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A Study Evaluating Talazoparib (BMN 673), a PARP Inhibitor, in Advanced and/or Metastatic Breast Cancer Patients With BRCA Mutation (EMBRACA Study)
Trial Status: complete
The purpose of this open-label, 2:1 randomized phase III trial is to compare the safety
and efficacy of talazoparib (also known as BMN 673) versus protocol-specific physician's
choice in patients who have locally advanced and/or metastatic breast cancer with
germline BRCA mutations.
Inclusion Criteria
Histologically or cytologically confirmed carcinoma of the breast
Locally advanced breast cancer that is not amenable to curative radiation or surgical cure and/or metastatic disease appropriate for systemic single cytotoxic chemotherapy
Documentation of a deleterious, suspected deleterious, or pathogenic germline BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation from Myriad Genetics or other laboratory approved by the Sponsor
No more than 3 prior chemotherapy-inclusive regimens for locally advanced and/or metastatic disease (no limit on prior hormonal therapies or targeted anticancer therapies such as mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) or CDK4/6 inhibitors, immune-oncology agents, tyrosine kinase inhibitors, or monoclonal antibodies against CTL4 or VEGF)
Prior treatment with a taxane and/or anthracycline in the neoadjuvant, adjuvant, locally advanced, or metastatic setting unless medically contraindicated
Have measurable or non-measurable, evaluable disease by the revised response evaluation criteria in solid tumors (RECIST) v.1.1
Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status ≤ 2
Exclusion Criteria
First-line locally advanced and/or metastatic breast cancer with no prior adjuvant chemotherapy unless the Investigator determines that one of the 4 cytotoxic chemotherapy agents in the control arm would otherwise be offered to the subject
Prior treatment with a PARP inhibitor (not including iniparib)
Not a candidate for treatment with at least 1 of the treatments of protocol-specific physician's choice (ie, capecitabine, eribulin, gemcitabine, vinorelbine)
Subjects who had objective disease progression while receiving platinum chemotherapy administered for locally advanced or metastatic disease; subjects who received low-dose platinum therapy administered in combination with radiation therapy are not excluded
Subjects who have received platinum in the adjuvant or neoadjuvant setting are eligible; however, subjects may not have relapsed within 6 months of the last dose of prior platinum therapy
Cytotoxic chemotherapy within 14 days before randomization
Radiation or anti-hormonal therapy or other targeted anticancer therapy within 14 days before randomization
HER2 positive breast cancer
Active inflammatory breast cancer
CNS metastases
Exception: Adequately treated brain metastases documented by baseline CT or MRI scan that has not progressed since previous scans and that does not require corticosteroids (except prednisone ≤ 5 mg/day or equivalent) for management of CNS symptoms. A repeat CT or MRI following the identification of CNS metastases (obtained at least 2 weeks after definitive therapy) must document adequately treated brain metastases.
Subjects with leptomeningeal carcinomatosis are not permitted
Prior malignancy except for any of the following:
Prior BRCA-associated cancer as long as there is no current evidence of the cancer
Carcinoma in situ or non-melanoma skin cancer
A cancer diagnosed and definitively treated ≥ 5 years before randomization with no subsequent evidence of recurrence
Known to be human immunodeficiency virus positive
Known active hepatitis C virus, or known active hepatitis B virus
Known hypersensitivity to any of the components of talazoparib
Additional locations may be listed on ClinicalTrials.gov for NCT01945775.
Locations matching your search criteria
United States
California
Los Angeles
Translational Research In Oncology - US Inc (TRIO-US)