Basic Trial Information
Trial Description
     Summary
     Eligibility Criteria
Trial Contact Information

Basic Trial Information

Phase Type Status Age Sponsor Protocol IDs Phase II Treatment Active 18 and over Pharmaceutical / Industry 1200.11 EUDRACT 2007-004805-80, NCT00431067

Trial Description

Summary

The primary objective of this trial is to explore the efficacy of BIBW 2992 in HER2 positive metasta tic breast cancer patients after failure of trastuzumab containing regimens.

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Male or female patients with confirmed diagnosis of Stage IIIB or IV HER2-pos itive metastatic breast cancer(HER2 2+ and FISH positive or HER2 3+).

2. Patients must have progressed following receipt of prior standard trastuzumab treatment or standard chemotherapy in conjunction with trastuzumab. Patients wi th visceral disease or rapid progression should not be included if they have not had previous chemotherapy in addition to trastuzumab. Patients who are intolerant to trastuzumab and who have received adequate chemotherapy and/or hormone therapy are eligible upon progression.

3. Age 18 years or older.

4. Life expectancy of at least four (4) months.

5. Written informed consent that is consistent with ICH-GCP guidelines.

6. Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG, R01-0787) performance Score 0, 1 or

2. 7. Patients should not have received treatment with chemotherapy or immune therapy within the last 4 weeks (2 weeks for trastuzumab). Patients should not have received treatment with hormone therapy within the last 2 weeks.

8. Patients must have recovered from any therapy-related toxicities from previou s chemo-, hormone-, immuno-, or radiotherapies to CTC less than or equal to Grade 1.

9. Patients must have recovered from previous surgery. 10. Patients must have measurable disease as defined by RECIST criteria.

Exclusion Criteria:

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Active infectious disease.

2. Gastrointestinal disorders that may interfere with the absorption of the stud y drug or chronic diarrhea.

3. Serious illness or concomitant non-oncological disease considered by the inve stigator to be incompatible with the protocol.

4. Patients with active/symptomatic brain metastases. Patients with a history o f treated brain metastases must have stable or normal MRI scan at screening and be at least three months post-radiation or surgery.

5. Cardiac left ventricular function with resting ejection fraction <50%.

6. Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) less than 1500 cells/mm3.

7. Platelet count less than 100 000 cells/mm3.

8. Bilirubin greater than 1.5 mg/dl (>26 micromol /L, SI unit equivalent).

9. Aspartate amino transferase (AST) or alanine amino transferase (ALT) greater than three times the upper limit of normal.

10. Serum creatinine greater than 1.5 mg/dl (>132 micromol/L, SI unit equival ent).

11. Women and men (and their partners) who are sexually active and unwilling to use a medically acceptable method of contraception.

12. Pregnancy or breast-feeding.

13. Treatment with other investigational drugs; chemotherapy, immunotherapy, rad iotherapy or hormone therapy (including LHRH agonists, or other hormones taken f or breast cancer), or participation in another clinical study within the past 4 weeks before start of therapy or concomitantly with this study. Treatment with b isphosphonates is allowed.

14. Prior treatment with an EGFR- or HER2 inhibiting drug (except trastuzumab).

15. Patients unable to comply with the protocol.

16. Active alcohol or drug abuse.

17. Patients with history of other malignancy (except for appropriately treated superficial basal cell skin cancer and surgically cured cervical cancer in situ) unless free of disease for at least 3 years.

Trial Contact Information

Trial Lead Organizations/Sponsors

Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Incorporated - Ridgefield

Boehringer Ingelheim

Study Chair

Boehringer Ingelheim Study Coordinator
		Email: clintriage@boehringer-ingelheim.com

U.S.A.
Arizona
	Scottsdale
	Boehringer Ingelheim Investigational Site
California
	Encinitas,
	Boehringer Ingelheim Investigational Site
	Santa Monica
	Boehringer Ingelheim Investigational Site
Florida
	Tampa
	Boehringer Ingelheim Investigational Site
Massachusetts
	Boston
	Boehringer Ingelheim Investigational Site
North Carolina
	Chapel Hill
	Boehringer Ingelheim Investigational Site
United Kingdom
	Bournemouth
	Boehringer Ingelheim Investigational Site
	Guildford
	Boehringer Ingelheim Investigational Site
	London
	Boehringer Ingelheim Investigational Site
	Plymouth
	Boehringer Ingelheim Investigational Site
	Poole
	Boehringer Ingelheim Investigational Site
	Truro
	Boehringer Ingelheim Investigational Site

Link to the current ClinicalTrials.gov record.
NLM Identifer NCT00431067
Information obtained from ClinicalTrials.gov on July 16, 2008