Anastrozole With or Without Fulvestrant as First-Line Therapy in Treating Postmenopausal Women With Metastatic Breast Cancer - Full Text View

Sponsors and Collaborators:	Southwest Oncology Group National Cancer Institute (NCI) National Cancer Institute of Canada
Information provided by:	National Cancer Institute (NCI)
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:	NCT00075764

Purpose

RATIONALE: Estrogen can stimulate the growth of breast cancer cells. Hormone therapy using drugs such as anastrozole and fulvestrant may fight breast cancer by blocking the use of estrogen. It is not yet known whether anastrozole is more effective with or without fulvestrant in treating breast cancer.

PURPOSE: This randomized phase III trial is studying giving anastrozole together with fulvestrant to see how well it works compared to anastrozole alone as first-line therapy in treating postmenopausal women with metastatic breast cancer.

Condition	Intervention	Phase
Breast Cancer	Drug: anastrozole Drug: fulvestrant	Phase III

Genetics Home Reference related topics: breast cancer

MedlinePlus related topics: Breast Cancer Cancer

Drug Information available for: Anastrozole Ici 182780

U.S. FDA Resources

Study Type:	Interventional
Study Design:	Treatment, Randomized, Active Control
Official Title:	Phase III Randomized Trial of Anastrozole Versus Anastrozole and Fulvestrant as First Line Therapy for Post Menopausal Women With Metastatic Breast Cancer

Further study details as provided by National Cancer Institute (NCI):

Primary Outcome Measures:

Time to tumor progression [ Designated as safety issue: No ]

Secondary Outcome Measures:

Clinical response rates [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
Overall survival [ Designated as safety issue: No ]

Estimated Enrollment:	690
Study Start Date:	April 2004
Estimated Primary Completion Date:	June 2009 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)

Arms	Assigned Interventions
Arm I: Active Comparator Patients receive oral anastrozole once daily on days 1-28.	Drug: anastrozole Given orally
Arm II: Experimental Patients receive oral anastrozole as in arm I. Patients also receive fulvestrant intramuscularly on days 1, 14, and 28 during course 1 and then on day 28 of the subsequent courses.	Drug: anastrozole Given orally Drug: fulvestrant Given intramuscularly

Detailed Description:

OBJECTIVES:

Compare the time to tumor progression in postmenopausal women with metastatic breast cancer treated with anastrozole with or without fulvestrant as first-line therapy.
Compare the clinical benefit (complete or partial response, confirmed or unconfirmed, or stable disease ≥ 24 weeks) and overall survival of patients treated with these regimens.
Compare adverse events in patients treated with these regimens.
Determine the prognostic significance of estrogen receptor positivity and HER2/neu status in patients treated with these regimens.
Determine parameters of estrogen and clinical pharmacology and estrogen levels in patients treated with these regimens.
Compare anastrozole plasma levels at 8, 16, and 24 weeks in patients treated with these regimens.
Compare estradiol serum levels at 8, 16, and 24 weeks in patients treated with these regimens.

OUTLINE: This is a randomized, multicenter study. Patients are stratified according to prior adjuvant tamoxifen therapy (yes vs no). Patients are randomized to 1 of 2 treatment arms.

Arm I: Patients receive oral anastrozole once daily on days 1-28.
Arm II: Patients receive oral anastrozole as in arm I. Patients also receive fulvestrant intramuscularly on days 1, 14, and 28 during course 1 and then on day 28 of the subsequent courses.

In both arms, courses repeat every 28 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.

Patients are followed for up to 4 years.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 690 patients (345 per treatment arm) will be accrued for this study within 3 years.

Eligibility

Genders Eligible for Study:	Female
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:	No

Criteria

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

Histologically confirmed breast cancer meeting 1 of the following criteria:
- Metastatic disease (M1)
- Multiple sites of new disease that is clinically obvious metastatic disease (e.g., multiple sites of new osseous disease)
Measurable or nonmeasurable disease
No known brain or CNS metastases
Hormone receptor status:
- Estrogen-receptor positive* AND/OR
- Progesterone-receptor positive* NOTE: *Positivity defined as estrogen binding of > 10 fmol/mg cytosol protein by ligand binding assay or positive by immunohistochemistry

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

Age

Not specified

Sex

Female

Menopausal status

Postmenopausal, as defined by 1 of the following:
- Prior bilateral oophorectomy
- More than 12 months since last menstrual period with no prior hysterectomy
- At least 55 years of age with prior hysterectomy
- Under 55 years of age with a prior hysterectomy without oophorectomy and with estradiol and follicle-stimulating hormone levels consistent with menopause

Performance status

Zubrod 0-2

Life expectancy

Not specified

Hematopoietic

No bleeding diathesis (e.g., disseminated intravascular coagulation or clotting factor deficiency)

Hepatic

INR ≤ 1.6

Renal

Not specified

Other

HIV negative
No other malignancy within the past 5 years except adequately treated basal cell or squamous cell skin cancer, carcinoma in situ of the cervix, or adequately treated stage I or II cancer currently in complete remission

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

Biologic therapy

No prior immunotherapy for recurrent or metastatic disease

Chemotherapy

No prior chemotherapy for recurrent or metastatic disease
More than 12 months since prior adjuvant or neoadjuvant chemotherapy
No concurrent chemotherapy for malignancy

Endocrine therapy

Prior adjuvant hormonal therapy allowed
At least 12 months since prior adjuvant luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH) analogues
- Menstrual periods must not have resumed since LHRH therapy
More than 12 months since prior adjuvant or neoadjuvant aromatase inhibitors (e.g., anastrozole, letrozole, or exemestane)
More than 12 months since prior fulvestrant
No prior hormonal therapy for recurrent or metastatic disease
No other concurrent hormonal therapy for malignancy
No concurrent hormone replacement therapy

Radiotherapy

Not specified

Surgery

Not specified

Other

No long-term anticoagulant therapy (except antiplatelet therapy)

Contacts and Locations

Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00075764

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Sponsors and Collaborators

Southwest Oncology Group

National Cancer Institute (NCI)

National Cancer Institute of Canada

Investigators

Investigator:	Rita S. Mehta, MD	Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
Study Chair:	Theodore A. Vandenberg, MD	London Regional Cancer Program at London Health Sciences Centre

More Information

Clinical trial summary from the National Cancer Institute's PDQ® database This link exits the ClinicalTrials.gov site

Featured trial article This link exits the ClinicalTrials.gov site

Study ID Numbers:	CDR0000349337, SWOG-S0226, CAN-NCIC-MAC7
Study First Received:	January 9, 2004
Last Updated:	January 15, 2009
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:	NCT00075764
Health Authority:	Unspecified

Keywords provided by National Cancer Institute (NCI):

stage IV breast cancer
recurrent breast cancer

Study placed in the following topic categories:

Anastrozole
Skin Diseases
Fulvestrant
Breast Neoplasms

Menopause
Breast Diseases
Recurrence

Additional relevant MeSH terms:

Estrogen Antagonists
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Antineoplastic Agents, Hormonal
Antineoplastic Agents
Hormone Antagonists
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Hormones, Hormone Substitutes, and Hormone Antagonists

Enzyme Inhibitors
Pharmacologic Actions
Estrogen Receptor Modulators
Neoplasms
Neoplasms by Site
Therapeutic Uses
Aromatase Inhibitors

ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on January 16, 2009