Skip to main content
An official website of the United States government
Government Funding Lapse
Because of a lapse in government funding, the information on this website may not be up to date, transactions submitted via the website may not be processed, and the agency may not be able to respond to inquiries until appropriations are enacted.

The NIH Clinical Center (the research hospital of NIH) is open. For more details about its operating status, please visit cc.nih.gov.

Updates regarding government operating status and resumption of normal operations can be found at opm.gov.

Genomically Directed Therapy with Capecitabine after Surgery for the Treatment of Residual Stage I-III Invasive Triple Negative Breast Cancer, PERSEVERE study

Trial Status: administratively complete

This phase II trial studies the effect of using certain medication combinations or a standard treatment approach based on presence of circulating tumor in the blood (liquid biopsy) and identification of genetic differences in the tumor in treating patients with stage I-III invasive triple negative breast cancer. DNA is a record of instructions telling the cells what their job will be such as determining eye color or hair color. This study includes extracting blood and tumor DNA and then performing “next generation sequencing” testing. Next generation sequencing is a new way to look at abnormalities and differences in the DNA obtained from the tumor. This study will use two tests to determine study treatment assignment. The first test is looking at whether patients have circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) in their blood. When chemotherapy kills the tumor, it releases cells into the blood stream or ctDNA. Studies show that patients with positive ctDNA may be at greater risk to relapse after surgery. The second test will look at the tumor’s DNA abnormalities (genomic target). If patients are positive for ctDNA in their blood and they have a genomic target in their tumor tissue, then they will be assigned to receive one of four “directed” therapy combinations. Chemotherapy drugs, such as capecitabine, work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells, by stopping them from dividing, or by stopping them from spreading. Talazoparib is an inhibitor of PARP, an enzyme that helps repair deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) when it becomes damaged. Blocking PARP may help keep cancer cells from repairing their damaged DNA, causing them to die. PARP inhibitors are a type of targeted therapy. Immunotherapy with monoclonal antibodies, such as atezolizumab, may help the body's immune system attack the cancer, and may interfere with the ability of tumor cells to grow and spread. Inavolisib may stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking some of the enzymes needed for cell growth. Giving genomically directed therapy may work better than standard treatment in treating patients with residual stage I-III invasive triple negative breast cancer.