Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to Guide CDK4/6 Inhibitor Rechallenge in Breast Cancer.

Recruiting now · Phase 2

Conditions studied: Breast Cancer

In brief

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if an artificial intelligence model will be able to select patients with advanced breast cancer who may respond to a second cyclin-dependent kinase 4/6 (CDK4/6) inhibitor after they have progressed on the first CDK4/6 inhibitor. Patients for this study need to have hormone receptor positive (HR+) human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 negative (HER2-) advanced breast cancer. The main questions the study aims to answer are: If the artificial intelligence model says that a patient's tumor should respond to the second CDK4/6 inhibitor, and that patient receives the second CDK4/6 inhibitor together with fulvestrant (an endocrine therapy also called Faslodex), will it take longer for the tumor to get worse than if the patient receives another type of therapy? Will the tumor respond better? Will the therapy be safe? Researchers will compare the combination of a second CDK4/6 inhibitor plus fulvestrant to the therapy chosen by the physician. Participants will: Take the assigned therapy based on the way the therapy is usually prescribed. Visit the clinic once every month for checkups, tests, and questionnaires. Keep a diary of the pills they take at home.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT07227233

Run by

University of California, San Diego

People needed

105

Starts

2026-03-31

Expected to finish

2028-12-01

Last updated by the study team

2026-04-09

Who can join

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

You may qualify if…

• Age >18 years
• Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance status 0-2
• Ability to understand and sign the informed consent document
• Stated willingness to comply with all study procedures and availability for the duration of the study
• Advanced breast cancer (defined as unresectable or metastatic) histologically confirmed hormone receptor positive (HR+) human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 negative (HER2-) advanced breast cancer per American Society of Clinical Oncology/College of American Pathologists (CAP) guidelines.
• Endocrine-sensitive disease per the 7th International Consensus Conference on Advanced Breast Cancer (ABC7) 2023 guideline: no relapse during the first 2 years of adjuvant endocrine therapy or progression within the first 6 months of first-line endocrine therapy in the metastatic setting.
• Progression of disease, radiographically per Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) version 1.1 criteria or clinically per physician assessment, after a minimum of 6 months of 1 prior line of any CDK4/6 inhibitor therapy plus or minus endocrine therapy in the metastatic setting, or within 6 months of completing adjuvant CDK4/6 inhibitor with endocrine therapy.
• An additional line of therapy with CDK4/6i is possible and available.
• Zero to 1 prior line of chemotherapy or antibody-drug conjugates in the metastatic setting.
• Available next-generation sequencing panel testing results - or possibility to perform next-generation sequencing panel testing - on tumor tissue biopsy collected within 6 months of enrollment but after CDK4/6 inhibitor exposure. Note that If biopsy was performed more than 6 months before enrollment, the patient is not eligible to participate, unless the biopsy is repeated during the prescreening phase. Adequate tissue/testing will be one of these:
• safe non-osseous tumor site for fresh tissue biopsy and subsequent tissue-based next-generation sequencing testing by any Clinical Laboratory Improvement-certified laboratory. Biopsy and next-generation sequencing testing will be performed as standard of care evaluation.
• archival non-osseous tumor tissue adequate for standard of care next-generation sequencing testing by any Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments-certified labs.
• prior tissue-based next-generation sequencing testing on tissue that was collected and performed within 6 months of study enrollment.
• Palbociclib sensitive disease as determined by the palbo-VNN model.
• Participants can have non-measurable but evaluable disease or measurable disease per Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) version 1.1 criteria
• Participants must have organ and marrow function as defined below:
• Leukocytes > 3,000/microliter
• Hemoglobin > 8 g/deciliter
• Absolute neutrophil count > 1,200/microliter
• Platelets > 75,000/microliter
• For participants of reproductive potential:
• Females: use of highly effective contraception for at least 1 month before initiation of treatment with study medications (cycle 1 day 1) and agreement to use such a method during study participation and until 3 months after the end of treatment visit. Only non-hormonal contraception (eg., copper intrauterine device, barrier, condoms with spermicidal, sponge with spermicidal, or diaphragm with spermicidal), is allowed.
• Males: use of condoms or other methods to ensure effective contraception with a partner during study participation and until 3 months after the end of treatment visit. For partners, use of hormonal contraception is allowed.
• Palliative radiotherapy is allowed.
• Participants with new or progressive brain metastases (active brain metastases) or leptomeningeal disease are eligible if the treating physician determines that immediate locoregional central nervous system-specific treatment is not required and is unlikely to be required during the first cycle of therapy.

You may not qualify if…

• Life expectancy less than 6 months.
• Any medical or psychiatric condition that would prevent the safe use of a CDK4/6 inhibitor or fulvestrant or treatment of physician's choice or the ability to participate in study procedures.
• Participants who are receiving any other investigational agents within 3 weeks of study enrollment only if there is a known pharmacokinetic interaction with the selected drug. No washout period is otherwise required.
• Uncontrolled intercurrent illness including ongoing or active infection, congestive heart failure, unstable angina pectoris or cardiac arrhythmia, lung disease requiring continuous oxygen supplementation, decompensated cirrhosis, end-stage kidney disease on dialysis, or psychiatric illness that limits the ability to participate in the study.
• Unable to have access to abemaciclib, palbociclib, ribociclib, or fulvestrant as a standard of care treatment.
• Pregnancy or lactation.

Where it is running

• University of California, San Diego — La Jolla, California, United States (enrolling)

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