Dinaciclib and Pembrolizumab in Treating Participants with Metastatic or Locally Advanced Breast Cancer That is Unresectable

Inclusion Criteria

• Histologically or cytologically documented, incurable, unresectable locally advanced, or metastatic breast cancer
• Histologically documented metastatic or locally advanced unresectable breast cancer that is estrogen receptor (ER) and progesterone receptor (PR) < 10% expression and does not over-express HER2 protein (immunohistochemistry [IHC] 0, 1+, or 2+ and fluorescence in situ hybridization [FISH] < 2.0)
• Patient must consent to a biopsy of a site of disease unless the only site of disease is lung/pleura, bone, or deemed unsafe by the principal investigator
• Patient must have performance status of 0-1 on the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance scale and life expectancy > 3 months
• Patient must have evaluable disease
• Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) >= 1,500 /uL
• Platelets >= 100,000 /uL
• Hemoglobin >= 9 g/dL
• Serum creatinine =< 1.5 x upper limit of normal (ULN) OR calculated creatinine clearance >= 60 mL/min for patients with creatinine levels > 1.5 x institutional ULN
• Serum total bilirubin =< 1.5 x ULN OR direct bilirubin =< ULN for patients with total bilirubin levels > 1.5 x ULN
• Aspartate aminotransferase (AST) (serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase [SGOT]) and alanine aminotransferase (ALT) (serum glutamic pyruvic transaminase [SGPT]) =< 2.5 x ULN; =< 5 x ULN if liver metastasis
• Prothrombin time (PT)/international normalized ratio (INR) =< 1.2 x ULN
• Partial thromboplastin time (PTT) =< 1.2 x ULN
• Female patient of childbearing potential must have a negative serum or urine pregnancy test beta-human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) within 72 hours prior to first doses of study medication. If the urine test is positive or cannot be confirmed as negative, a serum pregnancy test will be required
• Female subjects of childbearing potential must be willing to use an adequate method of contraception for the course of the study through 120 days after the last dose of study medication * Note: abstinence is acceptable if this is the usual lifestyle and preferred contraception for the subject
• Male subjects of childbearing potential must agree to use an adequate method of contraception starting with the first dose of study therapy through 120 days after the last dose of study therapy * Note: abstinence is acceptable if this is the usual lifestyle and preferred contraception for the subject
• Patient has voluntarily agreed to participate by giving written informed consent
• Concomitant use of bisphosphonates or RANK-ligand inhibitors is allowed

Exclusion Criteria

• Patient who has had radiotherapy within 1 week (or unresolved radiation-related toxicities), chemotherapy within 2 weeks or 5 half-lives, whichever is longer (6 weeks for nitrosoureas, mitomycin C or bevacizumab), anti-cancer monoclonal antibody for direct anti-neoplastic treatment within 3 weeks, or who has not recovered from toxicity due to previous agents administered. If the patient has residual toxicity from prior treatment, toxicity must be =< grade 1 (except for neuropathy and alopecia)
• > 2 lines of prior chemotherapy in the metastatic setting
• Serum lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) > 1.5 x institutional ULN
• Patients less than 2 weeks post major surgical procedure (all surgical wounds must be fully healed). For the purpose of this criterion, a major surgical procedure is defined as one requiring the administration of general anesthesia
• Patient is currently participating in a study with an investigational compound or device
• Patient has known active central nervous system (CNS) metastases and/or carcinomatous meningitis. However, patients with CNS metastases who have completed a course of therapy would be eligible for the study provided they are clinically stable for at least 4 weeks prior to entry as defined as: (1) no evidence of new or enlarging CNS metastasis on brain imaging within 4 weeks of enrollment (2) off steroids for 2 weeks. Patients with clinically insignificant brain metastases that do not require treatment are eligible
• Patient has a primary central nervous system tumor
• Patient has known hypersensitivity to the components of study drug or its analogs
• Patient has a history or current evidence of clinically significant heart disease including: * Clinically significant congestive heart failure, unstable angina pectoris * Clinically significant cardiac arrhythmia * Myocardial infarction during the last 6 months, and/or a current electrocardiogram (ECG) tracing that is abnormal in the opinion of the treating Investigator * Corrected QT interval (QTc) prolongation > 480 msec (Bazett's formula) * Congenitally long QT syndrome, and/or current anti-arrhythmic therapy
• Patient with evidence of clinically significant bradycardia (heart rate [HR] < 50), or a history of clinically significant bradyarrhythmias such as sick sinus syndrome, 2nd degree atrioventricular (AV) block (Mobitz type 2), patient with uncontrolled hypertension (>= 140/90 mmHg). Patients who are controlled on antihypertensive medication will be allowed to enter the study
• Patient has a history or current evidence of any condition, therapy, or lab abnormality that might confound the results of the study, interfere with the patient’s participation for the full duration of the study, or is not in the best interest of the patient to participate, in the opinion of the treating investigator
• Patient has known psychiatric or substance abuse disorders that would interfere with cooperation with the requirements of the trial
• Patient is, at the time of signing informed consent, a regular user of any illicit drugs or had a recent history (within the last year) of drug or alcohol abuse
• Patient is pregnant or breastfeeding, or expecting to conceive or father children within the projected duration of the study
• Patient is known to be human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive
• Patient has known history of active hepatitis A, B, or C
• Patients who have known allergic reactions to IV contrast dye despite standard prophylaxis
• Patients who require medications that are strong CYP3A4 inhibitors or inducers
• Patients who have discontinued any of these medications must have a wash-out period of at least 5 days or at least 5 half-lives of the drug (whichever is longer) prior to the first dose of dinaciclib
• Patients requiring warfarin therapy are excluded, low molecular weight heparin is permitted
• Patient has a diagnosis of immunodeficiency or is receiving ongoing immunosuppressive therapy, including systemic or enteric corticosteroids except for non-systemically absorbed treatments (such as inhaled or topical steroid therapy for asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, allergic rhinitis). Patient must be off systemic steroid or any other form of immunosuppressive therapy within 7 days prior to first dose of trial treatment
• Patient is diagnosed with active autoimmune disease that has required systemic treatment in past 2 years (i.e., with use of disease modifying agents, corticosteroids or immunosuppressive drugs). Note: replacement therapy (e.g., thyroxine, insulin, or physiologic corticosteroid replacement therapy for adrenal or pituitary insufficiency) is not considered a form of systemic treatment
• Patient has history of interstitial lung disease or known history of, or any evidence of active, noninfectious pneumonitis
• Patient has history of severe allergic, anaphylactic, or other hypersensitivity reactions to chimeric or humanized antibodies or prior allogeneic bone marrow transplantation or prior solid organ transplantation
• Has received a live vaccine within 30 days of planned start of study therapy * Note: seasonal influenza vaccines for injection are generally inactivated flu vaccines and are allowed; however intranasal influenza vaccines (e.g., Flu-Mist) are live attenuated vaccines, and are not allowed