Metastatic Breast Cancer
Conditions
Brief summary
This Phase II, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled multicenter study will investigate the efficacy and safety of trastuzumab emtansine in combination with atezolizumab or atezolizumab-placebo in participants with HER2-positive locally advanced or metastatic BC who have received prior trastuzumab and taxane based therapy, either alone or in combination, and/or who have progressed within 6 months after completing adjuvant therapy.
Interventions
Atezolizumab 1200 mg IV infusion
Trastuzumab emtansine 3.6 mg/kg IV infusion
Placebo matched to atezolizumab
Sponsors
Study design
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
* Archival tumor samples must be obtained from primary and/or metastatic sites * Able to submit tumor tissue that is evaluable for programmed death- ligand 1 (PD-L1) expression * HER-2 positive BC as defined by an immunohistochemistry score of 3 or gene amplified by in-situ hybridization as defined by a ratio of greater than or equal to (\>=) 2.0 for the number of HER2 gene copies to the number of chromosome 17 copies * Histologically or cytologically confirmed invasive BC: incurable, unresectable, locally advanced BC previously treated with multimodality therapy or metastatic BC * Prior treatment for BC in the: adjuvant; unresectable locally advanced; or metastatic settings; which must include both, a taxane and trastuzumab (alone or in combination with another agent) * Progression must have occurred during or after most recent treatment for locally advanced/metastatic BC or within 6 months after completing adjuvant therapy * Participants must have measurable disease that is evaluable as per RECIST v1.1 * Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group Performance Status of 0 or 1 * Negative serum pregnancy test within 7 days of enrollment for pre-menopausal women and for women less than 12 months after the onset of menopause * Use of highly effective method of contraception as defined by the protocol
Exclusion criteria
* Prior treatment with trastuzumab emtansine, cluster of differentiation 137 agonists, anti-programmed death-1, or anti-PD-L1 therapeutic antibody or pathway-targeting agents * Receipt of any anti-cancer drug/biologic or investigational treatment within 21 days prior to Cycle 1 Day 1 except hormone therapy, which can be given up to 7 days prior to Cycle 1 Day 1; recovery of treatment related toxicity consistent with other eligibility criteria * Radiation therapy within 2 weeks prior to Cycle 1, Day 1 * History of exposure to the cumulative doses of anthracyclines * History of other malignancy within the previous 5 years, except for appropriately treated carcinoma in situ of the cervix, non-melanoma skin carcinoma, Stage I uterine cancer, or participants who have undergone potentially curative therapy with no evidence of disease and are deemed by the treating physician to be at low risk for recurrence * Cardiopulmonary dysfunction, symptomatic pleural effusion, pericardial effusion, or ascites * Participants with severe infection within 4 weeks prior to randomization, including but not limited to hospitalization for complications of infection, bacteremia, or severe pneumonia * Current severe, uncontrolled systemic disease * Major surgical procedure or significant traumatic injury within 28 days prior to randomization or anticipation of the need for major surgery during the course of study treatment * Clinically significant history of liver disease, including cirrhosis, current alcohol abuse, autoimmune hepatic disorders, sclerosis cholangitis or active infection with human immunodeficiency virus, hepatitis B virus, or hepatitis C virus * Need for current chronic corticosteroid therapy (\>=10 mg of prednisone per day or an equivalent dose of other anti-inflammatory corticosteroids) * Spinal cord compression not definitively treated with surgery and/or radiation, or previously diagnosed and treated spinal cord compression without evidence that disease has been clinically stable for greater than (\>) 2 weeks prior to randomization * Participants with known central nervous system disease * Leptomeningeal disease * History of autoimmune disease * Prior allogeneic stem cell or solid organ transplantation * Active tuberculosis * Receipt of a live, attenuated vaccine within 4 weeks prior to randomization or anticipation that such a live, attenuated vaccine will be required during the study * Treatment with systemic immunostimulatory agents within 4 weeks or five half-lives of the drug (whichever is shorter) prior to randomization * Treatment with systemic corticosteroids or other systemic immunosuppressive medications within 2 weeks prior to randomization, or anticipated requirement for systemic immunosuppressive medications during the trial * Participants who are breastfeeding, or intending to become pregnant during the study
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Progression-Free Survival (PFS) as Determined by Investigator's Tumor Assessment Using Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) Version 1.1 (v1.1) | Baseline up to approximately 15 months | PFS was defined as the time from randomization to the first occurrence of disease progression or death from any cause, whichever occurred first, on the basis of investigator assessments. Progression was defined as at least a 20% increase in the sum of diameters of target lesions with an absolute increase of at least 5 millimeter (mm) or the appearance of one or more new lesions. |
| Percentage of Participants With Adverse Events | Baseline up to study completion, approximately 40 months | An adverse event is any untoward medical occurrence in a participant administered a pharmaceutical product and which does not necessarily have to have a causal relationship with the treatment. An adverse event can therefore be any unfavorable and unintended sign (including an abnormal laboratory finding, for example), symptom, or disease temporally associated with the use of a pharmaceutical product, whether or not considered related to the pharmaceutical product. Preexisting conditions which worsen during a study are also considered as adverse events. |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Duration of OR as Determined by Investigator's Tumor Assessment Using RECIST v1.1 | Baseline up to approximately 15 months | Duration of OR was defined as the time from the first tumor assessment that was judged to indicate that the patient had an objective response to the time of first documented disease progression using RECIST v1.1 per investigator assessment or death from any cause, whichever occurred first. |
| Maximum Serum Concentration (Cmax) of Trastuzumab Emtansine | Pre-infusion (0 hour [h]), 30 minutes (min) after end of infusion (EOI) (over 90 min) on Day 1 Cycles 1 and 4; pre-infusion (0 h) on Day 1 Cycle 2 (each cycle = 21 days); at any time during study treatment/early discontinuation visit (approx. 40 months) | Average post infusion Trastuzumab Emtansine concentration |
| Cmax of Deacetyl Mercapto 1-Oxopropyl Maytansine (DM1) | Pre-infusion (0 h) on Day 1 Cycle 1 and 30 min after EOI (over 90 min) on Day 1 Cycles 1 and 4 (each cycle = 21 days) | Average post infusion Deacetyl Mercapto 1-Oxopropyl Maytansine concentration of trastuzumab emtansine infusion |
| Overall Survival (OS) | Baseline up to study completion or death, whichever occurs first, approximately 40 months | OS was defined as the time from randomization to death from any cause. |
| Cmax of Atezolizumab | Pre-infusion (0 h), 30 min after EOI (over 60 min) on Day 1 Cycles 1 and 4; pre-infusion (0 h) on Day 1 Cycles 2, 3, 8, and every 8 cycles thereafter (each cycle=21 days) up to 120 days after treatment completion/early discontinuation (approx. 40 months) | Average post infusion atezolizumab concentration |
| Percentage of Participants With Anti-therapeutic Antibodies (ATAs) to Atezolizumab | Pre-infusion (0 h) on Day 1 Cycles 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, and every 8 cycles thereafter (each cycle = 21 days) up to 120 days after treatment completion or early discontinuation (approximately 40 months) | ATAs are antibodies that inactivate the therapeutic effects of Atezolizumab. Patients are considered to be ATA positive if they are ATA negative at baseline but develop an ATA response following study drug administration (treatment-induced ATA response), or if they are ATA positive at baseline and the titer of one or more post-baseline samples is at least 4-fold greater (i.e., ≥ 0.60 titer units) than the titer of the baseline sample (treatment-enhanced ATA response). |
| Percentage of Participants With ATAs to Trastuzumab Emtansine | Pre-infusion (0 h) on Day 1 Cycles 1 and 4 (each cycle = 21 days); and at any time during study treatment/early discontinuation visit (approximately 40 months) | ATAs are antibodies that inactivate the therapeutic effects of Trastuzumab Emtansine. Patients are considered to be ATA positive if they are ATA negative at baseline but develop an ATA response following study drug administration (treatment-induced ATA response), or if they are ATA positive at baseline and the titer of one or more post-baseline samples is at least 4-fold greater (i.e., ≥ 0.60 titer units) than the titer of the baseline sample (treatment-enhanced ATA response). |
| Cmax of Total Trastuzumab | Pre-infusion (0 h), 30 min after EOI (over 90 min) on Day 1 Cycles 1 and 4; pre-infusion (0 h) on Day 1 Cycle 2 (each cycle = 21 days) | — |
| Percentage of Participants With Objective Response (OR) as Determined by Investigator's Tumor Assessment Using RECIST v1.1 | Baseline up to approximately 15 months | An OR was defined as a complete or partial response determined on 2 consecutive occasions ≥ 4 weeks apart using Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) v1.1. Complete response was defined as the disappearance of all target and non-target lesions. Any pathological lymph nodes (whether target or non-target) must be \< 10 mm on the short axis. Partial response was defined as at least a 30% decrease in the sum of diameters of target lesions, taking as reference the baseline sum. Participants who had no post-baseline tumor assessment were counted as non-responders. |
Countries
Australia, Canada, Germany, Italy, South Korea, Spain, Taiwan, United Kingdom, United States
Participant flow
Participants by arm
| Arm | Count |
|---|---|
| Trastuzumab Emtansine + Atezolizumab Atezolizumab 1200 milligrams (mg) intravenous (IV) infusion followed by trastuzumab emtansine 3.6 milligrams per kilogram (mg/kg) IV infusion on Day 1 Cycle 1 and thereafter on Day 1 of each 21-day cycle until disease progression, unmanageable toxicity, or study termination by the Sponsor (up to study duration of approximately 40 months) | 133 |
| Trastuzumab Emtansine + Placebo Placebo matched to atezolizumab followed by trastuzumab emtansine 3.6 mg/kg IV infusion on Day 1 Cycle 1 and thereafter on Day 1 of each 21-day cycle until disease progression, unmanageable toxicity, or study termination by the sponsor (up to study duration of approximately 40 months) | 69 |
| Total | 202 |
Withdrawals & dropouts
| Period | Reason | FG000 | FG001 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Overall Study | Death | 39 | 20 |
| Overall Study | Lost to Follow-up | 1 | 0 |
| Overall Study | Progressive Disease | 1 | 0 |
| Overall Study | Protocol Violation | 1 | 0 |
| Overall Study | Study Terminated by Sponsor | 69 | 32 |
| Overall Study | Symptomatic Deterioration/ Clinical Progression | 0 | 1 |
| Overall Study | Withdrawal by Subject | 22 | 16 |
Baseline characteristics
| Characteristic | Trastuzumab Emtansine + Placebo | Total | Trastuzumab Emtansine + Atezolizumab |
|---|---|---|---|
| Age, Continuous | 54.4 Years STANDARD_DEVIATION 10.9 | 53.9 Years STANDARD_DEVIATION 10.3 | 53.7 Years STANDARD_DEVIATION 9.9 |
| Ethnicity (NIH/OMB) Hispanic or Latino | 1 Participants | 11 Participants | 10 Participants |
| Ethnicity (NIH/OMB) Not Hispanic or Latino | 66 Participants | 180 Participants | 114 Participants |
| Ethnicity (NIH/OMB) Unknown or Not Reported | 2 Participants | 11 Participants | 9 Participants |
| Programmed Cell-Death Ligand 1 Immunohistochemistry status PD-L1 negative | 42 Number of Participants | 118 Number of Participants | 76 Number of Participants |
| Programmed Cell-Death Ligand 1 Immunohistochemistry status PD-L1 positive | 27 Number of Participants | 84 Number of Participants | 57 Number of Participants |
| Race (NIH/OMB) American Indian or Alaska Native | 0 Participants | 0 Participants | 0 Participants |
| Race (NIH/OMB) Asian | 23 Participants | 72 Participants | 49 Participants |
| Race (NIH/OMB) Black or African American | 1 Participants | 6 Participants | 5 Participants |
| Race (NIH/OMB) More than one race | 0 Participants | 1 Participants | 1 Participants |
| Race (NIH/OMB) Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander | 0 Participants | 1 Participants | 1 Participants |
| Race (NIH/OMB) Unknown or Not Reported | 1 Participants | 6 Participants | 5 Participants |
| Race (NIH/OMB) White | 44 Participants | 116 Participants | 72 Participants |
| Region Rest of the World | 32 Number of Participants | 94 Number of Participants | 62 Number of Participants |
| Region USA | 11 Number of Participants | 32 Number of Participants | 21 Number of Participants |
| Region Western Europe | 26 Number of Participants | 76 Number of Participants | 50 Number of Participants |
| Sex: Female, Male Female | 69 Participants | 200 Participants | 131 Participants |
| Sex: Female, Male Male | 0 Participants | 2 Participants | 2 Participants |
Adverse events
| Event type | EG000 affected / at risk | EG001 affected / at risk |
|---|---|---|
| deaths Total, all-cause mortality | 42 / 133 | 22 / 67 |
| other Total, other adverse events | 130 / 133 | 62 / 67 |
| serious Total, serious adverse events | 52 / 133 | 16 / 67 |
Outcome results
Percentage of Participants With Adverse Events
An adverse event is any untoward medical occurrence in a participant administered a pharmaceutical product and which does not necessarily have to have a causal relationship with the treatment. An adverse event can therefore be any unfavorable and unintended sign (including an abnormal laboratory finding, for example), symptom, or disease temporally associated with the use of a pharmaceutical product, whether or not considered related to the pharmaceutical product. Preexisting conditions which worsen during a study are also considered as adverse events.
Time frame: Baseline up to study completion, approximately 40 months
Population: The safety analysis population consisted of all participants who received at least one dose of study drug. Safety analyses were based on the treatment that participants actually received.
| Arm | Measure | Value (NUMBER) |
|---|---|---|
| Trastuzumab Emtansine + Placebo | Percentage of Participants With Adverse Events | 97.0 percentage of participants |
| Trastuzumab Emtansine + Atezolizumab | Percentage of Participants With Adverse Events | 99.2 percentage of participants |
Progression-Free Survival (PFS) as Determined by Investigator's Tumor Assessment Using Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) Version 1.1 (v1.1)
PFS was defined as the time from randomization to the first occurrence of disease progression or death from any cause, whichever occurred first, on the basis of investigator assessments. Progression was defined as at least a 20% increase in the sum of diameters of target lesions with an absolute increase of at least 5 millimeter (mm) or the appearance of one or more new lesions.
Time frame: Baseline up to approximately 15 months
Population: The intent-to-treat (ITT) population included all randomized participants grouped according to the treatment assigned at randomization.
| Arm | Measure | Value (MEDIAN) |
|---|---|---|
| Trastuzumab Emtansine + Placebo | Progression-Free Survival (PFS) as Determined by Investigator's Tumor Assessment Using Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) Version 1.1 (v1.1) | 6.8 months |
| Trastuzumab Emtansine + Atezolizumab | Progression-Free Survival (PFS) as Determined by Investigator's Tumor Assessment Using Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) Version 1.1 (v1.1) | 8.2 months |
Cmax of Atezolizumab
Average post infusion atezolizumab concentration
Time frame: Pre-infusion (0 h), 30 min after EOI (over 60 min) on Day 1 Cycles 1 and 4; pre-infusion (0 h) on Day 1 Cycles 2, 3, 8, and every 8 cycles thereafter (each cycle=21 days) up to 120 days after treatment completion/early discontinuation (approx. 40 months)
Population: PK population included all participants who received at least one dose of trastuzumab emtansine with at least one post-dose concentration data point.
| Arm | Measure | Value (GEOMETRIC_MEAN) | Dispersion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trastuzumab Emtansine + Placebo | Cmax of Atezolizumab | 626 ug/mL | Geometric Coefficient of Variation 23 |
Cmax of Deacetyl Mercapto 1-Oxopropyl Maytansine (DM1)
Average post infusion Deacetyl Mercapto 1-Oxopropyl Maytansine concentration of trastuzumab emtansine infusion
Time frame: Pre-infusion (0 h) on Day 1 Cycle 1 and 30 min after EOI (over 90 min) on Day 1 Cycles 1 and 4 (each cycle = 21 days)
Population: PK population included all participants who received at least one dose of trastuzumab emtansine with at least one post-dose concentration data point.
| Arm | Measure | Value (GEOMETRIC_MEAN) | Dispersion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trastuzumab Emtansine + Placebo | Cmax of Deacetyl Mercapto 1-Oxopropyl Maytansine (DM1) | 3.19 ng/mL | Geometric Coefficient of Variation 84.7 |
| Trastuzumab Emtansine + Atezolizumab | Cmax of Deacetyl Mercapto 1-Oxopropyl Maytansine (DM1) | 4.21 ng/mL | Geometric Coefficient of Variation 89.5 |
Cmax of Total Trastuzumab
Time frame: Pre-infusion (0 h), 30 min after EOI (over 90 min) on Day 1 Cycles 1 and 4; pre-infusion (0 h) on Day 1 Cycle 2 (each cycle = 21 days)
Population: PK population included all participants who received at least one dose of trastuzumab emtansine with at least one post-dose concentration data point.
| Arm | Measure | Value (GEOMETRIC_MEAN) | Dispersion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trastuzumab Emtansine + Placebo | Cmax of Total Trastuzumab | 86.5 ug/mL | Geometric Coefficient of Variation 26.4 |
| Trastuzumab Emtansine + Atezolizumab | Cmax of Total Trastuzumab | 79.5 ug/mL | Geometric Coefficient of Variation 58.3 |
Duration of OR as Determined by Investigator's Tumor Assessment Using RECIST v1.1
Duration of OR was defined as the time from the first tumor assessment that was judged to indicate that the patient had an objective response to the time of first documented disease progression using RECIST v1.1 per investigator assessment or death from any cause, whichever occurred first.
Time frame: Baseline up to approximately 15 months
Population: The ITT population included all randomized participants grouped according to the treatment assigned at randomization. Participants with OR were considered for duration of OR.
| Arm | Measure | Value (MEDIAN) |
|---|---|---|
| Trastuzumab Emtansine + Placebo | Duration of OR as Determined by Investigator's Tumor Assessment Using RECIST v1.1 | NA Months |
| Trastuzumab Emtansine + Atezolizumab | Duration of OR as Determined by Investigator's Tumor Assessment Using RECIST v1.1 | NA Months |
Maximum Serum Concentration (Cmax) of Trastuzumab Emtansine
Average post infusion Trastuzumab Emtansine concentration
Time frame: Pre-infusion (0 hour [h]), 30 minutes (min) after end of infusion (EOI) (over 90 min) on Day 1 Cycles 1 and 4; pre-infusion (0 h) on Day 1 Cycle 2 (each cycle = 21 days); at any time during study treatment/early discontinuation visit (approx. 40 months)
Population: PK population included all participants who received at least one dose of trastuzumab emtansine with at least one post-dose concentration data point.
| Arm | Measure | Value (GEOMETRIC_MEAN) | Dispersion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trastuzumab Emtansine + Placebo | Maximum Serum Concentration (Cmax) of Trastuzumab Emtansine | 63.9 ug/mL | Geometric Coefficient of Variation 116.9 |
| Trastuzumab Emtansine + Atezolizumab | Maximum Serum Concentration (Cmax) of Trastuzumab Emtansine | 73.2 ug/mL | Geometric Coefficient of Variation 47.5 |
Overall Survival (OS)
OS was defined as the time from randomization to death from any cause.
Time frame: Baseline up to study completion or death, whichever occurs first, approximately 40 months
Population: The ITT population included all randomized participants grouped according to the treatment assigned at randomization.
| Arm | Measure | Value (MEDIAN) |
|---|---|---|
| Trastuzumab Emtansine + Placebo | Overall Survival (OS) | NA Months |
| Trastuzumab Emtansine + Atezolizumab | Overall Survival (OS) | NA Months |
Percentage of Participants With Anti-therapeutic Antibodies (ATAs) to Atezolizumab
ATAs are antibodies that inactivate the therapeutic effects of Atezolizumab. Patients are considered to be ATA positive if they are ATA negative at baseline but develop an ATA response following study drug administration (treatment-induced ATA response), or if they are ATA positive at baseline and the titer of one or more post-baseline samples is at least 4-fold greater (i.e., ≥ 0.60 titer units) than the titer of the baseline sample (treatment-enhanced ATA response).
Time frame: Pre-infusion (0 h) on Day 1 Cycles 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, and every 8 cycles thereafter (each cycle = 21 days) up to 120 days after treatment completion or early discontinuation (approximately 40 months)
Population: The analysis population included a patient with an ATA assay result from at least one post-baseline sample.
| Arm | Measure | Value (NUMBER) |
|---|---|---|
| Trastuzumab Emtansine + Placebo | Percentage of Participants With Anti-therapeutic Antibodies (ATAs) to Atezolizumab | 18.3 Percentage of participants |
Percentage of Participants With ATAs to Trastuzumab Emtansine
ATAs are antibodies that inactivate the therapeutic effects of Trastuzumab Emtansine. Patients are considered to be ATA positive if they are ATA negative at baseline but develop an ATA response following study drug administration (treatment-induced ATA response), or if they are ATA positive at baseline and the titer of one or more post-baseline samples is at least 4-fold greater (i.e., ≥ 0.60 titer units) than the titer of the baseline sample (treatment-enhanced ATA response).
Time frame: Pre-infusion (0 h) on Day 1 Cycles 1 and 4 (each cycle = 21 days); and at any time during study treatment/early discontinuation visit (approximately 40 months)
Population: The analysis population included a patient with an ATA assay result from at least one post-baseline sample
| Arm | Measure | Value (NUMBER) |
|---|---|---|
| Trastuzumab Emtansine + Placebo | Percentage of Participants With ATAs to Trastuzumab Emtansine | 0 Percentage of Participants |
| Trastuzumab Emtansine + Atezolizumab | Percentage of Participants With ATAs to Trastuzumab Emtansine | 2.3 Percentage of Participants |
Percentage of Participants With Objective Response (OR) as Determined by Investigator's Tumor Assessment Using RECIST v1.1
An OR was defined as a complete or partial response determined on 2 consecutive occasions ≥ 4 weeks apart using Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) v1.1. Complete response was defined as the disappearance of all target and non-target lesions. Any pathological lymph nodes (whether target or non-target) must be \< 10 mm on the short axis. Partial response was defined as at least a 30% decrease in the sum of diameters of target lesions, taking as reference the baseline sum. Participants who had no post-baseline tumor assessment were counted as non-responders.
Time frame: Baseline up to approximately 15 months
Population: The ITT population included all randomized participants grouped according to the treatment assigned at randomization. In Participants with baseline measurable disease were considered for OR. In the atezolizumab arm, one patient was not ORR evaluable.
| Arm | Measure | Value (NUMBER) |
|---|---|---|
| Trastuzumab Emtansine + Placebo | Percentage of Participants With Objective Response (OR) as Determined by Investigator's Tumor Assessment Using RECIST v1.1 | 43.5 Percentage of participants |
| Trastuzumab Emtansine + Atezolizumab | Percentage of Participants With Objective Response (OR) as Determined by Investigator's Tumor Assessment Using RECIST v1.1 | 45.5 Percentage of participants |