The Role of Bexarotene in Inducing Susceptibility to Chemotherapy in Metastatic TNBC

Trial number:
NCT04664829
Trial phase:
1
Study type:
Chemotherapy
Overall status:
Recruiting

Study start date

October, 2020

Scientific title

Metastatic Triple-Negative Taxane-Resistant Breast Cancer: Investigating the Role of Bexarotene in Inducing Susceptibility to Chemotherapy by Differentiating Cancer Cells From a Mesenchymal-Like to an Epithelial-Like Phenotype

Summary

Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is biologically aggressive and has limited systemic treatment options, often compounded by treatment resistance. Cell state transitions, e.g. epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) govern cancer cell behaviour. The investigators hypothesize that by inducing change in cell state change, TNBC cells that have manifested taxane-resistance will be more sensitized to subsequent chemotherapy.

Patients with histologically or cytologically proven metastatic TNBCPatients whose TNBC has progressed after prior taxane therapy in the (neo)adjuvant or metastatic setting, and have not received Capecitabine or 5-fluorouracil Females aged 21 years and older ECOG performance status 0 or 1 Life expectancy greater than three months Patients have normal organ and marrow function Site(s) of disease amenable to serial bedside biopsies before, during and after study treatment

Study design

Primary purpose: Treatment, Allocation: N/A, Intervention model: Single Group Assignment, Masking: None (Open Label),

Conditions

Metastatic Triple-Negative Breast Carcinoma

Other study ID numbers

BEXMET

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