drugset / Trial / NCT00045032
Herceptin (Trastuzumab) in Treating Women With Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (HER) 2-Positive Primary Breast Cancer
Phase 3
Completed
5099 enrolled
Hoffmann-La Roche
Breast International Group · collabETOP IBCSG Partners Foundation · collabEuropean Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer - EORTC · collabNCIC Clinical Trials Group · collab
RandomizedParallel-groupOpen-labelTreatment
Summary
The purpose of this trial is to evaluate Herceptin treatment for 1 year and 2 years (versus observation/no Herceptin) in women with HER2-overexpressing primary breast cancer who have completed (neo-)adjuvant systemic chemotherapy, definitive surgery, and radiotherapy, if applicable. Efficacy and safety will be assessed for 10 years from randomization for each participant. All participants will continue to be followed for survival until 10 years after enrollment of the last participant.
Timeline
- Start
- 2001-11
- Primary completion
- 2005-03
- Completion
- 2015-06
Outcome
Met primary endpoint
registry analysis (superiority or other test); Observation Arm vs Herceptin 1-Year Arm; p <0.0001; Log Rank NCT00045032 ↗
paper One year of treatment with trastuzumab after adjuvant chemotherapy significantly improves disease-free survival among women with HER2-positive breast cancer. PMID 16236737 ↗
Publications
- Background Jahanzeb M. Adjuvant trastuzumab therapy for HER2-positive breast cancer. Clin Breast Cancer. 2008 Aug;8(4):324-33. doi: 10.3816/CBC.2008.n.037.
- Background Shiroiwa T, Fukuda T, Shimozuma K, Ohashi Y, Tsutani K. The model-based cost-effectiveness analysis of 1-year adjuvant trastuzumab treatment: based on 2-year follow-up HERA trial data. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2008 Jun;109(3):559-66. doi: 10.1007/s10549-007-9679-4. Epub 2007 Jul 28.
- Results Gianni L, Dafni U, Gelber RD, Azambuja E, Muehlbauer S, Goldhirsch A, Untch M, Smith I, Baselga J, Jackisch C, Cameron D, Mano M, Pedrini JL, Veronesi A, Mendiola C, Pluzanska A, Semiglazov V, Vrdoljak E, Eckart MJ, Shen Z, Skiadopoulos G, Procter M, Pritchard KI, Piccart-Gebhart MJ, Bell R; Herceptin Adjuvant (HERA) Trial Study Team. Treatment with trastuzumab for 1 year after adjuvant chemotherapy in patients with HER2-positive early breast cancer: a 4-year follow-up of a randomised controlled trial. Lancet Oncol. 2011 Mar;12(3):236-44. doi: 10.1016/S1470-2045(11)70033-X. Epub 2011 Feb 25.
- Results Procter M, Suter TM, de Azambuja E, Dafni U, van Dooren V, Muehlbauer S, Climent MA, Rechberger E, Liu WT, Toi M, Coombes RC, Dodwell D, Pagani O, Madrid J, Hall M, Chen SC, Focan C, Muschol M, van Veldhuisen DJ, Piccart-Gebhart MJ. Longer-term assessment of trastuzumab-related cardiac adverse events in the Herceptin Adjuvant (HERA) trial. J Clin Oncol. 2010 Jul 20;28(21):3422-8. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2009.26.0463. Epub 2010 Jun 7.
- Results Dowsett M, Procter M, McCaskill-Stevens W, de Azambuja E, Dafni U, Rueschoff J, Jordan B, Dolci S, Abramovitz M, Stoss O, Viale G, Gelber RD, Piccart-Gebhart M, Leyland-Jones B. Disease-free survival according to degree of HER2 amplification for patients treated with adjuvant chemotherapy with or without 1 year of trastuzumab: the HERA Trial. J Clin Oncol. 2009 Jun 20;27(18):2962-9. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2008.19.7939. Epub 2009 Apr 13.
- Results Untch M, Gelber RD, Jackisch C, Procter M, Baselga J, Bell R, Cameron D, Bari M, Smith I, Leyland-Jones B, de Azambuja E, Wermuth P, Khasanov R, Feng-Yi F, Constantin C, Mayordomo JI, Su CH, Yu SY, Lluch A, Senkus-Konefka E, Price C, Haslbauer F, Suarez Sahui T, Srimuninnimit V, Colleoni M, Coates AS, Piccart-Gebhart MJ, Goldhirsch A; HERA Study Team. Estimating the magnitude of trastuzumab effects within patient subgroups in the HERA trial. Ann Oncol. 2008 Jun;19(6):1090-6. doi: 10.1093/annonc/mdn005. Epub 2008 Feb 21.
- Results McCaskill-Stevens W, Procter M, Goodbrand J, et al.: Disease-free survival according to local immunohistochemistry for HER2 and central fluorescence in situ hydridization for patients treated with adjuvant chemotherapy with and without trastuzumab in the HERA (BIG 01-01) trial. [Abstract] Breast Cancer Res Treat 106 (1): A-71, S18, 2007.
- Results Smith I, Procter M, Gelber RD, Guillaume S, Feyereislova A, Dowsett M, Goldhirsch A, Untch M, Mariani G, Baselga J, Kaufmann M, Cameron D, Bell R, Bergh J, Coleman R, Wardley A, Harbeck N, Lopez RI, Mallmann P, Gelmon K, Wilcken N, Wist E, Sanchez Rovira P, Piccart-Gebhart MJ; HERA study team. 2-year follow-up of trastuzumab after adjuvant chemotherapy in HER2-positive breast cancer: a randomised controlled trial. Lancet. 2007 Jan 6;369(9555):29-36. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(07)60028-2.
- Results Suter TM, Procter M, van Veldhuisen DJ, Muscholl M, Bergh J, Carlomagno C, Perren T, Passalacqua R, Bighin C, Klijn JG, Ageev FT, Hitre E, Groetz J, Iwata H, Knap M, Gnant M, Muehlbauer S, Spence A, Gelber RD, Piccart-Gebhart MJ. Trastuzumab-associated cardiac adverse effects in the herceptin adjuvant trial. J Clin Oncol. 2007 Sep 1;25(25):3859-65. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2006.09.1611. Epub 2007 Jul 23.
- Results Piccart-Gebhart MJ, Procter M, Leyland-Jones B, Goldhirsch A, Untch M, Smith I, Gianni L, Baselga J, Bell R, Jackisch C, Cameron D, Dowsett M, Barrios CH, Steger G, Huang CS, Andersson M, Inbar M, Lichinitser M, Lang I, Nitz U, Iwata H, Thomssen C, Lohrisch C, Suter TM, Ruschoff J, Suto T, Greatorex V, Ward C, Straehle C, McFadden E, Dolci MS, Gelber RD; Herceptin Adjuvant (HERA) Trial Study Team. Trastuzumab after adjuvant chemotherapy in HER2-positive breast cancer. N Engl J Med. 2005 Oct 20;353(16):1659-72. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa052306.
- Bae SJ, Moon S, Kook Y, Baek SH, Lee M, Jeong J, Ahn SG. Ovarian Function Suppression in HR-Positive, HER2-Positive Breast Cancer: An Exploratory Analysis of the HERA Trial. J Natl Compr Canc Netw. 2025 Dec;23(12):539-547. doi: 10.6004/jnccn.2025.7080.
- Bae SJ, Moon S, Kook Y, Baek SH, Lee M, Kim JH, Ahn SG, Jeong J. Clinical relevance of clinical treatment score post-5 years (CTS5) in HR-positive, HER2-positive breast cancer. NPJ Breast Cancer. 2025 Apr 2;11(1):33. doi: 10.1038/s41523-025-00747-6.
- Yerushalmi R, Dong B, Chapman JW, Goss PE, Pollak MN, Burnell MJ, Levine MN, Bramwell VHC, Pritchard KI, Whelan TJ, Ingle JN, Shepherd LE, Parulekar WR, Han L, Ding K, Gelmon KA. Impact of baseline BMI and weight change in CCTG adjuvant breast cancer trials. Ann Oncol. 2017 Jul 1;28(7):1560-1568. doi: 10.1093/annonc/mdx152.
- Cameron D, Piccart-Gebhart MJ, Gelber RD, Procter M, Goldhirsch A, de Azambuja E, Castro G Jr, Untch M, Smith I, Gianni L, Baselga J, Al-Sakaff N, Lauer S, McFadden E, Leyland-Jones B, Bell R, Dowsett M, Jackisch C; Herceptin Adjuvant (HERA) Trial Study Team. 11 years' follow-up of trastuzumab after adjuvant chemotherapy in HER2-positive early breast cancer: final analysis of the HERceptin Adjuvant (HERA) trial. Lancet. 2017 Mar 25;389(10075):1195-1205. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(16)32616-2. Epub 2017 Feb 17.
- Loi S, Dafni U, Karlis D, Polydoropoulou V, Young BM, Willis S, Long B, de Azambuja E, Sotiriou C, Viale G, Ruschoff J, Piccart MJ, Dowsett M, Michiels S, Leyland-Jones B. Effects of Estrogen Receptor and Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor-2 Levels on the Efficacy of Trastuzumab: A Secondary Analysis of the HERA Trial. JAMA Oncol. 2016 Aug 1;2(8):1040-7. doi: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2016.0339.
- O'Sullivan CC, Bradbury I, Campbell C, Spielmann M, Perez EA, Joensuu H, Costantino JP, Delaloge S, Rastogi P, Zardavas D, Ballman KV, Holmes E, de Azambuja E, Piccart-Gebhart M, Zujewski JA, Gelber RD. Efficacy of Adjuvant Trastuzumab for Patients With Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2-Positive Early Breast Cancer and Tumors </= 2 cm: A Meta-Analysis of the Randomized Trastuzumab Trials. J Clin Oncol. 2015 Aug 20;33(24):2600-8. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2015.60.8620. Epub 2015 Jun 22.
- de Azambuja E, Procter MJ, van Veldhuisen DJ, Agbor-Tarh D, Metzger-Filho O, Steinseifer J, Untch M, Smith IE, Gianni L, Baselga J, Jackisch C, Cameron DA, Bell R, Leyland-Jones B, Dowsett M, Gelber RD, Piccart-Gebhart MJ, Suter TM. Trastuzumab-associated cardiac events at 8 years of median follow-up in the Herceptin Adjuvant trial (BIG 1-01). J Clin Oncol. 2014 Jul 10;32(20):2159-65. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2013.53.9288. Epub 2014 Jun 9.
- Zabaglo L, Stoss O, Ruschoff J, Zielinski D, Salter J, Arfi M, Bradbury I, Dafni U, Piccart-Gebhart M, Procter M, Dowsett M; HERA Trial Study Team. HER2 staining intensity in HER2-positive disease: relationship with FISH amplification and clinical outcome in the HERA trial of adjuvant trastuzumab. Ann Oncol. 2013 Nov;24(11):2761-6. doi: 10.1093/annonc/mdt275. Epub 2013 Jul 25.
- Goldhirsch A, Gelber RD, Piccart-Gebhart MJ, de Azambuja E, Procter M, Suter TM, Jackisch C, Cameron D, Weber HA, Heinzmann D, Dal Lago L, McFadden E, Dowsett M, Untch M, Gianni L, Bell R, Kohne CH, Vindevoghel A, Andersson M, Brunt AM, Otero-Reyes D, Song S, Smith I, Leyland-Jones B, Baselga J; Herceptin Adjuvant (HERA) Trial Study Team. 2 years versus 1 year of adjuvant trastuzumab for HER2-positive breast cancer (HERA): an open-label, randomised controlled trial. Lancet. 2013 Sep 21;382(9897):1021-8. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(13)61094-6. Epub 2013 Jul 18.
- Metzger-Filho O, Procter M, de Azambuja E, Leyland-Jones B, Gelber RD, Dowsett M, Loi S, Saini KS, Cameron D, Untch M, Smith I, Gianni L, Baselga J, Jackisch C, Bell R, Sotiriou C, Viale G, Piccart-Gebhart M. Magnitude of trastuzumab benefit in patients with HER2-positive, invasive lobular breast carcinoma: results from the HERA trial. J Clin Oncol. 2013 Jun 1;31(16):1954-60. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2012.46.2440. Epub 2013 Apr 15.
Drugs
| Evaluation | Drug | Modality | Dose | Route |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Trastuzumab | Monoclonal antibody | 6 mg/kg | Intravenous |