Effect of prophylaxis on neratinib-associated diarrhea and tolerability in patients with HER2+ early-stage breast cancer: Phase II CONTROL trial.

Authors

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Carlos Hernando Barcenas

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

Carlos Hernando Barcenas , Sara A. Hurvitz , Jack A. Di Palma , Ron Bose , Arlene Chan , Amy Jo Chien , Cindy Farrell , Daniel Hunt , Leanne McCulloch , Amy Kupic , Debu Tripathy , Hope S. Rugo

Organizations

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, University of South Alabama College of Medicine, Mobile, AL, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, Breast Cancer Research Centre-WA & Curtin University, Perth, Australia, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, Puma Biotechnology Inc, Los Angeles, CA, University of California San Francisco Comprehensive Cancer Center, San Francisco, CA

Research Funding

Pharmaceutical/Biotech Company

Background: CONTROL (clinicaltrials.gov: NCT02400476) is an open-label, sequential-cohort, phase II study investigating the effectiveness of prophylaxis or dose escalation in preventing diarrhea and improving tolerability of neratinib, an irreversible pan-HER tyrosine kinase inhibitor. Neratinib has demonstrated benefit as an extended adjuvant therapy for early-stage HER2+ breast cancer. Various prophylactic agents are being studied in adult patients treated with oral neratinib (240 mg/day for 1 year) after trastuzumab-based adjuvant therapy. Methods: Patients (n = 485) were enrolled into cohorts investigating antidiarrheal prophylaxis for 1–2 cycles (28 days) with the following agents: loperamide (n = 137); loperamide + budesonide (n = 64); loperamide + colestipol (n = 136); loperamide prn + colestipol (n = 104). An additional cohort assessing loperamide prn + neratinib dose escalation with no mandatory prophylaxis (n = 44) is ongoing. Adverse events were graded according to NCI-CTCAE v4.0. The primary endpoint was incidence of grade ≥3 diarrhea. Data cut-off: 14 Jan 2019. Results: As shown in the table, all prophylactic regimens reduce the incidence of Grade 3 diarrhea and drug discontinuation compared with the prior ExteNET trial [Martin et al. 2017]. The median cumulative duration of Grade 3 or higher diarrhea spanned from 2.0 to 3.5 days across regimens for the entire treatment period. No Grade 4 diarrhea was reported. Conclusions: The addition of budesonide or colestipol to loperamide prophylaxis given for 1–2 cycles reduces the severity and duration of diarrhea in patients treated with neratinib, thereby improving tolerability. Updated data for the dose-escalation cohort will be presented at the meeting. Clinical trial information: NCT02400476

Loperamide
(n = 137)
Loperamide + budesonide
(n = 64)
Loperamide + colestipol
(n = 136)
Loperamide prn + colestipol
(n = 104)
Neratinib dose escalation
(n = 44)
Diarrhea, %
Grade 124.125.027.229.843.2
Grade 224.832.834.632.725.0
Grade 330.728.120.631.713.6
Diarrhea leading to discontinuation, %20.410.93.75.82.3
Hospitalization (due to diarrhea), %1.50000
Discontinuation of study treatment (any cause), %44.620.328.726.013.6

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Abstract Details

Meeting

2019 ASCO Annual Meeting

Session Type

Poster Session

Session Title

Breast Cancer—Local/Regional/Adjuvant

Track

Breast Cancer

Sub Track

Adjuvant Therapy

Clinical Trial Registration Number

NCT02400476

Citation

J Clin Oncol 37, 2019 (suppl; abstr 548)

DOI

10.1200/JCO.2019.37.15_suppl.548

Abstract #

548

Poster Bd #

40

Abstract Disclosures