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TerminatedNCT03367676SOBERUpdated Sep 23, 2026

12 weekS Adjuvant dOcetaxel Plus trastuzumaB in Patients With Small, Node-negative, HER2-positive Breast cancER (SOBER)

A Phase 2 interventional study of Trastuzumab and Docetaxel in Breast Cancer, sponsored by Ruijin Hospital. Terminated at 1 site in China. Open to female participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-09-23.

Sponsored by Ruijin Hospital · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment

Why this study was terminated
Due to slower than anticipated enrollment, the study was terminated early after 78 patients were recruited.

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Phase
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
78
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
Female
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Where this study stands

Counted across the records on this site · 2026-11-14

Among 373 studies testing trastuzumab in Breast Neoplasms — 56 open to participants now, 85 under way, 5 of them phase 3. Trastuzumab · Breast Neoplasms.

Enrollment
150th of 365
78 · median 62
Started
2017
with 5 others
Phase 2
239 of 373
44 open now
Registered
258th of 373
by date

Among the 373 studies testing trastuzumab in Breast Neoplasms, this one is the 150th largest by enrollment of the 365 interventional ones that give a count, is one of 6 that started in 2017, is one of 239 in phase 2, and was the 258th registered.

Breast Neoplasms

14,832 studies on the registry are indexed under Breast Neoplasms; 3,320 are open to participants now.

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Open to participants now

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About trastuzumab

Trastuzumab: first FDA approval 1998 (HERCEPTIN), first EMA approval 2000. What it is approved for, and how studies give it, is on its page →

Who these studies take

Of the 2,399 Breast Neoplasms studies recruiting now, 1,570 (65%) set no upper age limit and 592 (25%) stop at 75 or younger; 103 take children under 18; 215 take healthy volunteers.

This study: 18 Years and older · female · no healthy volunteers.

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Study summary

This phase II trial aims to study the efficacy and safety of 12 weeks adjuvant docetaxel plus trastuzumab in patients with tumors ≤1cm, node-negative, HER2-positive breast cancer.

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Many clinical trials has showed the superiority of combining trastuzumab to chemotherapy in the treatment of HER2 positive early breast cancer with tumor size ≥1cm or node metastasis.But in pT1n0m0 breast cancer patients, patients with HER2 positive tumor show worse prognosis than those with HER2 negative tumor.A short duration of trastuzumab administration contaminately with chemotherapy may have similar efficacy and lowerer toxiticy compared with standard one year therapy.Our study aims to study the efficacy and safety of 12 weeks adjuvant docetaxel plus trastuzumab in patients with tumors ≤1cm, node-negative, HER2-positive breast cancer.

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Conditions studied

  • Breast Cancer

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Keywords

  • trastuzumab
  • adjuvant therapy
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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years and older
Sexes eligible
Female
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

Women aged ≥18 years

Have finished radical operation

confirmed dignosis of infiltrating primary breast cancer

According to AJCC ,pT≤1cm, pN0,no evidence for

Operation specimens are available for ER, progesterone receptor (PR) and Her2 detection, patients should be Her2 positive tumor (3+ by IHC or FISH+ )

Has (ECOG) Performance Score 0-1,expected survival time > 12 months

Adequate bone marrow function,adequate liver and renal function,and adequate coagulation function.

Women with potential child-bearing must have a negative pregnancy test (urine or serum) within 7 days of drug administration and agree to use an acceptable and effective method of to avoid pregnancy during the study.

Written according to the local ethics committee requirements.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

pT>1cm or node positive

breast cancer

Any prior systemic or loco-regional treatment of breast cancer, including chemotherapy in 28 days

With a history of malignant tumor except uterine cervix cancer in situ or skin basal cell carcinoma

Patients with medical conditions that indicate intolerant to chemotherapy and related treatment, including severe infection, coagulation disorder,active peptic ulcer, coagulation disorder, connective tissue disease or myelo-suppressive disease

Has symptomatic peripheral neuropathy > grade 2 according to NCI

Known severe allergy to any drugs in this study

Has cadiac Dysfunction or lung dysfunction defined as follows:

  1. grade ≥3 CHF according to v 4.0 or ≥II
  2. angina which requires drug control ,cardiac infraction,and any other vascular disease with apparent clinical symptoms
  3. uncontrolled high-risk arryhthmia
  4. unconrolled hypertension

Has active or with abnormal liver function tests (LFTs) or is known to be positive

Patient is pregnant or breast feeding

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Terms in these criteria, in plain language(11)

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Histologically or cytologically confirmed

The diagnosis was confirmed by looking at a sample under a microscope: tissue from a biopsy or surgery (histology), or cells from a fluid or needle sample (cytology).

Your pathology report is the document that shows this.

Metastases

Cancer that has spread from where it began to other parts of the body. “Metastatic” cancer is cancer that has spread this way.

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.

0
Fully active, no restrictions.
1
Limited in strenuous activity, but walking and able to do light work, such as housework or office work.
2
Walking and able to look after yourself, but unable to work; up and about more than half of waking hours.
3
Able to look after yourself only in part; in bed or a chair more than half of waking hours.
4
Unable to look after yourself at all; in bed or a chair all day.

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.

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.

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.

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.

CTCAE grade

The US National Cancer Institute’s scale of how severe an adverse event is — any unwanted medical event during a study, such as a symptom, an illness or an abnormal test result, whether or not a treatment caused it. Whether it did is judged separately.

1
Mild.
2
Moderate.
3
Severe.
4
Life-threatening.
5
Death due to the event.

“Side effects of earlier treatment resolved to grade 1 or less” means they have settled to mild or gone.

NYHA class (heart failure)

The New York Heart Association’s four classes of how much heart failure limits physical activity.

I
No limits: ordinary activity causes no undue tiredness or breathlessness.
II
Slight limits: comfortable at rest, ordinary activity causes symptoms.
III
Marked limits: comfortable at rest, less than ordinary activity causes symptoms.
IV
Symptoms even at rest; any activity makes them worse.

Studies set their own limit — many outside heart failure leave out class III–IV, while heart failure studies may ask for a particular class. Check the class this study names.

Hepatitis B tests

Hepatitis B is a virus that infects the liver. These are separate tests: HBsAg positive usually means a current infection (a recent vaccination can briefly cause it too); total anti-HBc (HBcAb) positive means an infection now or in the past; HBV DNA measures how much virus is in the blood.

Some studies accept a past infection if HBV DNA is undetectable, sometimes with antiviral medicine during the study. Check what this study allows.

Hepatitis C tests

Hepatitis C is a virus that infects the liver. An HCV antibody test can stay positive after an infection has cleared (and is occasionally positive without one); an HCV RNA test shows whether the virus is there now.

After treatment, hepatitis C counts as cured when HCV RNA is still undetectable 12 weeks or more after the treatment ended. Studies often accept people cured this way.

HIV

The human immunodeficiency virus, which weakens the immune system.

Many studies now accept people whose HIV is controlled on treatment, judged by the viral load and the CD4 count. Check the limits this study sets.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 2
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
78 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Experimental Arm

    12 weeks adjuvant docetaxel plus trastuzumab

    Drug: Trastuzumab · Drug: Docetaxel

Interventions

  • Trastuzumab is administered at a loading dose of 8 mg/kg IV followed by 6 mg/kg every 21 days for 4 cycles.

  • Docetaxel 100mg/m2,d1,iv,q3w\*4

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Disease-free Survival

    Disease-free survival is defined as the time from the date of surgery to the first appearance of one of the following: breast cancer in situ or invasive breast cancer recurrence at local, regional, or distant site, invasive contralateral breast cancer, second (non-breast) invasive cancer, or death without cancer event; or censored at date of last follow-up.

    Time frame: 3-year estimates

Secondary outcomes

  1. Breast Cancer Specific Survival

    Defined as the time from the date of surgery to death from breast cancer relapse; or censored at date last known alive.

    Time frame: 3-year estimates

  2. Overall Survival

    Defined as the time from the date of surgery to death from any cause; or censored at date last known alive.

    Time frame: 3-year estimats

  3. Treatment-related adverse events

    Incidence and severity of adverse events as assessed by NCI CTCAE V4.0

    Time frame: up to 4 months

  4. Change of LVEF after treatment

    The change of LVEF after 12 weeks treatment compared to the baseline LVEF

    Time frame: up to 4 months

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Study locations

1 site
  • Ruijin Hospital
    Shanghai, Shanghai Municipality 200025, China
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reached

Ran from Dec 2017 to primary completion in Jul 2024, 78 months.

How these figures are worked out, and which studies are left out of them.

Registered
Dec 5, 2017
First posted
Dec 11, 2017
StartActual
Dec 30, 2017
Primary completionActual
Jul 1, 2024
CompletionActual
Oct 1, 2025
Last update
Sep 23, 2026
What these dates mean
Start.
When the first participant enrolled; while estimated, when the study expects to open to recruitment.
Primary completion.
When the last participant was examined or treated to collect data for the study's main question, its primary outcome. A study that stopped early gives the date its data collection stopped.
Completion.
When the last participant's last visit took place, for every outcome, secondary ones and side effects included: the end of the study. Often later than primary completion, sometimes the same day.
Actual and Est.
Actual means the registry says the date has happened. Est. (estimated) is a date the sponsor plans or expects. It can still move, and the sponsor is expected to change it to actual once it has passed.
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Sep 23, 2026, 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
NCT03367676
Lead sponsor
Ruijin Hospital
Responsible party
Li Zhu (Professor, Ruijin Hospital) — Principal investigator
First posted
Dec 11, 2017
Start date
Dec 30, 2017
Primary completion
Jul 1, 2024
Completion
Oct 1, 2025
Last update
Sep 23, 2026

Study contacts

Li Zhu, doctor
principal investigator · Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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