Palbociclib, Bosutinib, and Fulvestrant for the Treatment of Metastatic Hormone Receptor Positive and HER2 Negative Breast Cancer Refractory to Aromatase Inhibitors

Inclusion Criteria

• Age >= 18 years
• Signed informed consent obtained prior to any study specific assessments and procedures
• Premenopausal and postmenopausal women
• Biopsy proven diagnosis of estrogen receptor (ER) and/or progesterone receptor (PR) positive, HER2 negative, advanced breast cancer (locoregionally recurrent or metastatic disease), either from the primary or a metastatic site. * ER, PR and HER2 measurements should be performed according to institutional guidelines, in a Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act (CLIA)-approved setting. * Breast cancer is ER-positive and/or PR-positive tumor (>= 1% positive stained cells) based on local CLIA-certified laboratory results * HER2-negative breast cancer: ** Cut-off values for positive/negative staining should be in accordance with current ASCO/CAP (American Society of Clinical Oncology/College of American Pathologists) guidelines. ** Patients with equivocal HER2 in situ hybridization results according to current ASCO/CAP guidelines are eligible, as long as they have not received and are not scheduled to receive anti-HER2 treatment.
• A formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tumor tissue block from diagnostic biopsy must be transmitted to MedStar Georgetown University Hospital Pathology Department repository and confirmation of receipt must be available prior to initiation of treatment on study
• Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status 0-1
• Must have received no more than 3 lines of chemotherapy for the treatment of breast cancer in the metastatic setting and be progressive on at least one aromatase inhibitor and one CDK 4/6 inhibitor
• Pregnancy must be ruled out * Serum or urine pregnancy test must be negative within 14 days of treatment start in women of childbearing potential. * Pregnancy testing does not need to be pursued in patients who are judged as postmenopausal before enrollment, or who have undergone bilateral oophorectomy, total hysterectomy, or bilateral tubal ligation. * Patients may be considered postmenopausal in case that one of the following criteria applies: ** Prior bilateral oophorectomy, OR ** Age >= 60 years, OR ** Age < 60 years with intact uterus and amenorrhoeic for >= 12 consecutive months prior to chemotherapy and/or endocrine therapy exposure, OR ** Age < 60 years hysterectomized and follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) and plasma estradiol levels in the post-menopausal range according to local policies prior to chemotherapy and/or endocrine therapy exposure
• Willingness to undergo adequate contraception if childbearing potential * Women of childbearing potential must use adequate contraception for the duration of protocol treatment and for 3 months after the last treatment with palbociclib/bosutinib * Adequate contraception is defined as one highly effective form (i.e. abstinence, [fe]male sterilization) OR two effective forms (e.g. non-hormonal intrauterine device [IUD] and condom / occlusive cap with spermicidal foam / gel / film / cream / suppository)
• Patients must be able and willing to swallow and retain oral medication
• Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) >= 1,500/mm^3
• Platelets >= 100,000/mm^3
• Hemoglobin >= 9 g/dL
• Aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and/or alanine aminotransferase (ALT) =< 3 x upper limit of normal (ULN)
• Alkaline phosphatase =< 2.5 x ULN (=< 5.0 x ULN if bone metastases present)
• Total serum bilirubin =< 1.5 x ULN
• Serum creatinine within normal institutional limits or creatinine clearance >= 50 mL/min/1.73 m^2 for patients with serum creatinine levels above institutional ULN
• Resolution of all acute toxic effects of prior therapy, including radiotherapy to grade =< 1 (except toxicities not considered a safety risk for the patient) and recovery from surgical procedures
• Patients who are willing and able to comply with scheduled visits, treatment plan, laboratory tests, and other study procedures
• Patient has discontinued all previous therapies for cancer (including cytotoxic chemotherapy, targeted therapy [including, but not limited to, everolimus], radiotherapy, immunotherapy, and investigational therapy) for at least 14 days prior to receiving study drugs and recovered from the acute effects of therapy (treatment-related toxicity resolved to baseline) except for residual alopecia or peripheral neuropathy

Exclusion Criteria

• Concurrent therapy with other investigational products
• Current use of food or drugs known to be potent inhibitors or inducers of CYP3A4
• Known hypersensitivity to fulvestrant, palbociclib or bosutinib, or to any of their excipients
• Uncontrolled intercurrent illness including (active infection, symptomatic congestive heart failure, unstable angina pectoris, cardiac arrhythmia, diabetes, pulmonary embolism in the past 6 months, or psychiatric illness/social situations that would limit compliance with study requirements)
• Active uncontrolled or symptomatic brain metastases. Previously treated and clinically stable, as per investigator’s judgment, brain metastases are permitted
• Unable to comply with study requirements
• Presence of a condition that would interfere with enteric absorption of palbociclib/bosutinib
• Pregnant women, or women of childbearing potential without a negative pregnancy test (serum or urine) within 14 days prior to starting treatment on study * Breastfeeding must be discontinued prior to study entry
• Patients on combination antiretroviral therapy, i.e. those who are human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive (potential for pharmacokinetic interactions or increased immunosuppression with palbociclib)
• Patients with clinically significant history of liver disease, including viral or other known hepatitis, current alcohol abuse, or cirrhosis, etc.
• Patients on chronic anticoagulation (fulvestrant is IM injection) with the exception of patients enrolling in dose level A2 (no fulvestrant)