Study of Preoperative Weekly Paclitaxel and Carboplatin With Lapatinib (Tykerb®) in Patients With ErbB2-Positive Stage I-III Breast Cancer

Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of weekly paclitaxel and carboplatin, in combination with lapatinib, in the neoadjuvant treatment of non-metastatic erbB2-positive breast cancer. Secondary objectives include: * To determine the safety and tolerability of weekly paclitaxel and carboplatin, combined with lapatinib, in an Asian population * To determine breast conservation rates following neoadjuvant paclitaxel/ carboplatin/ lapatinib * To determine clinical response rates and relapse-free survival of patients treated with neoadjuvant paclitaxel/ carboplatin/ lapatinib * To identify predictive tumour biomarkers for pathologic complete response The investigators hypothesize that pathologic complete response rates will be improved from 15% to 35% with the neoadjuvant regimen of carboplatin/ paclitaxel/ lapatinib compared to standard chemotherapy alone in HER2 positive early stage breast cancers.

Timeline

Start

2011-04

Primary completion

2014-12

Completion

2015-12

Publications

• Background Fisher B, Bryant J, Wolmark N, Mamounas E, Brown A, Fisher ER, Wickerham DL, Begovic M, DeCillis A, Robidoux A, Margolese RG, Cruz AB Jr, Hoehn JL, Lees AW, Dimitrov NV, Bear HD. Effect of preoperative chemotherapy on the outcome of women with operable breast cancer. J Clin Oncol. 1998 Aug;16(8):2672-85. doi: 10.1200/JCO.1998.16.8.2672.
• Background Geyer CE, Forster J, Lindquist D, Chan S, Romieu CG, Pienkowski T, Jagiello-Gruszfeld A, Crown J, Chan A, Kaufman B, Skarlos D, Campone M, Davidson N, Berger M, Oliva C, Rubin SD, Stein S, Cameron D. Lapatinib plus capecitabine for HER2-positive advanced breast cancer. N Engl J Med. 2006 Dec 28;355(26):2733-43. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa064320.

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