Neoadjuvant Study of Targeting ROS1 in Combination With Endocrine Therapy in Invasive Lobular Carcinoma of the Breast (ROSALINE)

Last updated: December 2, 2024
Sponsor: Jules Bordet Institute
Overall Status: Active - Not Recruiting

Phase

2

Condition

Carcinoma

Treatment

Entrectinib

Letrozole

Goserelin

Clinical Study ID

NCT04551495
IJB-LOB-2019
  • Ages > 18
  • Female

Study Summary

Despite different clinical characteristics including the response to treatment and the patterns of metastatic relapse, invasive lobular breast carcinoma (ILBC) is treated like invasive ductal breast carcinoma (IDBC) carcinoma both in the clinics and in clinical trials. A large majority of ILBC are ER+/HER2- and almost 90% have loss of E-cadherin (CDH1) expression. A non-clinical study of CDH1 synthetic lethality interactions has identified ROS1 as a potential target. In vivo, ROS1 inhibitors produced profound antitumor effects in multiple models of E-cadherin-defective breast cancer, providing the preclinical rationale for assessing ROS1 inhibitors in this setting. Endocrine therapy being the mainstay of therapy for ER+/HER2- ILBC and the pre-operative setting offering a platform for rapid drug evaluation and biomarker research, the ROSALINE phase 2 study will evaluate the efficacy of Entrectinib (a potent inhibitor of ROS1 among other targets) in combination with letrozole (+ goserelin in premenopausal women) in the early setting of ILBC (stages 1 to 3). The neoadjuvant therapy will last 4 months and post-operative therapy will follow local practice. Biomarker research will include RNA sequencing of initial biopsies and surgical specimens, as well as liquid biopsies.

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

Inclusion Criteria:

  1. Female

  2. Age ≥ 18 years

  3. Histological diagnosis of invasive lobular breast adenocarcinoma that is ER+, andHER2- as per the updated American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) - College ofAmerican Pathologists (CAP) guidelines according to local testing.

  4. Multifocal unilateral or bilateral breast adenocarcinoma tumours are allowed if alltested foci are lobular, ER+ and HER2-.

  • ER positive (ER+ is defined as having an IHC of 1% or more and/or an Allred of 3 or more and HER2-).

  • HER2 negative as defined by 2018 ASCO / CAP Guidelines

  1. A primary non metastatic or locally advanced tumour of 15 mm or more, cN0 or cN1without prior treatment candidate for preoperative treatment.

  2. ECOG Performance Status (PS) 0 or 1.

  3. Adequate Bone Marrow Function including:

  • Absolute Neutrophil Count (ANC) ≥1500/μL or ≥1.5x109/L;

  • Platelets ≥100000/μL or ≥100 x 109/L;

  • Haemoglobin ≥ 9 g/dL.

  1. Adequate Renal Function including: o Serum creatinine ≤ 1.5 x upper limit of normal (ULN) or estimated creatinineclearance ≥ 60 ml/min as calculated using the method standard for the institution.

  2. Adequate Liver Function, including all of the following parameters:

  • Total serum bilirubin ≤ 2.0 x ULN unless the subject has documented Gilbertsyndrome

  • Aspartate and Alanine Aminotransferase (AST and ALT) ≤ 3 x ULN;

  1. Signed Informed Consent form (ICF) obtained prior to any study related procedure.

  2. Completion of all necessary screening procedures within 28 days prior to enrolment.Biopsies at screening must have been obtained up to max 6 weeks before the beginningof treatment.

  3. Subject is willing and able to comply with the protocol for the duration of thestudy including treatment and scheduled visits and examinations.

  4. Women who are not postmenopausal or have not undergone hysterectomy must havedocumented negative pregnancy test (serum) within 28 days prior to enrolment.

  5. Women of childbearing potential and their partners, who are sexually active, mustagree to use one highly effective form of contraception (see protocol section 6.6.1)from the signing of the ICF until at least 5 weeks after last administration ofentrectinib, or they must totally/truly abstain from any form of sexual intercourse.Use of oral hormonal contraceptive agents in this study is not permitted. Inclusion criterion applicable to FRANCE only:

  6. Subject is affiliated to the French Social Security System.

Exclusion

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Clinical T4 disease including inflammatory breast cancer and/or cN3.

  2. Prior history of invasive cancer in the past 5 years except basal or squamous cellcarcinoma of skin that has been definitively treated.

  3. Known hypersensitivity to the study drugs or excipients.

  4. Hyperuricemia > Grade 1

  5. Any illness or medical condition that is unstable or could jeopardize the safety ofthe subject or her compliance with study requirements.

  6. Subjects unable to swallow oral medications.

  7. Prior intake of letrozole, any ROS1 inhibitor, any TRK inhibitor or anticancertherapy (including endocrine therapy). Ovarian suppression including prioradministration of a LHRH analogue (i.e. goserelin) is allowed prior to cycle 1 day 1, at the discretion of the investigator.

  8. Concurrent treatment with strong or moderate CYP3A inhibitor.

  9. Concurrent treatment with any of the drugs not permitted, i.e. strong CYP3A inducersand drugs known to cause QTc interval prolongation.

  10. Significant cardiac disease, including recent (less than 6 months) myocardialinfarction, congestive heart failure, unstable angina, and bradyarrhythmias.

  11. LVEF ≤ 55% measured by echo or MUGA

  12. QTc exceeding 450 msec, history of prolonged QTc interval prolongation; risk factorsfor torsade de pointes; other concomitant medications that may prolong QTc; familyor personal history of long or short QT syndrome, Brugada syndrome or known historyof QTc prolongation, or Torsade de Pointes (TdP).

  13. Pregnant or lactating women.

  14. Known interstitial lung disease, interstitial fibrosis, or history of tyrosinekinase inhibitor-induced pneumonitis

  15. Peripheral neuropathy ≥ Grade 2

  16. Active gastrointestinal disease (e.g., Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, or shortgut syndrome) or other malabsorption syndromes that would reasonably impact drugabsorption. Exclusion criterion applicable to France only

  17. Vulnerable persons according to the article L.1121-6 of the CSP, adults who are thesubject of a measure of legal protection or unable to express their consentaccording to article L.1121-8 of the CSP.

Study Design

Total Participants: 65
Treatment Group(s): 3
Primary Treatment: Entrectinib
Phase: 2
Study Start date:
January 14, 2021
Estimated Completion Date:
January 31, 2025

Study Description

The neoadjuvant setting has been the target of increasing interest recently, as it offers the possibility of direct evaluation of treatment effect on tumour size, better surgical results as well as for the possible research opportunities it provides via the comparative analysis of tumour biology and clinical outcomes before and after treatment.

Invasive lobular breast cancer (ILBC) is the second most common histologic subtype (5-15%) after invasive ductal breast cancer (IDBC). Despite clinical and pathologic differences, ILBC is still treated as IDBC. Indeed, subjects with ILBC tend to have lower response rates to conventional chemotherapeutic agents and some results have suggested that they might derive increased benefit with aromatase inhibitors.

CDK4/6 inhibitors in combination with endocrine therapy are FDA-approved for the treatment of ER-positive/HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer following the results of 7 positive phase 3 trials. These agents are currently tested in phase 3 studies in the adjuvant setting and might achieve the status of standard of care for subjects with ER-positive/HER2-negative early breast cancer treated with curative intent. In the NeoPAL (UCBG10/4, NCT02400567) neoadjuvant randomized study, Residual Cancer Burden (RCB) 0-1 status was achieved for 7.7% of subjects in the letrozole + palbociclib arm. This rate is not available for the 7 subjects with lobular breast cancer enrolled in this arm.

In lobular breast cancer, loss of E-cadherin (CDH1) expression is the most frequent oncogenic event and is present in 90% of cases. In vitro, ex vivo, and in vivo model systems as well as different functional profiling modalities (genetic and chemical screens) have been used to identify CDH1 synthetic lethality interactions. In vivo, ROS1 inhibitors produced profound antitumor effects in multiple models of E-cadherin-defective breast cancer, providing the preclinical rationale for assessing ROS1 inhibitors in this setting. A study is currently investigating this hypothesis in ER+/HER2- metastatic lobular breast cancer (NCT03620643).

Entrectinib is a potent small-molecule tyrosine kinase inhibitor that targets oncogenic rearrangements in NTRK, ROS1, and ALK. In vitro, entrectinib potently ROS1 at low nanomolar concentrations, with an average median inhibitory concentration of 0.007 μM against ROS1.

This single arm, multi-center, phase 2 trial will include pre and post-menopausal women with ER-positive/HER2-negative early stage invasive lobular carcinoma of the breast to evaluate the effect of combining endocrine therapy with entrectinib. Subjects will receive four 28-day cycles of letrozole 2.5 mg daily in combination with entrectinib 600 mg daily. Pre-menopausal women will receive goserelin 3.6 mg every 28 days.

Subjects' response to therapy will be evaluated at screening, after 2 cycles and after the 4 cycles of treatment by breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). An ECG will be performed at screening and then before cycle 2. Surgery will take place after at least 16 weeks of treatment, during week 18 (+ 7-day window). Breast and axillary surgery will follow local practice.

Post-operative therapy will be at the discretion of the investigator and will follow local practice.

Connect with a study center

  • UCL Saint-Luc

    Brussels, 1200
    Belgium

    Site Not Available

  • UZ Brussel

    Brussels, 1090
    Belgium

    Site Not Available

  • Institut Jules Bordet

    Bruxelles, 1070
    Belgium

    Site Not Available

  • Grand Hôpital de Charleroi

    Charleroi, 6000
    Belgium

    Site Not Available

  • UZ Gent

    Gent, 9000
    Belgium

    Site Not Available

  • UZ Leuven

    Leuven, 3000
    Belgium

    Site Not Available

  • CHU Namur - Sainte Elisabeth

    Namur, 5000
    Belgium

    Site Not Available

  • Institut Bergonié

    Bordeaux, 33076
    France

    Site Not Available

  • Institut Curie

    Paris, 75248
    France

    Site Not Available

  • Institut Gustave Roussy

    Villejuif, 94805
    France

    Site Not Available

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