Cristina Saura1, Dominik Hlauschek2, Mafalda Oliveira3, Dimitrios Zardavas4, Anita Jallitsch-Halper2, Lorena de la Peña5, Paolo Nuciforo3, Alberto Ballestrero6, Peter Dubsky7, Janine M Lombard8, Peter Vuylsteke9, Carlos A Castaneda10, Marco Colleoni11, Giuliano Santos Borges12, Eva Ciruelos13, Monica Fornier14, Katalin Boer15, Aditya Bardia16, Timothy R Wilson17, Thomas J Stout17, Jerry Y Hsu17, Yi Shi17, Martine Piccart18, Michael Gnant19, José Baselga20, Evandro de Azambuja21. 1. Vall d'Hebrón University Hospital, Vall d'Hebrón Institute of Oncology, Barcelona, Spain; SOLTI Breast Cancer Research Group, Barcelona, Spain. Electronic address: csaura@vhio.net. 2. Austrian Breast and Colorectal Cancer Study Group, Vienna, Austria. 3. Vall d'Hebrón University Hospital, Vall d'Hebrón Institute of Oncology, Barcelona, Spain; SOLTI Breast Cancer Research Group, Barcelona, Spain. 4. Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Lawrence, NJ, USA. 5. SOLTI Breast Cancer Research Group, Barcelona, Spain. 6. University of Genoa - Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico, Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Genova; Gruppo Oncologico Italiano di Ricerca Clinica, Genova, Italy. 7. Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; Hirslanden Klinik St Anna, Breast Centre, Lucerne, Switzerland. 8. Breast Cancer Trials Australia New Zealand, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, NSW, Australia. 9. European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer, Breast Cancer Group, CHU Namur, Université Catholique de Louvain, Ottignies-Nouvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. 10. Grupo de Estudios Clinicos Oncologicos Peruano, Lima, Perú. 11. Division of Medical Senology, European Institute of Oncology, Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico and International Breast Cancer Study Group, Milan, Italy. 12. Centro de Novos Tratamentos Itajaí, Itajaí, Brazil. 13. SOLTI Breast Cancer Research Group, Barcelona, Spain; Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain. 14. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA. 15. Szent Margit Hospital, Budapest, Hungary. 16. Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. 17. Genentech Inc, South San Francisco, CA, USA. 18. Breast International Group, Brussels, Belgium; Institut Jules Bordet, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium. 19. Austrian Breast and Colorectal Cancer Study Group, Vienna, Austria; Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. 20. AstraZeneca, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA. 21. Institut Jules Bordet, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.
Abstract
BACKGROUND:Endocrine therapy-based neoadjuvant treatment for luminal breast cancer allows efficient testing of new combinations before surgery. The activation of the phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase (PI3K) pathway is a known mechanism of resistance to endocrine therapy. Taselisib is an oral, selective PI3K inhibitor with enhanced activity against PIK3CA-mutant cancer cells. The LORELEI trial tested whether taselisib in combination with letrozole would result in an increased proportion of objective responses and pathological complete responses. METHODS: In this multicentre, randomised, double-blind, parallel-cohort, placebo-controlled phase 2, study, we enrolled postmenopausal women (aged ≥18 years) with histologically confirmed, oestrogen receptor (ER)-positive, HER2-negative, stage I-III, operable breast cancer, from 85 hospitals in 22 countries worldwide. To be eligible, patients had have an Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status 0-1, adequate organ function, and had to have evaluable tumour tissue for PIK3CA genotyping. Patients were randomly assigned (1:1) by means of a permuted block algorithm (block size of four) via an interactive voice or web-based response system, to receive letrozole (2·5 mg/day orally, continuously) with either 4 mg of oral taselisib or placebo (on a 5 days-on, 2 days-off schedule) for 16 weeks, followed by surgery. Randomisation was stratified by tumour size and nodal status. Site staff, patients, and the sponsor were masked to treatment assignment. Coprimary endpoints were the proportion of patients who achieved an objective response by centrally assessed breast MRI and a locally assessed pathological complete response in the breast and axilla (ypT0/Tis, ypN0) at surgery in all randomly assigned patients and in patients with PIK3CA-mutant tumours. Analyses were done in the intention-to-treat population. This trial is registered with ClinicalTrials.gov, number NCT02273973, and is closed to accrual. FINDINGS:Between Nov 12, 2014, and Aug 12, 2016, 334 participants were enrolled and randomly assigned to receive letrozole and placebo (n=168) or letrozole and taselisib (n=166). Median follow-up was 4·9 months (IQR 4·7-5·1). The study met one of its primary endpoints: the addition of taselisib to letrozole was associated with a higher proportion of patients achieving an objective response in all randomly assigned patients (66 [39%] of 168 patients in the placebo group vs 83 [50%] of 166 in the taselisib group; odds ratio [OR] 1·55, 95% CI 1·00-2·38; p=0·049) and in the PIK3CA-mutant subset (30 [38%] of 79 vs 41 [56%] of 73; OR 2·03, 95% CI 1·06-3·88; p=0·033). No significant differences were observed in pathological complete response between the two groups, either in the overall population (three [2%] of 166 in the taselisib group vs one [1%] of 168 in the placebo group; OR 3·07 [95% CI 0·32-29·85], p=0·37) or in the PIK3CA-mutant cohort (one patient [1%) vs none [0%]; OR not estimable, p=0·48). The most common grade 3-4 adverse events in the taselisib group were gastrointestinal (13 [8%] of 167 patients), infections (eight [5%]), and skin-subcutaneous tissue disorders (eight [5%]). In the placebo group, four (2%) of 167 patients had grade 3 or worse vascular disorders, two (1%) had gastrointestinal disorders, and two (1%) patients had grade 3 or worse infections and infestations. There was no grade 4 hyperglycaemia and grade 3 cases were asymptomatic. Serious adverse events were more common in the taselisib group (eight [5%] patients with infections and seven [4%] with gastrointestinal effects) than in theplacebo group (one [1%] patient each with grade 3 postoperative wound and haematoma infection, grade 4 hypertensive encephalopathy, grade 3 acute cardiac failure, and grade 3 breast pain). One death occurred in the taselisib group, which was not considered to be treatment-related. INTERPRETATION: The increase in the proportion of patients who achieved an objective response from the addition of taselisib to endocrine therapy in a neoadjuvant setting is consistent with the clinical benefit observed in hormone receptor-positive, HER2-negative, metastatic breast cancer. FUNDING: Genentech and F Hoffmann-La Roche.
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BACKGROUND: Endocrine therapy-based neoadjuvant treatment for luminal breast cancer allows efficient testing of new combinations before surgery. The activation of the phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase (PI3K) pathway is a known mechanism of resistance to endocrine therapy. Taselisib is an oral, selective PI3K inhibitor with enhanced activity against PIK3CA-mutant cancer cells. The LORELEI trial tested whether taselisib in combination with letrozole would result in an increased proportion of objective responses and pathological complete responses. METHODS: In this multicentre, randomised, double-blind, parallel-cohort, placebo-controlled phase 2, study, we enrolled postmenopausal women (aged ≥18 years) with histologically confirmed, oestrogen receptor (ER)-positive, HER2-negative, stage I-III, operable breast cancer, from 85 hospitals in 22 countries worldwide. To be eligible, patients had have an Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status 0-1, adequate organ function, and had to have evaluable tumour tissue for PIK3CA genotyping. Patients were randomly assigned (1:1) by means of a permuted block algorithm (block size of four) via an interactive voice or web-based response system, to receive letrozole (2·5 mg/day orally, continuously) with either 4 mg of oral taselisib or placebo (on a 5 days-on, 2 days-off schedule) for 16 weeks, followed by surgery. Randomisation was stratified by tumour size and nodal status. Site staff, patients, and the sponsor were masked to treatment assignment. Coprimary endpoints were the proportion of patients who achieved an objective response by centrally assessed breast MRI and a locally assessed pathological complete response in the breast and axilla (ypT0/Tis, ypN0) at surgery in all randomly assigned patients and in patients with PIK3CA-mutant tumours. Analyses were done in the intention-to-treat population. This trial is registered with ClinicalTrials.gov, number NCT02273973, and is closed to accrual. FINDINGS: Between Nov 12, 2014, and Aug 12, 2016, 334 participants were enrolled and randomly assigned to receive letrozole and placebo (n=168) or letrozole and taselisib (n=166). Median follow-up was 4·9 months (IQR 4·7-5·1). The study met one of its primary endpoints: the addition of taselisib to letrozole was associated with a higher proportion of patients achieving an objective response in all randomly assigned patients (66 [39%] of 168 patients in the placebo group vs 83 [50%] of 166 in the taselisib group; odds ratio [OR] 1·55, 95% CI 1·00-2·38; p=0·049) and in the PIK3CA-mutant subset (30 [38%] of 79 vs 41 [56%] of 73; OR 2·03, 95% CI 1·06-3·88; p=0·033). No significant differences were observed in pathological complete response between the two groups, either in the overall population (three [2%] of 166 in the taselisib group vs one [1%] of 168 in the placebo group; OR 3·07 [95% CI 0·32-29·85], p=0·37) or in the PIK3CA-mutant cohort (one patient [1%) vs none [0%]; OR not estimable, p=0·48). The most common grade 3-4 adverse events in the taselisib group were gastrointestinal (13 [8%] of 167 patients), infections (eight [5%]), and skin-subcutaneous tissue disorders (eight [5%]). In the placebo group, four (2%) of 167 patients had grade 3 or worse vascular disorders, two (1%) had gastrointestinal disorders, and two (1%) patients had grade 3 or worse infections and infestations. There was no grade 4 hyperglycaemia and grade 3 cases were asymptomatic. Serious adverse events were more common in the taselisib group (eight [5%] patients with infections and seven [4%] with gastrointestinal effects) than in the placebo group (one [1%] patient each with grade 3 postoperative wound and haematoma infection, grade 4 hypertensive encephalopathy, grade 3 acute cardiac failure, and grade 3 breast pain). One death occurred in the taselisib group, which was not considered to be treatment-related. INTERPRETATION: The increase in the proportion of patients who achieved an objective response from the addition of taselisib to endocrine therapy in a neoadjuvant setting is consistent with the clinical benefit observed in hormone receptor-positive, HER2-negative, metastatic breast cancer. FUNDING: Genentech and F Hoffmann-La Roche.
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