Immune Response to Anti-HER2 Therapies in Patients With HER2-Positive Stage I-IV Breast Cancer

NCT ID: NCT04517838

Last Updated: 2025-12-24

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

RECRUITING

Total Enrollment

230 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2020-07-31

Study Completion Date

2028-07-27

Brief Summary

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This study gathers information from the blood cells and tumor tissue during treatment with anti-HER2 therapies, such as trastuzumab, pertuzumab, lapatinib, or neratinib, in patients with HER2 positive stage I-IV breast cancer who are scheduled to start anti-HER2 therapy. The information gained from this study may help researchers better understand the relation between cell response and anti-HER2 therapies.

Detailed Description

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PRIMARY OBJECTIVES I. To determine the correlation between HER2 specific T-cell response in HER2-positive breast cancer patients with stage I-IV who receive anti-HER2 therapies, such as trastuzumab, pertuzumab, lapatinib, or neratinib and clinical responses.

II. To determine the correlation between antibody response in HER2-positive breast cancer patients with stage I-IV who receive anti-HER2 therapies, such as trastuzumab, pertuzumab, lapatinib, or neratinib and clinical responses.

III. To determine the correlation between host immune response in tumor tissue in HER2-positive breast cancer patients with stage I-IV who receive anti-HER2 therapies, such as trastuzumab, pertuzumab, lapatinib, or neratinib and clinical responses.

EXPLORATORY OBJECTIVES:

I. To estimate the proportion of patients who develop HER2-specific T cell and endogenous antibody responses.

II. To examine within individual patients trends in levels of HER2 CD4 T-cells, HER2 CD8 T-cells, and HER2-specific antibodies over the course of treatment.

III. To determine if combination therapy induces immunity to common breast cancer associated antigens (i.e. CEA, IGFBP2, and P53).

IV. To determine if induction of HER2-specific T cell or antibody immunity is associated with improved progression-free and overall survival in patients.

V. To determine if there are Fc gamma receptor (R) or HLA genotypes associated with the ability to generate immunity in response to anti-HER2 therapy.

VI. To determine whether anti-HER2 therapy induces HER2 loss and modulation of HER2-specific adaptive immune responses.

VII. To determine if loss-of-function mutations in antigen presenting genes are associated with recurrence in patients with HER2+ breast cancer.

VIII. To determine gene expression levels in tumors from patients who did not achieve pathologic complete response (pCR) that are associated with recurrence.

OUTLINE: This is an observational study. Patients are assigned to 1 of 2 cohorts.

BLOOD \& TISSUE COHORT: Patients with stage I-III disease undergo collection of blood samples at baseline, 8 and 16 weeks after starting treatment, and at the time of invasive disease recurrence. Patients with stage IV disease undergo collection of blood samples at baseline, 8 and 16 weeks after starting treatment, and at the time of progressive disease. Patients with stage IV disease with no disease progression ≥ 2 years on the same line of therapy undergo collection of blood samples at baseline, 8 and 16 weeks after starting treatment, and at the time of invasive disease recurrence. For all patients, tissue samples from previous biopsy and/or surgical resection are also collected on study.

TISSUE-ONLY COHORT: For patients with stage I-IV disease who received or previously completed anti-HER2 therapy, tissue samples from previous biopsy and/or surgical resection are collected on study.

Conditions

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Breast Adenocarcinoma HER2-Positive Breast Carcinoma Anatomic Stage I Breast Cancer AJCC v8 Anatomic Stage II Breast Cancer AJCC v8 Anatomic Stage III Breast Cancer AJCC v8 Anatomic Stage IV Breast Cancer AJCC v8

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

CASE_ONLY

Study Time Perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Study Groups

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Observational Blood & Tissue Cohort

Patients with stage I-III disease undergo collection of blood samples at baseline, 8 and 16 weeks after starting treatment, and at the time of invasive disease recurrence. Patients with stage IV disease undergo collection of blood samples at baseline, 8 and 16 weeks after starting treatment, and at the time of progressive disease. Patients with stage IV disease with no disease progression ≥ 2 years on the same line of therapy undergo collection of blood samples at baseline, 8 and 16 weeks after starting treatment, and at the time of invasive disease recurrence. For all patients, tissue samples from previous biopsy and/or surgical resection are also collected on study.

Biospecimen Collection

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Undergo collection of blood and tumor tissue samples

Observational Tissue-Only Cohort

For patients with stage I-IV disease who received or previously completed anti-HER2 therapy, tissue samples from previous biopsy and/or surgical resection are collected on study.

Biospecimen Collection

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Undergo collection of blood and tumor tissue samples

Interventions

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Biospecimen Collection

Undergo collection of blood and tumor tissue samples

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Other Intervention Names

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Biological Sample Collection Biospecimen Collected Specimen Collection

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Age \>= 18 years
* Histological confirmed adenocarcinoma of the breast stage I-IV from the American Joint Committee on Cancer staging 8th edition
* Any estrogen receptor (ER) or progesterone receptor (PR) but HER2 positive defined as per the most current American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)/College of American Pathologists (CAP) guideline
* Provide written informed consent
* Willingness to provide blood samples for correlative research purposes
* BLOOD AND TISSUE COHORT: Scheduled to start new anti-HER2 therapy/therapies
* TISSUE-ONLY COHORT: Received or previously completed anti-HER2 therapy/therapies

Exclusion Criteria

* Immunocompromised patients including patients known to be human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) positive
* Receiving systemic steroid therapy or any other immunosuppressive therapy =\< 30 days prior to registration. NOTE: Inhaled steroids, low-dose corticosteroids (e.g. equivalent to or less than oral prednisone 10 mg daily), and steroid use for primary prevention of nausea per institutional guidelines are allowed.
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

FEMALE

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Mayo Clinic

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Saranya Chumsri, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Mayo Clinic

Locations

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Mayo Clinic in Florida

Jacksonville, Florida, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

Countries

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United States

Central Contacts

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Clinical Trials Referral Office

Role: CONTACT

Phone: 855-776-0015

Email: [email protected]

Facility Contacts

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Clinical Trials Referral Office

Role: primary

Related Links

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Other Identifiers

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NCI-2020-05781

Identifier Type: REGISTRY

Identifier Source: secondary_id

19-011040

Identifier Type: OTHER

Identifier Source: secondary_id

MC1937

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id