ETHAN - ET for Male BC

Last updated: April 8, 2025
Sponsor: Jose Pablo Leone
Overall Status: Active - Recruiting

Phase

2

Condition

Gynecomastia (Breast Enlargement) - Pediatrics

Breast Cancer

Treatment

Abemaciclib

Anastrozole

Tamoxifen

Clinical Study ID

NCT05501704
22-225
  • Ages > 18
  • Male

Study Summary

This research study is looking to see how well male breast cancer responds to preoperative treatment with endocrine therapy and which endocrine therapy regimen is the most effective treatment for male breast cancer.

The drugs used in this study are:

  • Tamoxifen

  • Anastrozole

  • Degarelix

  • Abemaciclib

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Men aged 18 years or older, with diagnosis of invasive breast cancer who have notundergone surgical resection of the primary tumor and axillary nodes.

  • Stage I, II, or III per American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) staging 8thedition (112).

  • Breast cancer must be hormone receptor-positive and HER2-negative according todefinition below assessed by local pathology.

  • Hormone receptor-positive is defined as: positivity for at least one of thehormone receptors (estrogen receptor [ER] or progesterone receptor [PR]) byIHC. ER and PR assays are considered positive if there are > 1% positive tumornuclei in the samples.

  • HER2-negative is defined per the current American Society of ClinicalOncology/College of American Pathologists Clinical Practice Guideline (113).

  • Patients with multifocal or multicentric disease are eligible if the treatinginvestigator has determined the patient should be treated as ER-positive andHER2-negative.

  • Bilateral breast cancers are allowed if the treating investigator has determined thepatient should be treated as ER-positive and HER2-negative.

  • Patients with a history of ipsilateral or contralateral DCIS or LCIS are eligible.

  • ECOG performance status ≤ 2.

  • Required laboratory values demonstrating adequate organ function:

  • ANC ≥ 1000/mm3

  • Hemoglobin ≥ 8 g/dl

  • Platelets ≥ 50,000/mm3

  • Serum creatinine ≤ 3.0 x ULN (institutional)

  • Total bilirubin ≤ 2.0 x ULN (institutional).

  • AST and ALT ≤ 5.0 x ULN (institutional)

  • Men with partners of childbearing potential must be willing to use one highlyeffective form of non-hormonal contraception or two effective forms of non-hormonalcontraception by the patient and/or partner and continue its use for the duration ofthe study treatment and for 6 months after the last dose of study treatment.

  • Non-English-speaking patients are eligible but will be exempt from patient-completedquestionnaires.

  • Willing and able to sign informed consent.

  • Willing to undergo breast biopsy after completion of window phase.

  • Patient is able to swallow oral medications.

Exclusion

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Prior endocrine therapy, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, or investigational therapyfor the current breast cancer diagnosis.

  • Prior endocrine therapy, systemic therapy, radiation therapy, or investigationaltherapy for any other malignancy within the past 12 months.

  • Diagnosis of inflammatory breast cancer (T4d).

  • Other concurrent serious diseases that may interfere with planned treatment,including severe cardiac disease, congestive heart failure (CHF) of New York HeartAssociation (NYHA) Class III or higher, severe pulmonary conditions/illness,uncontrolled infections.

  • The patient has serious and/or uncontrolled preexisting medical condition(s) that,in the judgment of the investigator, would preclude participation in this study (forexample, interstitial lung disease, severe dyspnea at rest or requiring oxygentherapy, severe renal impairment [e.g. estimated creatinine clearance <30ml/min],history of major surgical resection involving the stomach or small bowel, orpreexisting Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis or a preexisting chronic conditionresulting in baseline Grade 2 or higher diarrhea).

  • The patient has active systemic bacterial infection (requiring intravenous [IV]antibiotics at time of initiating study treatment), fungal infection, or detectableviral infection (such as known human immunodeficiency virus positivity or with knownactive hepatitis B or C [for example, hepatitis B surface antigen positive].Screening is not required for enrollment.

  • The patient has a personal history of any of the following conditions: syncope ofcardiovascular etiology, ventricular arrhythmia of pathological origin (including,but not limited to, ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation), or suddencardiac arrest.

Study Design

Total Participants: 60
Treatment Group(s): 4
Primary Treatment: Abemaciclib
Phase: 2
Study Start date:
October 11, 2023
Estimated Completion Date:
April 01, 2036

Study Description

This is an open-label, multicenter, randomized trial for men with stage I-III hormone receptor-positive (HR+)/HER2-negative breast cancer. The trial will have two phases: A 3-week window phase containing endocrine therapy followed by a 4-month treatment phase where participants are treated with one of four endocrine therapy treatment combinations.

Tamoxifen is the standard of care for the treatment of breast cancer in men. Anastrozole is a standard treatment in women with breast cancer and works more effectively than tamoxifen. This study hopes to learn if anastrozole may also be effective in men. Given that gonadal suppression and CDK 4/6 inhibitors have both improved treatment in women with breast cancer, the study hopes to learn how the addition of Degarelix (gonadal suppression) and Abemaciclib (CDK 4/6 inhibitors) work in comparison to standard of care tamoxifen.

The research study procedures include screening for eligibility and study treatment including laboratory evaluations and quality of life questionnaires.

After completion of treatment, participants will be followed for up to 10 years

It is expected that about 60 men will take part in this research study.

Eli Lilly, a pharmaceutical company, is supporting this research study by providing one of the study drugs. This study is also being supported by Johns Hopkins University on behalf of the Translational Breast Cancer Research Consortium (TBCRC).

Connect with a study center

  • Georgetown University Medical Center

    Washington, District of Columbia 20007
    United States

    Active - Recruiting

  • Brigham and Women's Hospital

    Boston, Massachusetts 02215
    United States

    Site Not Available

  • Dana Farber Cancer Institute

    Boston, Massachusetts 02115
    United States

    Active - Recruiting

  • Mayo Clinic

    Rochester, Minnesota 55905
    United States

    Active - Recruiting

  • UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center

    Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599
    United States

    Active - Recruiting

  • University of Pennsylvania, Abramson Cancer Center

    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104
    United States

    Active - Recruiting

  • University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute

    Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15232
    United States

    Active - Recruiting

  • M. D. Anderson Cancer Center at University of Texas

    Houston, Texas 77030-4009
    United States

    Active - Recruiting

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