An interventional study of Glucose in Triple Negative Breast Cancer, sponsored by Baylor Research Institute. Completed at 1 site in United States. Open to female participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2021-10-08.
Sponsored by Baylor Research Institute · Not applicable, Interventional, and Diagnostic
The primary objective is to describe and discover new insights into the glucose, amino acid, and lipid metabolic dependencies of TNBC via nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy analysis of in vivo [1,2-13C] glucose-labeled breast cancer biopsies.
The secondary objectives are to correlate the dominant metabolic dependencies of TNBCs with pathologic response to preoperative chemotherapy, and with the cancers' molecular signaling pathways assessed via NGS and RPPA.
One of the recognized hallmarks of cancer cells is deregulated cellular metabolism, characterized by enhanced metabolic autonomy compare with non-transformed cells. Tumor cells typically display an overall increase in glucose metabolism, associated with enhanced aerobic glycolysis and decreased oxidative phosphorylation, accompanied by a requirement for a high rate of protein, nucleotide, and fatty acid synthesis to provide the raw materials for cell division. 13C-glucose is a non-radioactive stable isotope tracer that has been widely used in vitro, in vivo, and in patients in a variety of disease settings to study glucose, amino acid, and lipid metabolism, at steady state and following intervention. [1,2-13C] glucose can provide additional information on the activity of the oxidative pentose phosphate pathway versus glycolysis. Administration of intravenous 13C-glucose is a convenient and affordable approach to analyzing the metabolomics of human cancers in their native microenvironments.
The metabolic dependencies of the various breast cancer subtypes are poorly understood. Importantly, in depth analyses of the in situ metabolic processes utilized by triple-negative breast cancers (TNBCs) using state-of-the-art in vivo [1,2-13C]-glucose infusions in patients with TNBC has never been done. In TNBC, oncogenic activation of key signaling pathways leads to altered metabolic programming resulting in an increased dependence on exogenous nutrients such as glucose and glutamine. These data further suggest a hypothesis that TNBCs may employ a cellular mechanism called macropinocytosis to ingest and degrade interstitial albumin to accumulate glutamine. This process may then be exploited for therapeutic gain through enhanced uptake by cells that utilize macropinocytosis to meet their metabolic requirements.
In this study, administration of [1,2-13C]-glucose to patients with TNBC will be done prior to patients undergoing a biopsy of their breast cancer as well as blood sample collection which will allow for in depth evaluation of glycolysis as well as lipid and amino acid metabolism by Joshua Rabinowitz, PhD, at Princeton University who is an international expert in cancer metabolomics. RAS and PI3K pathway and other genomic alterations as well as pathway activation status will be determined by next generation sequencing (NGS) and by reverse phase protein array (RPPA), and will be correlated with the metabolic findings, and both will be assessed in the context of the patients' response to standard preoperative chemotherapy.
A patient will be considered for enrollment in this study if all the following criteria are met:
Have TNBC defined as invasive ductal cancer: ER- tumors with \<10% of tumor nuclei immunoreactive; PR- tumors with \<10% of tumor nuclei immunoreactive; HER2-negative defined as follows:
Adequate hematologic function, defined by:
Adequate liver function, defined by:
Adequate renal function, defined by:
a. Serum creatinine ≤ 2 x ULN or calculated creatinine clearance of ≥60 ml/min
Exclusion Criteria:
A patient will be ineligible for inclusion in this study any of the following criteria are met:
4 patients without glucose infusion
Dietary Supplement: Glucose
12 Patients with glucose infusion
Dietary Supplement: Glucose
The first 4 patients enrolled on trial will undergo the research core biopsies of their TNBC without the 13C glucose infusion; these samples will serve as control tissue that will be processed identically to the tissues obtained from patients who received the glucose isotope. The following 12 patients will receive 6 grams (g) of \[1,2-13C\] glucose as an IV
Amount of glucose, amino acid, and lipid metabolites in TNBC.
Amount of glucose, amino acid, lipid will be measured in 16 patients with TNBC using NMR spectroscopy to see how metabolism is affected in TNBC.
Time frame: 2 years
Correlation of signaling pathways in TNBC with response and metabolites.
A panel of key cancer cell signaling pathways will be analyzed in TNBC tissues from 16 patients using phosphoproteomic technology and next generation sequencing. The activated and deactivated pathways will be correlated with standard of care pathologic response (residual disease or no residual disease) and amount of glucose, amino acid, and lipid metabolized.
Time frame: 2 years
Plan to share: Yes — For serum collection and storage at the Baylor BPM core, until they are shipped to Princeton University. The key metabolic dependency findings will be correlated with genomic and proteomic alterations assessed by NGS and RPPA, and with patients' response to preoperative chemotherapy.
Supporting information: Study protocol, Sap, Csr
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