Official Title
Genomics Guided Targeted Post-neoadjuvant Therapy in Patients With Early Breast Cancer - a Multicenter, Open-label, Umbrella Phase-II Study - COGNITION-GUIDE
Brief Title
Genomics Guided Targeted Post-neoadjuvant Therapy in Patients With Early Breast Cancer (COGNITION-GUIDE)
Protocol ID
NCT05332561
Lead Sponsor
German Cancer Research Center
Brief Summary
In early breast cancer (eBC), pathological complete response (pCR) after neoadjuvant
therapy acts as surrogate marker for metastasis and overall survival. Therapy
intensification by adding an adjuvant therapy line (post-neoadjuvant treatment)
substantially lowers the risk of relapse in high-risk breast cancer patients with
residual disease after neoadjuvant treatment (non-pCR). While this approach was
exemplified in two phase III trials without biomarker-stratification (CREATE-X,
KATHERINE), even higher efficiency might be achieved by individualized genomic-guided
post-neoadjuvant therapies.
Within the seven-arm umbrella phase-II clinical trial COGNITION-GUIDE, we aim to deliver
molecularly-tailored cancer care by implementing an additional response- and
genomics-guided post-neoadjuvant therapy after finishing the guideline-compliant
post-neoadjuvant treatment in high-risk breast cancer patients with residual cancer
burden after neoadjuvant therapy to reduce the substantial risk of local and distant
relapse.
The trial evaluates not a single drug but rather a general strategy of precision oncology
in the curative setting and provides the basis for future confirmatory biomarker-driven
trials.
Allocation to the therapy-arms is conducted by in depth molecular characterization of
tumors within the COGNITION registry program.
The study aims to show an overall benefit of the precision medicine approach in high-risk
eBC patients and to allow for secondary exploratory evaluation of each study-arm.
The primary endpoint of the study is invasive Disease-Free Survival (IDFS) after 4 years
measured from surgery to local or distant relapse or death. The sample size of the entire
trial is 240 eligible patients.
Detailed Description
In early breast cancer (eBC), pathological complete response (pCR) after neoadjuvant
therapy acts as surrogate marker for metastasis and overall survival.
Therapy intensification by adding an adjuvant therapy line (post-neoadjuvant treatment)
substantially lowers the risk of relapse in high-risk breast cancer patients with
residual disease after neoadjuvant treatment (non-pCR).
While this approach was exemplified in two phase III trials without
biomarker-stratification (CREATE-X, KATHERINE), even higher efficiency might be achieved
by individualized genomic-guided post-neoadjuvant therapies.
To date, prospective whole genomic and transcriptomic sequencing in the framework of
precision oncology concepts is predominantly conducted in advanced-stage cancer, limiting
the overall benefit mainly to prolongation of progression-free survival rather than cure.
In contrast, the implementation of precision oncology in an early disease stage may
empower targeted intervention based on high throughput sequencing at a time point with
low tumor burden and limited clonal complexity, harbouring the prospect to substantially
improve cure rates by prohibition of incurable metastasis.
Whole-genome (WGS), whole exome (WES), gene panel and transcriptome sequencing in the
molecular diagnostic registry platform COGNITION (neoadjuvant-treated eBC patients)
revealed relevant diagnostic information on molecular-druggable alterations in a
substantial proportion of patients in different molecular pathways (e.g.
phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K)/ serine/threonine kinase (AKT), Mitogen-activated
protein kinase (MAPK), apoptosis, DNA-repair, immune escape etc.).
Within the seven-arm umbrella phase-II clinical trial COGNITION-GUIDE, we aim to deliver
molecularly-tailored cancer care by implementing an additional response- and
genomics-guided post-neoadjuvant therapy after finishing the guideline-compliant
post-neoadjuvant treatment in high-risk breast cancer patients with residual cancer
burden after neoadjuvant therapy to reduce the substantial risk of local and distant
relapse.
The trial evaluates not a single drug but rather a general strategy of precision oncology
in the curative setting and provides the basis for future confirmatory biomarker-driven
trials.
Eligible patients are identified considering pCR-status and clinical stage estrogen
receptor status grade (CPS-EG)-score following surgery after neoadjuvant therapy.
Allocation to the therapy-arms is conducted by in depth molecular characterization of
tumors within the COGNITION registry program.
Recruitment of adequate patient numbers in well-defined molecular subgroups is achieved
in a multicenter approach.
The study aims to show an overall benefit of the precision medicine approach in high-risk
eBC patients and to allow for secondary exploratory evaluation of each study-arm.
The primary endpoint of the study is invasive Disease-Free Survival (IDFS) after 4 years
measured from surgery to local or distant relapse or death.
The sample size of the entire trial is 240 eligible patients.
Study Period
Enrollment Count
240 participants
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
1. Provision of written informed consent
2. Female and male patients with non-metastatic early (stage I-III) breast cancer aged
≥ 18 years
3. Conducted neoadjuvant chemotherapy and surgery as well as conducted standard
post-neoadjuvant treatment +/- radiotherapy (standard according to German guidelines
except Abemaciclib and Olaparib)
4. For patients with initially triple negative (TNBC) or HER2-positive breast cancer:
• Non-pCR defined as other than ypT0/is ypN0
5. For patients with initially hormone receptor positive and HER2-negative breast
cancer: Non-pCR and CPS-EG score
- ≥ 3 and ypN0, or
- ≥ 2 and ypN+
6. ECOG Performance Status ≤ 1
7. Acute effects of any prior therapy resolved to baseline severity or National Cancer
Institute Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events version 5.0 (NCI CTCAE
v5.0) Grade ≤ 1 except for adverse effects not constituting a safety risk by
investigator judgement
8. Postmenopausal or evidence of non-childbearing status. For women of childbearing
potential negative urine pregnancy test at post-operative screening and baseline as
well as highly effective forms of contraception have to be in place thereafter
- Evidence of childbearing potential is defined as fertile, following menarche
and until becoming post-menopausal unless permanently sterile
- Postmenopausal or evidence of non-childbearing status is defined as:
- Amenorrhea for 1 year or more without an alternative medical cause
following cessation of exogenous hormonal treatments plus follicle
stimulating hormone (FSH) levels in the postmenopausal range in women not
using hormonal contraception or hormonal replacement therapy
- Chemotherapy-induced menopause
- Surgical sterilisation (bilateral oophorectomy, bilateral salpingectomy,
total hysterectomy or tubal ligation at least 6 weeks before IMP
treatment)
- Female patients with age ≥ 60 years
- A man is considered fertile after puberty unless permanently sterile by
bilateral orchidectomy
9. Female patients of childbearing potential and male patients with partners of
childbearing potential who are sexually active must agree to the use of two forms of
contraception in combination (male condom and one highly effective method). These
should be started immediately after signing the informed consent form and continued
throughout the period of study treatment plus a substance-depending time period (see
respective sub-protocol) for female patients and a substance-depending time period
for male patients. Details on contraception and pregnancy testing for male and
female patients (and if indicated their partners) under IMP treatment are described
within the respective sub-protocol
10. Ability of patient to understand and comply with the protocol for the duration of
the study, including treatment and scheduled visits and examinations
11. Adequate bone marrow, renal, and hepatic function defined by laboratory tests*
The biomarker-guided eligibility for the respective study arm is evaluated and determined
exclusively by the NCT molecular tumor board on the basis of results of the COGNITION
molecular diagnostic registry platform. Biomarkers that allow inclusion in the respective
arm are:
- Arm 1 (Atezolizumab, Immune Evasion ): PD-L1 positivity measure by IHC (≥1% on
immune cells within the tumor), MSI-high status (validated by PCR), TMB-H
(≥10mut/MB), CD274 amplification
- Arm 2 (Inavolisib, PI3K): Known/reported oncogenic mutation in PIK3Ca
- Arm 3 (Ipatasertib, AKT): Aberrations predicting increased PI3K-AKT pathway activity
except PI3K-mutations, HR positive histology
- Arm 4 (Olaparib, PARP, DNA-Repair): Inactivating somatic or germline BRCA1/2
mutation including homozygous deletions, Inactivating germline PALB2 mutations
- Arm 5 (Sacituzumab Govitecan, TROP-2): Trop-2-overexpression (with IHC and except
known/reported homozygous polymorphism in UGT1A1*28)
- Arm 6 (Trastuzumab / Pertuzumab, ERBBB): HER2 exon-20 insertion, Activating
HER2-mutation
Exclusion Criteria:
1. Other malignancy within the last 5 years except: adequately treated non-melanoma
skin cancer, curatively treated in situ cancer of the cervix, ductal carcinoma in
situ (DCIS), Stage 1 grade 1 endometrial carcinoma, or other solid tumours including
lymphomas (without bone marrow involvement) curatively treated with no evidence of
disease for ≥ 5 year
2. Concurrent severe, uncontrolled systemic disease that would place patient at undue
risk or interfere with planned treatment
3. Concurrent participation or previous treatment within 30 days in another
interventional clinical trial
4. Persistent toxicity (≥ Grade 2 according to NCI CTCAE v5.0 caused by previous cancer
therapy, excluding alopecia
5. Clinical signs of active infection (> Grade 2 according NCI CTCAE v5.0)
6. History of or newly diagnosed human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and
immunocompromised patients
7. Active Hepatitis A virus infection
8. Active hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, defined as having a positive hepatitis B
surface antigen (HBsAg) test. Patients with a past or resolved HBV infection,
defined as having a negative HBsAg test and a positive total hepatitis B core
antibody (HBcAb) test at screening, are eligible for the study if active HBV
infection is ruled out on the basis of HBV DNA viral load per local guidelines
9. Active hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, defined as having a positive HCV antibody
test at screening confirmed by a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) positive for HCV
RNA
10. Dementia or significant impairment of cognitive state
11. Epilepsy requiring pharmacologic treatment
12. Pregnancy and breast feeding
13. Inability to take oral medication and gastrointestinal disorders likely to interfere
with absorption of study medication
14. Major surgery (any invasive operative procedure in which a more extensive resection
is performed, e.g. a body cavity is entered, organs are removed, or normal anatomy
is altered) within four weeks before screening and baseline excluding breast-tumor
resection after neoadjuvant chemotherapy. Patients must have recovered from any
effects of any major surgery
15. Systemic chemotherapy or radiotherapy within four weeks or a longer period depending
on the characteristics of the agents used
16. Heart failure classified as New York Heart Association (NYHA) II/III/IV
17. Severe obstructive or restrictive ventilation disorder
18. Patients with clinically active tuberculosis
19. Any other disease, metabolic dysfunction, physical examination finding, or clinical
laboratory finding giving reasonable suspicion of a disease or condition that
contraindicates the use of an investigational drug
20. Is taking or requiring the continued use of any of the prohibited concomitant
medications listed in the respective subprotocols at baseline
21. Patients considered a poor medical risk due to a serious, uncontrolled medical
disorder or non-malignant systemic disease. Examples include, but are not limited
to, uncontrolled ventricular arrhythmia, recent (within 3 months) myocardial
infarction, unstable spinal cord compression or, superior vena cava syndrome.
Filters
Early-stage Breast Cancer
PHASE2
RECRUITING
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT