Tykerb Evaluation After Chemotherapy (TEACH): Lapatinib Versus Placebo In Women With Early-Stage Breast Cancer

Summary

This study was designed to evaluate and compare the safety and efficacy of an oral dual tyrosine kinase inhibitor, lapatinib, versus placebo in women with early-stage ErbB2-overexpressing breast cancer who have completed their primary neoadjuvant or adjuvant chemotherapy and have no clinical or radiographic evidence of disease.

Timeline

Start

2006-08

Primary completion

2011-09

Completion

2013-07

Publications

• Background P Goss, I Smith, J O'Shaughnessy, B Ejlertsen, M Kaufmann, F Boyle, A Buzdar, P Fumoleau, W Gradishar, M Martin, B Moy, M Piccart-Gebhart, K I Pritchard, D Lindquist, Y Chavarri-Guerra, G Aktan, E Rappold, L S Williams, D M Finkelstein. Resubmission: A Randomized Trial of Adjuvant Lapatinib in Women with Early Stage HER2 Overexpressing Breast Cancer. Lancet Oncol. 2012;S 1470-2045(12):70508-9.
• Boyle FM, Smith IE, O'Shaughnessy J, Ejlertsen B, Buzdar AU, Fumoleau P, Gradishar W, Martin M, Moy B, Piccart-Gebhart M, Pritchard KI, Lindquist D, Amonkar M, Huang Y, Rappold E, Williams LS, Wang-Silvanto J, Kaneko T, Finkelstein DM, Goss PE; TEACH Investigators. Health related quality of life of women in TEACH, a randomised placebo controlled adjuvant trial of lapatinib in early stage Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (HER2) overexpressing breast cancer. Eur J Cancer. 2015 Apr;51(6):685-96. doi: 10.1016/j.ejca.2015.02.005. Epub 2015 Mar 6.
• Schaid DJ, Spraggs CF, McDonnell SK, Parham LR, Cox CJ, Ejlertsen B, Finkelstein DM, Rappold E, Curran J, Cardon LR, Goss PE. Prospective validation of HLA-DRB1*07:01 allele carriage as a predictive risk factor for lapatinib-induced liver injury. J Clin Oncol. 2014 Aug 1;32(22):2296-303. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2013.52.9867. Epub 2014 Mar 31.
• Goss PE, Smith IE, O'Shaughnessy J, Ejlertsen B, Kaufmann M, Boyle F, Buzdar AU, Fumoleau P, Gradishar W, Martin M, Moy B, Piccart-Gebhart M, Pritchard KI, Lindquist D, Chavarri-Guerra Y, Aktan G, Rappold E, Williams LS, Finkelstein DM; TEACH investigators. Adjuvant lapatinib for women with early-stage HER2-positive breast cancer: a randomised, controlled, phase 3 trial. Lancet Oncol. 2013 Jan;14(1):88-96. doi: 10.1016/S1470-2045(12)70508-9. Epub 2012 Dec 10.

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