A Trial for HER2 Positive Breast Cancer Patients With Metastatic Disease

Completed · Phase 2

Conditions studied: Breast Neoplasms, Cancer of the Breast, Breast Cancer

In brief

This phase II trial that includes Gemcitabine 1,250mg/m2 to be administered over approximately 30 minutes on days 1 and 8, every 21 days and Trastuzumab 8 mg/kg IV to be administered over 90 minutes on day 1 of the first cycle, then 6mg/kg as a 30 minute infusion administered on subsequent cycles.

Key facts

Study ID: NCT00191373
Run by: Eli Lilly and Company
People needed: 66
Starts: 2002-03-01
Expected to finish: 2007-07-01
Last updated by the study team: 2007-09-12

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: female. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

Patients must have histologically or cytologically confirmed invasive breast cancer, with stage IV disease
Tumors tested by IHC must be 3+ positive for HER2 overexpression. Tumors tested by FISH must be positive by the specific FISH assay for genetic amplification of HER2. Tumors that are 3+ by IHC but negative by FISH assay are ineligible
Patients must have measurable disease
Patients may NOT have received prior chemotherapy or prior trastuzumab therapy for metastatic breast cancer.
Patients may have received prior chemotherapy and/or hormonal therapy for early stage breast cancer, including taxane-based chemotherapy regimens. Patients may NOT have received trastuzumab in the adjuvant setting unless disease free interval from completion of trastuzumab to time of relapse is greater than 12 months.

You may not qualify if…

Patients who have had prior gemcitabine chemotherapy and adjuvant trastuzumab and had less than 12- month disease free interval
Patients with known leptomeningeal carcinomatosis

Where it is running

For additional information regarding investigative sites for this trial, contact 1-877-CTLILLY (1-877-285-4559, 1-317-615-4559) Mon-Fri from 9AM to 5PM Eastern Time (UTC/GMT - 5 hours, EST), or speak with your personal physician. — Hot Springs, Arkansas, United States
For additional information regarding investigative sites for this trial, contact 1-877-CTLILLY (1-877-285-4559, 1-317-615-4559) Mon-Fri from 9AM to 5PM Eastern Time (UTC/GMT - 5 hours, EST), or speak with your personal physician. — Pine Bluff, Arkansas, United States
For additional information regarding investigative sites for this trial, contact 1-877-CTLILLY (1-877-285-4559, 1-317-615-4559) Mon-Fri from 9AM to 5PM Eastern Time (UTC/GMT - 5 hours, EST), or speak with your personal physician. — Redding, California, United States
For additional information regarding investigative sites for this trial, contact 1-877-CT-LILLY (1-877-285-4559, 1-317-615-4559) Mon-Fri from 9AM to 5PM Eastern Time (UTC/GMT - 5 hours, EST), or speak with your personal physician. — Hollywood, Florida, United States
For additional information regarding investigative sites for this trial, contact 1-877-CTLILLY (1-877-285-4559, 1-317-615-4559) Mon-Fri from 9AM to 5PM Eastern Time (UTC/GMT - 5 hours, EST), or speak with your personal physician. — Plantation, Florida, United States
For additional information regarding investigative sites for this trial, contact 1-877-CTLILLY (1-877-285-4559, 1-317-615-4559) Mon-Fri from 9AM to 5PM Eastern Time (UTC/GMT - 5 hours, EST), or speak with your personal physician. — Baltimore, Maryland, United States
For additional information regarding investigative sites for this trial, contact 1-877-CTLILLY (1-877-285-4559, 1-317-615-4559) Mon-Fri from 9AM to 5PM Eastern Time (UTC/GMT - 5 hours, EST), or speak with your personal physician. — Voorhees Township, New Jersey, United States
For additional information regarding investigative sites for this trial, contact 1-877-CTLILLY (1-877-285-4559, 1-317-615-4559) Mon-Fri from 9AM to 5PM Eastern Time (UTC/GMT - 5 hours, EST), or speak with your personal physician. — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
For additional information regarding investigative sites for this trial, contact 1-877-CTLILLY (1-877-285-4559, 1-317-615-4559) Mon-Fri from 9AM to 5PM Eastern Time (UTC/GMT - 5 hours, EST), or speak with your personal physician. — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
For additional information regarding investigative sites for this trial, contact 1-877-CTLILLY (1-877-285-4559, 1-317-615-4559) Mon-Fri from 9AM to 5PM Eastern Time (UTC/GMT - 5 hours, EST), or speak with your personal physician. — Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
For additional information regarding investigative sites for this trial, contact 1-877-CT-LILLY (1-877-285-4559, 1-317-615-4559) Mon-Fri from 9AM to 5PM Eastern Time (UTC/GMT - 5 hours, EST), or speak with your personal physician. — Logan, Utah, United States
For additional information regarding investigative sites for this trial, contact 1-877-CT-LILLY (1-877-285-4559, 1-317-615-4559) Mon-Fri from 9AM to 5PM Eastern Time (UTC/GMT - 5 hours, EST), or speak with your personal physician. — Ogden, Utah, United States
For additional information regarding investigative sites for this trial, contact 1-877-CTLILLY (1-877-285-4559, 1-317-615-4559) Mon-Fri from 9AM to 5PM Eastern Time (UTC/GMT - 5 hours, EST), or speak with your personal physician. — Morgantown, West Virginia, United States

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