A Phase 3 interventional study of Paclitaxel, Bevacizumab, liposomal doxorubicin, Capecitabine and Paclitaxel, Bevacizumab, liposomal doxorubicin, Capecitabine in Human Epidermal Growth Factor 2 Negative Carcinoma of Breast and Metastatic Breast Cancer, sponsored by Borstkanker Onderzoek Groep. Completed at 1 site in Netherlands. Open to female participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2020-01-18.
Sponsored by Borstkanker Onderzoek Groep · Phase 3, Interventional, and Treatment
Among 373 studies testing paclitaxel in Breast Neoplasms — 40 open to participants now, 60 under way, 13 of them phase 3. Paclitaxel · Breast Neoplasms.
Among the 373 studies testing paclitaxel in Breast Neoplasms, this one is the 51st largest by enrollment of the 361 interventional ones that give a count, is one of 21 that started in 2010, is one of 61 in phase 3, and was the 195th registered.
14,825 studies on the registry are indexed under Breast Neoplasms; 3,319 are open to participants now.
Browse Breast Neoplasms studies →40 of the 373 studies testing paclitaxel in Breast Neoplasms are open now, in 12 countries. Recruiting first, the newest first:
Zhejiang Cancer Hospital · Sites in China
Liu Shu · Sites in China
RenJi Hospital · Sites in China
Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University · Sites in China
Jazz Pharmaceuticals · Sites in United States, Germany, Italy and 1 more country
By country, each count listing its studies:
Paclitaxel: first FDA approval 1992 (TAXOL), first EMA approval 1999. What it is approved for, and how studies give it, is on its page →
Of the 2,400 Breast Neoplasms studies recruiting now, 1,572 (66%) set no upper age limit and 591 (25%) stop at 75 or younger; 103 take children under 18; 214 take healthy volunteers.
This study: 18 Years and older · female · no healthy volunteers.
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373 studies; the count open now beside each. This study's row is marked.
A study in two phases is counted once above. Listed by phase, each with its combined phases: Phase 1 74 · Phase 2 249 · Phase 3 69 · Phase 4 10
First in 1994; this study’s year is marked. 21 started in 2010.
By drug class, each counting the studies that test any of its medicines:
This study's enrollment of 420 is above the median of 72 across 10,896 interventional studies indexed under Breast Neoplasms.
Median enrollment 60 across the 361 interventional studies. Of the 254 that completed or were terminated, 125 (49%) have results posted.
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66 of 373 have an industry lead sponsor. The 10 most frequent:
Borstkanker Onderzoek Groep is the lead sponsor of 8 studies on the registry; none are open to participants now.
Borstkanker Onderzoek Groep has 8 studies filed under Breast Neoplasms — fewer than ten, so there is no comparison to draw.
16 of the studies testing paclitaxel in Breast Neoplasms that are under way reach primary completion within a year, 0 of them phase 3. Phase 3 first, then by date:
| Study | Primary completion |
|---|---|
| NCT05183126University of Michigan Rogel Cancer CenterPharmacokinetic Study of Skeletal Muscle Area-based Paclitaxel Infusion in Patients With Cancer | 2026-11 |
| NCT03125928Fox Chase Cancer CenterClinical Trial of Atezolizumab With Paclitaxel, Trastuzumab, and Pertuzumab in Patients With Metastatic HER-2 Positive Breast Cancer | 2026-12 |
| NCT07283692RenJi HospitalNeoadjuvant Serplulimab Plus Weekly Paclitaxel and Carboplatin in TNBC (Neo-SERPENT) | 2026-12 |
| NCT07580833Health Hope PharmaA Study to Investigate the Effect of Food on the Bioavailability of Oral Paclitaxel Administered With Encequidar in Participants With Advanced Solid Tumors | 2026-12 |
| NCT05383196Antonio Giordano, MDOnvansertib + Paclitaxel In TNBC | 2026-12-15 |
Among the 373 studies testing paclitaxel in Breast Neoplasms, from their registry updates:
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An open randomized phase III study to compare 8 continuous cycles of chemotherapy with 8 cycles of intermittent (2 times 4 cycles) chemotherapy in first line treatment, in combination with bevacizumab, and second line treatment of patients with HER2/neu negative, incurable, metastatic or unresectable locally advanced breast cancer.
The primary goal of this non-inferiority trial is to determine if the results obtained with a intermittent chemotherapy regimen (2 x 4 cycles of paclitaxel) are not inferior to the results of a continuous chemotherapy regimen (8 cycles of paclitaxel), both combined with bevacizumab in first line treatment of patients with HER2/neu negative, incurable, metastatic or unresectable locally advanced breast cancer.
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Exclusion Criteria:
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HER2 is a protein, made from the ERBB2 gene, that drives the growth of some cancers. A study may look for a level of the protein, extra copies of the gene, or a particular change in it.
In breast cancer, protein tests are read as HER2-positive, HER2-low or HER2-negative; other cancers use their own rules. Check which test result the study requires.
Cancer that has spread from where it began to other parts of the body. “Metastatic” cancer is cancer that has spread this way.
The standard rules for measuring tumours on CT or MRI scans, to tell whether a cancer is shrinking, stable or growing during treatment.
“Measurable disease per RECIST 1.1” usually means at least one tumour 10 mm or more at its longest on a CT scan, or a lymph node 15 mm or more across its short axis.
A scale of how much an illness limits everyday activity. For people being assessed to join a study, scores run from 0 (fully active) to 4; lower is more active.
Studies most often ask for 0–1 or 0–2. Your doctor gives the score; the WHO scale uses the same steps. The full scale also has 5, which records death.
The study doctor’s estimate of how long someone is likely to live. Criteria use it so that people can stay in the study long enough for it to answer its question.
Before you join, the study team explains what taking part involves — its purpose, what happens, the risks and possible benefits — and answers your questions, so you can decide freely. Consent is usually recorded on a form (the informed consent form, ICF) signed by you or, where the law allows, by someone legally authorised to decide for you.
You can keep asking questions during the study, you are told of new information that matters, and you can choose to leave at any time.
Neoadjuvant treatment is given before the main treatment (usually surgery), often to shrink a tumour. Adjuvant treatment is given after it, to lower the chance of the cancer coming back.
Anti-inflammatory medicines such as prednisone, prednisolone and dexamethasone — not the anabolic steroids used for muscle.
Studies differ in what they allow: check which steroid medicines, routes (tablets, injections, creams, inhalers, eye drops) and doses this study accepts.
A drug or device being studied in a clinical trial.
It may be new, or already approved and being studied for another use, dose or form. Criteria often leave out people who took part in another study of one within a recent period, commonly 30 days or five half-lives.
Blood tests of how long blood takes to clot. The INR is the prothrombin time (PT) put on a common scale; about 1 is usual for someone not taking a blood thinner.
Criteria often make an exception for people on a blood thinner such as warfarin, whose INR is raised on purpose.
The top of the normal range for a blood test, as set by the laboratory that runs it. Each lab prints its own range next to your result.
“≤ 2.5 × ULN” means the result can be up to two and a half times that top value.
Cancer deposits in the brain from a cancer that started elsewhere in the body (CNS metastases include the spinal cord).
Studies differ: some leave out any brain metastases, some accept ones treated and stable for some weeks. Check what this study allows.
Malignancy means cancer. Criteria about another or earlier malignancy ask whether you have had a different cancer, usually within a set number of years.
Some are commonly allowed, such as treated skin cancers other than melanoma and early cancers removed completely — check the exceptions this study lists.
Able to become pregnant: from the first period until menopause, unless permanently unable to through surgery (removal of the womb, or of both ovaries or both fallopian tubes).
Criteria for people of childbearing potential usually ask for a negative pregnancy test and for contraception during the study and for a time after it.
Ways of preventing pregnancy. “Highly effective” methods fail less than 1% of the time a year when used correctly — for example an IUD or an implant.
Criteria usually say which methods count and how long to keep using them after the last dose, sometimes for male participants too. Some studies accept a partner’s vasectomy if it was confirmed successful and that person is the participant’s only sexual partner.
A biopsy takes a small piece of tissue to examine. “Archival tissue” is a sample already taken, for example at diagnosis, and kept by the hospital.
Whether a stored sample will do depends on when it was taken, how much there is and what the study needs. Ask whether the study accepts your stored sample or needs a new biopsy.
Judged by the study doctor to matter for your health or for the study. It is a doctor’s decision, so ask the study team if you are unsure whether something counts.
The share of blood the heart’s main pumping chamber (the left ventricle) pushes out with each beat, measured by an echocardiogram (heart ultrasound) or a MUGA scan. About 50–70% is normal.
An allergy, or another reaction of the immune system, to a substance. “Hypersensitivity to the study drug” means a known allergic reaction to it — not every side effect a medicine can have.
The other ingredients in a medicine besides the active drug, such as fillers, colours or preservatives.
HER2
HER2 is a protein, made from the ERBB2 gene, that drives the growth of some cancers. A study may look for a level of the protein, extra copies of the gene, or a particular change in it.
In breast cancer, protein tests are read as HER2-positive, HER2-low or HER2-negative; other cancers use their own rules. Check which test result the study requires.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Metastases
Cancer that has spread from where it began to other parts of the body. “Metastatic” cancer is cancer that has spread this way.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
RECIST
The standard rules for measuring tumours on CT or MRI scans, to tell whether a cancer is shrinking, stable or growing during treatment.
“Measurable disease per RECIST 1.1” usually means at least one tumour 10 mm or more at its longest on a CT scan, or a lymph node 15 mm or more across its short axis.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
ECOG performance status
A scale of how much an illness limits everyday activity. For people being assessed to join a study, scores run from 0 (fully active) to 4; lower is more active.
Studies most often ask for 0–1 or 0–2. Your doctor gives the score; the WHO scale uses the same steps. The full scale also has 5, which records death.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Life expectancy
The study doctor’s estimate of how long someone is likely to live. Criteria use it so that people can stay in the study long enough for it to answer its question.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Informed consent
Before you join, the study team explains what taking part involves — its purpose, what happens, the risks and possible benefits — and answers your questions, so you can decide freely. Consent is usually recorded on a form (the informed consent form, ICF) signed by you or, where the law allows, by someone legally authorised to decide for you.
You can keep asking questions during the study, you are told of new information that matters, and you can choose to leave at any time.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Adjuvant and neoadjuvant
Neoadjuvant treatment is given before the main treatment (usually surgery), often to shrink a tumour. Adjuvant treatment is given after it, to lower the chance of the cancer coming back.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Corticosteroids (steroids)
Anti-inflammatory medicines such as prednisone, prednisolone and dexamethasone — not the anabolic steroids used for muscle.
Studies differ in what they allow: check which steroid medicines, routes (tablets, injections, creams, inhalers, eye drops) and doses this study accepts.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Investigational drug or device
A drug or device being studied in a clinical trial.
It may be new, or already approved and being studied for another use, dose or form. Criteria often leave out people who took part in another study of one within a recent period, commonly 30 days or five half-lives.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
INR, PT and aPTT (clotting tests)
Blood tests of how long blood takes to clot. The INR is the prothrombin time (PT) put on a common scale; about 1 is usual for someone not taking a blood thinner.
Criteria often make an exception for people on a blood thinner such as warfarin, whose INR is raised on purpose.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
ULN (upper limit of normal)
The top of the normal range for a blood test, as set by the laboratory that runs it. Each lab prints its own range next to your result.
“≤ 2.5 × ULN” means the result can be up to two and a half times that top value.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Brain metastases
Cancer deposits in the brain from a cancer that started elsewhere in the body (CNS metastases include the spinal cord).
Studies differ: some leave out any brain metastases, some accept ones treated and stable for some weeks. Check what this study allows.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Cancer (malignancy)
Malignancy means cancer. Criteria about another or earlier malignancy ask whether you have had a different cancer, usually within a set number of years.
Some are commonly allowed, such as treated skin cancers other than melanoma and early cancers removed completely — check the exceptions this study lists.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Childbearing potential
Able to become pregnant: from the first period until menopause, unless permanently unable to through surgery (removal of the womb, or of both ovaries or both fallopian tubes).
Criteria for people of childbearing potential usually ask for a negative pregnancy test and for contraception during the study and for a time after it.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Contraception
Ways of preventing pregnancy. “Highly effective” methods fail less than 1% of the time a year when used correctly — for example an IUD or an implant.
Criteria usually say which methods count and how long to keep using them after the last dose, sometimes for male participants too. Some studies accept a partner’s vasectomy if it was confirmed successful and that person is the participant’s only sexual partner.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Biopsy and archival tissue
A biopsy takes a small piece of tissue to examine. “Archival tissue” is a sample already taken, for example at diagnosis, and kept by the hospital.
Whether a stored sample will do depends on when it was taken, how much there is and what the study needs. Ask whether the study accepts your stored sample or needs a new biopsy.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Clinically significant
Judged by the study doctor to matter for your health or for the study. It is a doctor’s decision, so ask the study team if you are unsure whether something counts.
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LVEF (left ventricular ejection fraction)
The share of blood the heart’s main pumping chamber (the left ventricle) pushes out with each beat, measured by an echocardiogram (heart ultrasound) or a MUGA scan. About 50–70% is normal.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Hypersensitivity
An allergy, or another reaction of the immune system, to a substance. “Hypersensitivity to the study drug” means a known allergic reaction to it — not every side effect a medicine can have.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Excipients
The other ingredients in a medicine besides the active drug, such as fillers, colours or preservatives.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
8 cycles of Paclitaxel: 90 mg/m2 IV on days 1, 8 and 15 every 28 days \& Bevacizumab: 10 mg/kg IV on days 1 and 15 every 28 days
Drug: Paclitaxel, Bevacizumab, liposomal doxorubicin, Capecitabine
intermittent 2x4 cycles of Paclitaxel: 90 mg/m2 IV on days 1, 8 and 15 every 28 days \& Bevacizumab: 10 mg/kg IV on days 1 and 15 every 28 days
Drug: Paclitaxel, Bevacizumab, liposomal doxorubicin, Capecitabine
Drug pages: Paclitaxel · Bevacizumab · Liposomal doxorubicin · Capecitabine
1. st line: * Paclitaxel and bevacizumab: 8 cycles, unless PD or unacceptable toxicity occurs earlier. * Bevacizumab until PD or unacceptable toxicity * At PD patients will go to the 2nd treatment line. 2. nd line: * Non-pegylated liposomal doxorubicin (Myocet®) (or capecitabine): 8 cycles, unless PD or unacceptable toxicity occurs earlier. * At PD patients will go to the 3rd treatment line. If possible, it is advised to cross-over from 2nd line non-pegylated liposomal doxorubicin to 3rd line capecitabine.
Also known as: Non-pegylated liposomal doxorubicin (Myocet®)
Drug pages: Paclitaxel · Bevacizumab · Liposomal doxorubicin · Capecitabine
Arm B 1. st line * Paclitaxel and bevacizumab: 4 cycles, unless PD or unacceptable toxicity * Bevacizumab until PD or unacceptable toxicity * At PD \< 3 months after last paclitaxel start 2nd treatment line. * At PD ≥ 3 months after last paclitaxel, start another 4 cycles * Bevacizumab until the next PD or unacceptable toxicity * At the next PD start the 2nd treatment line. 2. nd line: * Myocet® or capecitabine: 4 cycles, unless PD or unacceptable toxicity * At PD \< 3 months start the 3rd treatment line. If possible, advised to cross-over from 2nd line Myocet® to 3rd line capecitabine. * At PD ≥ 3 months after last administration of Myocet® or capecitabine, start another 4 cycles of Myocet® or capecitabine * At the next PD start 3rd treatment line.
Also known as: Non-pegylated liposomal doxorubicin (Myocet®):
Progression free survival
PFS is defined as the time from start of treatment to the documented progression that requires the patient to switch to the next treatment line or to death due to any cause.
Time frame: 1 year
Progression free survival second line treatment
To compare the PFS of second line treatment of 8 continuous cycles of chemotherapy with liposomal doxorubicin (or capecitabine) with 8 cycles of intermittent (2 times 4 cycles) chemotherapy with liposomal doxorubicin (or capecitabine);
Time frame: 1 year
Objective overall response rate
To compare the objective Overall Response Rate (ORR) between 8 continuous cycles of chemotherapy with 8 cycles of intermittent (2 times 4 cycles) chemotherapy in first treatment line, combined with bevacizumab, and in second treatment line. ORR calculated as the proportion of patients with a best overall response of confirmed Complete Response (CR) and Partial Response (PR).
Time frame: 1 year
Duration of objective response
To compare the Duration of Objective Response (DOR) between 8 continuous cycles of chemotherapy with 8 cycles of intermittent (2 times 4 cycles) chemotherapy in first treatment line, combined with bevacizumab, and second treatment line; For the intermittent chemotherapy schedule the first DOR and, if applicable, second DOR in the same treatment line will be accumulated DOR calculated as the time from the date of first documented CR or PR to the first documented progression or death due to underlying cancer
Time frame: 1 year
Overall survival
To compare Overall Survival (OS) between 8 continuous cycles of chemotherapy with 8 cycles of intermittent (2 times 4 cycles) chemotherapy. OS calculated as the time from the date of randomization to the date of death due to any cause or the date of last contact
Time frame: 1 year
Safety and tolerability. The total number of grade 3 and 4 adverse events will be analyzed.
To compare the Safety between 8 continuous cycles of chemotherapy with 8 cycles of intermittent (2 times 4 cycles) chemotherapy The total number of grade 3 and 4 adverse events will be analyzed as a measure of safety and tolerability
Time frame: 1 year
Quality of life measures
To compare the Quality of Life (QoL) between 8 continuous cycles of chemotherapy with 8 cycles of intermittent (2 times 4 cycles) chemotherapy. Changes in the RAND 36 quality of life scale will be measured
Time frame: 1 year
Pharmacoeconomics
To compare the Pharmacoeconomics between 8 continuous cycles of chemotherapy with 8 cycles of intermittent (2 times 4 cycles) chemotherapy. Direct medical costs will be calculated using a standard cost method.
Time frame: 1 year
Plan to share: No
Ran from Nov 2010 to primary completion in Apr 2019, 101 months.
Of 328 non-industry phase 3 interventional studies under Breast Neoplasms, half reached primary completion within 79 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 50 and three quarters within 127. This study's 101 months is above that.
Counting every sponsor, half of 600 studies reached it within 59 months; a quarter within 36 and three quarters within 96.
How these figures are worked out, and which studies are left out of them.
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Studies of the drugs tested here: Paclitaxel · Bevacizumab · Liposomal doxorubicin · Capecitabine
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