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CompletedNCT01216111Updated May 19, 2020

Adjuvant Platinum and Taxane in Triple-negative Breast Cancer (PATTERN)

A Phase 3 interventional study of Paclitaxel Cisplatin and fluorouracil epirubicin cyclophosphamide and docetaxel (FEC-T) in Triple Negative Breast Cancer, sponsored by Fudan University. Completed. Open to female participants aged 18 Years to 70 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2020-05-19.

Sponsored by Fudan University · Phase 3, Interventional, and Treatment

Phase
Phase 3
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
647
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years to 70 Years
Sex
Female
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Study summary

Previous studies in Western country show that triple-negative breast cancer has aggressive clinical and pathological features compared with non-triple negative breast cancer, including onset at a young age, advanced clinical stage, high histologic and nuclear grade and more distant recurrence.

According to the characteristics of triple negative breast tumor, the TNBC patients can benefit neither from hormonal therapies nor from target therapies against Her2 receptors. The only systemic therapy currently available is chemotherapy, and prognosis remains poor. It becomes more and more important to investigate the sensitive chemotherapy regimen for triple negative patients.

Cisplatin-based regimen was active for the patients of lung cancer, colorectal cancer and ect. Triple negative breast cancer patients were more sensitive to platinum-based chemotherapy regimens according to the results of some retrospective studies.

The investigators hypothesized that paclitaxel combined with cisplatin is more sensitive to triple negative breast cancer compared with CEF followed by docetaxel.

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Eligibility Female adults(18-70 years old) are eligible if they had histologically confirmed primary breast cancer. Patients also had Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group(ECOG) Performance status of 0 or 1, absolute neutrophil count (ANC)>1500/mm3,hemoglobin >90g/dL, and platelet count >100,000/mm3,creatinine\<2.5 times the upper limit of normal(ULN)), transaminases\<3 times ULN or alkaline phosphatase\<4 times ULN if transaminases was normal, and total bilirubin \<1.5 times ULN. Exclusion criteria were active infection, pregnancy, other primary malignancy (except in situ carcinoma of cervix or adequately treated nonmelanomatous carcinoma of the skin), any documented distant metastasis and uncontrolled systemic diseases.

This study protocol was approved by institutional ethic review boards and conducted according to guidelines for good clinical practice and the Helsinki Declaration.All patients provided written informed consent.

Outcome Measures Primary Endpoint:5 year Disease Free Survival(DFS) Second Endpoints:5 year distant disease free survival (DDFS) 5 year event free survival (EFS) 5 year overall survival (OS) 5 year DFS in gBRCA1 mutation carriers and homologous recombination repair (HRR)-related gene mutation carriers

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Conditions studied

  • Triple Negative Breast Cancer

Keywords

  • triple negative breast cancer,local recurrence,distant metastasis
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In context

Breast Neoplasms

12,544 studies on the registry are indexed under Breast Neoplasms; 2,892 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 647 is above the median of 72 across 9,303 interventional studies indexed under Breast Neoplasms.

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Lead sponsor

Fudan University is the lead sponsor of 1,271 studies on the registry; 624 are open to participants now.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 70 Years
Sexes eligible
Female
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

  1. Women aged from 18 to 70 years;
  2. Histologically proven invasive unilateral breast cancer (regardless of the type);
  3. Initial clinical condition compatible with complete initial resection;
  4. No residual macro or microscopic tumor after surgical excision;
  5. Beginning of chemotherapeutic treatment no later than day 42 after the initial surgery;
  6. positive lymph node or negative lymph node with tumor size > 1.0cm
  7. Patient presenting one of the following criteria (reviewed before randomization by referent pathologist):

    Triple negative (ER-PR-Her-2-) Hormone receptor negativity is defined as ER\<1%, PR\<1% (IHC), HER2 negativity is defined as IHC 0-1+, or [IHC 2+ and FISH or CISH negative].

  8. No clinically or radiologically detectable metastases (M0);
  9. No peripheral neuropathy > 1;
  10. WHO Performance status (ECOG) of 0 or 1;
  11. Adequate recovery from recent surgery (at least one week must have elapsed from the time of a minor surgery (excluding breast biopsy); at least three weeks for major surgery);
  12. Adequate hematological function (neutrophil count ³ 2x109/l, platelet count ³ 100x 109/l, Hemoglobin > 9 g/dl);
  13. Adequate hepatic function: ASAT and ALAT ≤ 3 ULN alkaline phosphatases ≤ 2.5 ULN,total bilirubin ≤ 1,5 ULN;
  14. Adequate renal function: serum creatinine ≤ 1 ULN;
  15. Patients accepting contraception intake during the overall length of treatment if of childbearing potential;
  16. Adequate cardiac function, LEVF value > 50% by Muga scan or echocardiography;
  17. Signed written informed consent.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Bilateral breast cancer or patient with controlateral DCIS;
  2. Any metastatic impairment, including homolateral sub-clavicular node involvement,regardless of its type;
  3. Any T4 lesion (UICC1987) (cutaneous invasion, deep adherence, inflammatory breast cancer);
  4. ER+ or PR+ or Her-2 overexpression
  5. Any clinically or radiologically suspect and non-explored damage to the controlateral breast;
  6. Any chemotherapy, hormonal therapy or radiotherapy before surgery;
  7. Previous cancer (excepted cutaneous baso-cellular epithelioma or uterin peripheral ephitelioma) in the preceding 5 years, including invasive controlateral breast cancer;
  8. Patients already included in another therapeutic trial involving an experimental drug;
  9. Patients with other concurrent severe and/or uncontrolled medical disease or infection which could compromise participation in the study;
  10. LEVF \< 50% (MUGA scan or echocardiography);
  11. Clinically significant cardiovascular disease (e.g. unstable angina, congestive heart failure, uncontrolled hypertension (>150/90), myocardial infarction or cerebral vascular accidents) within 6 months prior to randomization;
  12. Known prior severe hypersensitivity reactions to agents containing Cremophor EL;
  13. Women of childbearing potential who are unwilling or unable to use an acceptable method to avoid pregnancy for the entire study period and up to 8 weeks after treatment completion;
  14. Women who are pregnant or breastfeeding. Adequate birth control measures should be taken during study treatment phase;
  15. Women with a positive pregnancy test en enrollment or prior to study drug administration;
  16. Patients with any psychological, familial, sociological or geographical condition potentially hampering compliance with the study protocol and follow-up schedule; those conditions should be discussed with the patient before registration in the trial;
  17. Individual deprived of liberty or placed under the authority of a tutor.
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Study design

Phase
Phase 3
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
647 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    6 cycles of PC adjuvant chemotherapy

    paclitaxel 80 mg/m2 and carboplatin (area under the curve \[AUC\]= 2) on day 1, 8, 15 every 28 days for six cycles

    Drug: Paclitaxel Cisplatin

  • Active comparator
    3 cycles of FEC followed by 3 cycles of Docetaxel

    fluorouracil 500 mg/m2, epirubicin 100 mg/m2, and cyclophosphamide 500 mg/m2 intravenously on day 1 every 21 days for three cycles followed by docetaxel 100 mg/m2 intravenously

    Drug: fluorouracil epirubicin cyclophosphamide and docetaxel (FEC-T)

Interventions

  • DrugPaclitaxel Cisplatin

    Paclitaxel 80 mg/m2 D1,8,15 Cisplatin AUC=2 D1,8,15 1 cycle = 28days PC\*6

  • Drugfluorouracil epirubicin cyclophosphamide and docetaxel (FEC-T)

    fluorouracil 500 mg/m2, epirubicin 100 mg/m2, and cyclophosphamide 500 mg/m2 intravenously on day 1 every 21 days for three cycles followed by docetaxel 100 mg/m2 intravenously

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. disease-free survival

    time from random assignment to first relapse (local, regional and distant), contralateral breast cancer

    Time frame: 5 year

Secondary outcomes

  1. distant disease-free survival

    time from random assignment to distant recurrence or death

    Time frame: 5 year

  2. relapse-free survival

    time from the date of randomization to local, regional, distant relapse or death

    Time frame: 5 year

  3. disease-free survival gBRCA1 mutation carriers and homologous recombination repair (HRR)-related gene mutation carriers

    Time frame: 5 year

  4. overall survival

    time from randomization until death with any cause

    Time frame: 5 year

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Study locations

No study locations are listed for this record.

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References and documents

Publications

  • Perou CM, Sorlie T, Eisen MB, van de Rijn M, Jeffrey SS, Rees CA, Pollack JR, Ross DT, Johnsen H, Akslen LA, Fluge O, Pergamenschikov A, Williams C, Zhu SX, Lonning PE, Borresen-Dale AL, Brown PO, Botstein D. Molecular portraits of human breast tumours. Nature. 2000 Aug 17;406(6797):747-52. doi: 10.1038/35021093. PubMed 10963602 ↗
  • Carey LA, Dees EC, Sawyer L, Gatti L, Moore DT, Collichio F, Ollila DW, Sartor CI, Graham ML, Perou CM. The triple negative paradox: primary tumor chemosensitivity of breast cancer subtypes. Clin Cancer Res. 2007 Apr 15;13(8):2329-34. doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-06-1109. PubMed 17438091 ↗
  • Yehiely F, Moyano JV, Evans JR, Nielsen TO, Cryns VL. Deconstructing the molecular portrait of basal-like breast cancer. Trends Mol Med. 2006 Nov;12(11):537-44. doi: 10.1016/j.molmed.2006.09.004. Epub 2006 Sep 29. PubMed 17011236 ↗
  • Reis-Filho JS, Tutt AN. Triple negative tumours: a critical review. Histopathology. 2008 Jan;52(1):108-18. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2559.2007.02889.x. PubMed 18171422 ↗
  • Cleator S, Heller W, Coombes RC. Triple-negative breast cancer: therapeutic options. Lancet Oncol. 2007 Mar;8(3):235-44. doi: 10.1016/S1470-2045(07)70074-8. PubMed 17329194 ↗
  • Dent R, Trudeau M, Pritchard KI, Hanna WM, Kahn HK, Sawka CA, Lickley LA, Rawlinson E, Sun P, Narod SA. Triple-negative breast cancer: clinical features and patterns of recurrence. Clin Cancer Res. 2007 Aug 1;13(15 Pt 1):4429-34. doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-06-3045. PubMed 17671126 ↗
  • Hayes DF, Ethier S, Lippman ME. New guidelines for reporting of tumor marker studies in breast cancer research and treatment: REMARK. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2006 Nov;100(2):237-8. doi: 10.1007/s10549-006-9253-5. Epub 2006 Jun 14. No abstract available. PubMed 16773436 ↗
  • Yu KD, Ye FG, He M, Fan L, Ma D, Mo M, Wu J, Liu GY, Di GH, Zeng XH, He PQ, Wu KJ, Hou YF, Wang J, Wang C, Zhuang ZG, Song CG, Lin XY, Toss A, Ricci F, Shen ZZ, Shao ZM. Effect of Adjuvant Paclitaxel and Carboplatin on Survival in Women With Triple-Negative Breast Cancer: A Phase 3 Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Oncol. 2020 Sep 1;6(9):1390-1396. doi: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2020.2965. PubMed 32789480 ↗
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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on May 19, 2020, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT01216111
Lead sponsor
Fudan University
Collaborators
Chinese Anti-Cancer Association
Responsible party
Zhimin Shao (professor, Fudan University) — Principal investigator
First posted
Oct 7, 2010
Start date
Jan 1, 2011
Primary completion
Apr 20, 2016
Completion
Apr 20, 2016
Last update
May 19, 2020

Oversight

FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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