This phase II trial tests how well benralizumab works in preventing skin rashes caused by alpelisib in patients with breast cancer that has spread from where it first started (primary site) to other places in the body (metastatic). A standard treatment for metastatic breast cancer is hormone therapy, which are drugs that decrease the activity of hormones to slow the growth of cancer cells, in combination with the drug alpelisib. Alpelisib can cause side effects such as rash. Eosinophils are white blood cells that are a normal part of the immune system. High levels of eosinophils have been associated with itchy or painful skin reactions to medications. Benralizumab blocks a protein in the blood that helps eosinophils survive, reducing the number of eosinophils in the blood. Giving benralizumab may help prevent rashes in patients with metastatic breast cancer starting alpelisib.
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PRIMARY OBJECTIVE:
I. To determine if prophylactic IL-5 receptor inhibition results in a lower incidence of alpelisib rash when compared to historical controls.
SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:
I. To determine the effect of prophylactic anti-IL-5 receptor inhibition on alpelisib dose interruption or modification when compared to historical controls as determined by relative dose intensity (RDI) during the initial 4 weeks of therapy (4W-RDI).
II. To determine the effect of prophylactic anti-IL-5 receptor inhibition on quality of life when compared to historical controls using the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy–Breast (FACT-B) and the Patient Reported Outcome (PRO)-Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE).
III. To determine the effect of prophylactic anti-IL-5 receptor inhibition on cumulative steroid dose when compared to historical controls.
IV. To determine the effect of prophylactic anti-IL-5 receptor inhibition on time to development of alpelisib grade >= 2 rash when compared to historical controls.
V. To determine the safety of anti-IL-5 receptor inhibition and historical controls in patients receiving alpelisib, defined as adverse events definitely, possibly or probably related to anti-IL-5 receptor inhibition or historical controls.
VI. To determine the effect of anti-IL-5 receptor and historical controls on non-skin alpelisib-related adverse events (eg. nausea, diarrhea, vomiting, anorexia, fatigue, weight loss).
VII. To determine the overall response rate (ORR) and progression free survival (PFS) at 6 and 12 months post treatment initiation.
EXPLORATORY OBJECTIVES:
I. Explore the change in serum and skin inflammatory markers from baseline to 4 weeks (using non-invasive skin tape for skin).
II. Explore the change in histologic markers from skin biopsies in patients with rash, including eosinophil counts, CD4/8 count, IL-5, PI3 kinase pathway activation; at rash onset and at 28 days.
OUTLINE:
Patients receive benralizumab subcutaneously (SC) 1 to 7 days prior to alpelisib initiation. Patients then receive standard of care fulvestrant (or aromatase inhibitors [AIs]) intramuscularly (IM) on days 1, 15, and 29 and then once monthly thereafter and alpelisib orally (PO) once daily (QD) beginning with the first fulvestrant or AIs dose (day 1). Patients continue alpelisib and fulvestrant or AIs until disease progression or unacceptable toxicity as determined by their treating clinician. Patients also undergo total body photography and collection of blood samples throughout the trial.
After completion of study treatment, patients are followed up at days 90 and 365.
Lead OrganizationMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Principal InvestigatorAlina Markova