100mm Hg)
  • Pregnant or lactating women or women of childbearing potential, including women whose last menstrual period was ,12 months ago (unless surgically sterile) who are unable or unwilling to use adequate contraceptive measures during the study treatment period.
  • Patients who have history of cancer other than in situ uterine cervix cancer or nonmelanotic skin cancer and thyroid cancer. For other types of cancer, patients could be included if there is no evidence of disease for more than 2 years.
  • Patients with GI tract disease resulting in an inability to take oral medication, malabsorption syndrome, a requirement for IV alimentation, prior surgical procedures affecting absorption, uncontrolled GI disease (e.g., Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis)
  • Subjects who have current active hepatic or biliary disease (with exception of patients with Gilbert's syndrome, asymptomatic gallstones, liver metastases or stable chronic liver disease per investigator assessment)
  • Concurrent disease or serious medical disorder, for example, active or uncontrolled infection, interstitial lung disease (ILD) or any psychiatric condition prohibiting understanding or rendering of informed consent.
  • Patients who have a known immediate or delayed hypersensitivity reaction or idiosyncrasy to drugs chemically related to any of the study agents or their excipients.

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country. Contact the study team or a site near you to ask about taking part.

Seock-Ah Im, MD,PhD contact

82-2-2072-0850

moisa@snu.ac.kr

Kyunghun Lee, MD,PhD contact

82-2-2072-0795

South Korea1 site, 1 recruiting
  • Seoul National University Hospital

    Seoul

    Yuri Park, RN, 82-0-2072-0795

    Seock-Ah Im, MD,PhD

    Recruiting

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About this study

Official title: Randomized, Open Label, Multi-Center, Phase II Trial of Eribulin With or Without SB3 (Trastuzumab-biosimilar) in Patients With HER2-overexpressed Recurrent or Stage IV Breast Cancer Who Have Received at Least 2 Prior HER2-directed Regimens

Optimal salvage treatment for HER2-positive breast cancer after trastuzumab and T-DM1 failure still remains to be established. We would like to investigate the efficacy and safety of combination chemotherapy of eribulin and trastuzumab as salvage treatment for HER2-Positive breast cancer after exposure to trastuzumab and T-DM1

Read the detailed description

HER2-targeted therapy is the mainstay therapeutic option for the treatment of HER2 positive breast cancer patients. Even after progression on HER2-targeted therapy, HER2 remains an effective therapeutic target. In a phase III randomized clinical trial, Lapatinib plus capecitabine showed superior outcome compared to capecitabine alone in HER2 positive breast cancer patients who has progressed after trastuzumab-based therapy Moreover, ado-trastuzumab emtansine (T-DM1) showed improved progression free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) in HER2-positive advanced breast cancer patients previously treated with trastuzumab and a taxane.

Not only switching to a different HER2-targeted agent, but rechallenge of trastuzumab has also shown efficacy in trastuzumab failed HER2-positive breast cancer patients. In HER2-positive breast cancer patients who failed trastuzumab and lapatinib, rechallenge of trastuzumab in combination with conventional chemotherapy showed response rate of 31%, PFS of 4.9 months, and OS of 19.4 months.

Eribulin mesylate is a non-taxane inhibitor of microtubule which shows efficacy in HER2-positive breast cancer. The efficacy of eribulin and trastuzumab combination chemotherapy as first line palliative chemotherapy in HER2-positive breast cancer was identified in a phase II trial. Eribulin plus trastuzumab was an effective regimen which showed response rate of 71.2% and PFS of 11.6 months.

Currently, the first line regimen for HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer is combination therapy of pertuzumab, trastuzumab, and docetaxel as a result of the CELOPARTRA trial . After failure on pertuzumab and trastuzumab based combination chemotherapy, T-DM1 is frequently used as a 2nd line therapy. Optimal salvage treatment for HER2-positive breast cancer after trastuzumab and T-DM1 failure still remains to be established. We would like to investigate the efficacy and safety of combination chemotherapy of eribulin and trastuzumab as salvage treatment for HER2-Positive breast cancer after exposure to trastuzumab and T-DM1.

Being tested
Eribulin Mesylate + Samfenet (Trastruzumab-biosimilar), Eribulin Mesylate

What participants receive

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

  • Eribulin Mesylate + Samfenet (Trastruzumab-biosimilar)Drug

    • Patients will receive eribulin mesylate 1.4 mg/m2 administered I.V. with infusion over 2 to 5 minutes on days 1 and 8 of each 21-day cycle and SB3 8 mg/kg I.V. over 90 minutes on day 1 of cycle 1 . Thereafter, SB3 6 mg/kg will be infused over 30 minutes on day 1 of each subsequent 21-day cycle until progression or unacceptable toxicity.
    • Dose reductions for eribulin, but not for SB3, is permitted.
    • Two dose reductions (1.1, 0.7 mg/m2) are allowed for eribulin before consideration of study treatment discontinuation. Eribulin could be continued as monotherapy if trastuzumab-similar was discontinued, and vice-versa.
  • Eribulin MesylateDrug

    • Patients will receive eribulin mesylate 1.4 mg/m2 administered I.V. with infusion over 2 to 5 minutes on days 1 and 8 of each 21-day cycle until progression or unacceptable toxicity.
    • Two dose reductions (1.1, 0.7 mg/m2) are allowed before consideration of study treatment discontinuation.
Study groups in NCT05530057
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
Eribulin + SB3Experimental- Patients will receive eribulin mesylate 1.4 mg/m2 administered I.V. with infusion over 2 to 5 minutes on days 1 and 8 of each 21-day cycle and SB3 8 mg/kg I.V. over 90 minutes on day 1 of cycle 1 . Thereafter, SB3 6 mg/kg will be infused over 30 minutes on day 1 of each subsequent 21-day cycle until progression or unacceptable toxicity.
Receives: Drug: Eribulin Mesylate + Samfenet (Trastruzumab-biosimilar)
Eribulin monotherapyActive comparator- Patients will receive eribulin mesylate 1.4 mg/m2 administered I.V. with infusion over 2 to 5 minutes on days 1 and 8 of each 21-day cycle until progression or unacceptable toxicity.
Receives: Drug: Eribulin Mesylate

What is being measured

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

  1. Primary Efficacy Endpoint(PFS)

    PFS is defined as the time from randomization to first documented disease progression as determined by the investigator using RECIST 1.1 or death from any cause, whichever occurs earlier.

    Measured: First day of study treatment to the date of disease progression or death due to any cause, whichever came first, assessed up to 2 years

Secondary outcomes (5)
  1. Objective response rate (ORR)

    Objective response, defined as a CR or PR, will be determined by investigator tumor assessment using RECIST 1.1. Patients without a post-baseline tumor assessment will be considered non-responders.

    Measured: Enrollment to end of treatment up to 2 years

  2. Duration of objective response (DOR)

    DOR is defined as the time from first occurrence of a documented objective response (PR or CR) to disease progression, as determined by investigator tumor assessment using RECIST 1.1, or death from any cause, whichever occurs first

    Measured: Enrollment to end of treatment up to 2 years

  3. Clinical benefit rate (CBR)

    Clinical benefit rate, defined as having received CR or PR of any duration or stable disease (SD) ≥ 4 months per RECIST v1.1. Patients without a post-baseline tumor assessment will be considered non-responders

    Measured: Enrollment to end of treatment up to 2 years

  4. Overall survival (OS)

    OS is defined as the time from randomization to death from any cause. Patients who are alive as of the data cut-off date of the analysis will be censored at the last known date they were alive

    Measured: First day of study treatment to the date of death due to any cause, assessed up to 2 years

  5. Safety profile (Treatment-related adverse events as assessed by CTCAE v4.0)

    Number of participants with treatment-related adverse events will be assessed

    Measured: First day of study treatment to end of treatment, assessed up to 2 years

Timeline

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

  1. First posted7 Sep 2022
  2. Study start18 Feb 2020
  3. Primary completion30 Jun 2028 (estimated)
  4. Study completion30 Jun 2028 (estimated)

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 2
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomised
Intervention model
Parallel groups
Model description
Arm A (Eribulin + SB3) Arm B (Eribulin monotherapy)
Masking
None (open label)
Enrolment
180 participants (estimated)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT05530057
Sponsor's protocol ID
H-1905-141-1035
Acronym
ESPERO
Status last verified
Dec 2024
First submitted
1 Sep 2022
Last updated
20 Nov 2025
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
Individual data sharing
No

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A Phase 2 study testing Eribulin Mesylate + Samfenet (Trastruzumab-biosimilar) and Eribulin Mesylate in people with Advanced Breast Cancer, run by Seoul National University Hospital at 1 site in South Korea.

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 18 inclusion and 14 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: looking for participants now, as of the sponsor's last update on 20 Nov 2025. 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 South Korea. 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 2 studies give the treatment to a larger group to see whether it has the intended effect and to keep checking safety.

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

Are results available for this study?

This study is still under way. Results are not available in the source record yet.

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

Contact Seock-Ah Im, MD,PhD (82-2-2072-0850, moisa@snu.ac.kr), or a site near the patient. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Primary Efficacy Endpoint(PFS) (time frame: First day of study treatment to the date of disease progression or death due to any cause, whichever came first, assessed up to 2 years). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?
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 20 Nov 2025.

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