A Phase 2 interventional study of Paclitaxel and Carboplatin in Triple Negative Breast Cancer, sponsored by Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins. Recruiting at 2 sites in United States. Open to female participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-09-03.
Sponsored by Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment
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Among 645 studies in Triple Negative Breast Neoplasms with a site in United States — 163 open to participants now, 264 under way, 16 of them phase 3. Triple Negative Breast Neoplasms · United States.
Among the 645 studies in Triple Negative Breast Neoplasms with a site in United States, this one is the 411th largest by planned enrollment of the 605 interventional ones that give a count, is one of 44 that started in 2024, is one of 191 in phase 2, reaches primary completion later than 220 of the 263 other live ones, and was the 526th registered.
1,219 studies on the registry are indexed under Triple Negative Breast Neoplasms; 445 are open to participants now.
Browse Triple Negative Breast Neoplasms studies →163 of the 645 studies in Triple Negative Breast Neoplasms with a site in United States are open now. Recruiting first, the newest first:
University of Alabama at Birmingham · Sites in United States
Ages 18–75 · Women only
Medical University of South Carolina · Sites in United States
Ages 18+
National Cancer Institute (NCI) · Sites in United States
Ages 18–120
National Cancer Institute (NCI) · Sites in United States
Ages 18+
City of Hope Medical Center · Sites in United States
Ages 18+ · Women only
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Of the 331 Triple Negative Breast Neoplasms studies recruiting now, 231 (70%) set no upper age limit and 85 (26%) stop at 75 or younger; 12 take children under 18; 6 take healthy volunteers.
This study: 18 Years and older · female · no healthy volunteers.
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645 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 1 353 · Phase 2 300 · Phase 3 29
First in 2001; this study’s year is marked. 44 started in 2024.
By drug class, each counting the studies that test any of its medicines:
This study's planned enrollment of 30 is below the median of 60 across 1,053 interventional studies indexed under Triple Negative Breast Neoplasms.
Median enrollment 52 across the 605 interventional studies, 90 across the 38 observational. Of the 338 that completed or were terminated, 179 (53%) have results posted.
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319 of 645 have an industry lead sponsor. The 10 most frequent:
Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins is the lead sponsor of 582 studies on the registry; 71 are open to participants now.
Of its 114 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 68 (60%) have results posted.
Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins has 1 study filed under Triple Negative Breast Neoplasms — fewer than ten, so there is no comparison to draw.
93 of the studies in Triple Negative Breast Neoplasms with a site in United States that are under way reach primary completion within a year, 2 of them phase 3. Phase 3 first, then by date:
| Study | Primary completion |
|---|---|
| NCT05382286Phase 3Gilead SciencesStudy of Sacituzumab Govitecan-hziy and Pembrolizumab Versus Treatment of Physician's Choice and Pembrolizumab in Patients With Previously Untreated, Locally Advanced Inoperable or Metastatic Triple-Negative Breast Cancer | 2027-02 |
| NCT05633654Phase 3Gilead SciencesStudy of Sacituzumab Govitecan-hziy and Pembrolizumab Versus Treatment of Physician's Choice in Patients With Triple Negative Breast Cancer Who Have Residual Invasive Disease After Surgery and Neoadjuvant Therapy (ASCENT-05/AFT-65 OptimICE-RD/GBG 119/NSABP B-63) | 2027-06 |
| NCT04768426Stanford UniversitySerial Circulating Tumor DNA (ctDNA) Monitoring During Adjuvant Capecitabine in Early Triple-negative Breast Cancer | 2026-11 |
| NCT06545331ExelixisStudy of XB010 in Subjects With Solid Tumors | 2026-11-23 |
| NCT02276443M.D. Anderson Cancer CenterMolecular Testing and Imaging in Improving Response in Patients With Stage I-III Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Receiving Chemotherapy MDACC Breast Moonshot Initiative | 2026-11-30 |
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Among the 645 studies in Triple Negative Breast Neoplasms with a site in United States, from their registry updates:
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Eligible patients with stage 2 and 3 triple negative breast cancer will be treated with 4 cycles of neoadjuvant paclitaxel/carboplatin/pembrolizumab. A PET scan will be performed at baseline and after 1 cycle of therapy. A breast MRI will be performed after treatment completion. Patients with complete clinical response will proceed to surgery. Patients with clinical residual disease will complete neoadjuvant rescue with 4 cycles of doxorubicin/cyclophosphamide prior to surgery. If residual disease identified after surgery, adjuvant therapy to be determined by the treating oncologist (may include doxorubicin/cyclophosphamide/pembrolizumab, capecitabine etc).
Eligible participants will undergo baseline procedures including research bloodwork, MRI and PET scan. Participants will then be treated with one cycle of paclitaxel, carboplatin and pembrolizumab (TCarbo/pembro). At the end of Cycle one patients will undergo repeat procedures (bloodwork and PET scan), and then continue with treatment for an additional three cycles. ctDNA will be collected on day 1 of each cycle. At the end of treatment patients will undergo repeat MRI.
Patients achieving a clinical complete response (CR) on MRI will proceed with surgery. Patients with clinical residual disease (RD) on MRI will be recommended a biopsy, and be recommended "rescue" neoadjuvant doxorubicin and cyclophosphamide with pembrolizumab (AC/pembro) for four additional cycles, and then proceed with surgery. Note: patients/treating physician may opt to proceed with surgery.
Archival tissue will be collected from the surgical product. Patients achieving a pathologic CR (pCR) may proceed with adjuvant pembrolizumab per standard of care, and treating physician's discretion. Patients with pathological RD may proceed with "rescue" adjuvant AC/pembrolizumab for four additional cycles (if not given neoadjuvantly), per treating physician discretion. The participants may also receive Aadjuvant capecitabine or olaparib as indicated and per treating physician's discretion.
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Eligible for standard chemo-immunotherapy as determined by treating physician, including consideration of:
Exclusion Criteria:
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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.
A condition in which the immune system attacks the body’s own tissues, such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, psoriasis, type 1 diabetes or inflammatory bowel disease.
Immunotherapy studies often leave out active autoimmune disease, and some name exceptions, such as thyroid disease on replacement hormone. Check the exceptions this study lists.
A weakened immune system. It can come from an illness, such as HIV or some blood cancers, or from medicines that turn the immune system down, for example after an organ transplant or for an autoimmune disease; steroids at higher doses count.
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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.
Cancer that has spread from where it began to other parts of the body. “Metastatic” cancer is cancer that has spread this way.
PD-1, PD-L1 and CTLA-4 are proteins that act as brakes on the immune system. Checkpoint inhibitors, such as pembrolizumab or nivolumab, block them so the immune system can attack a cancer.
PD-L1 can also be measured in a tumour sample. Some scores count stained tumour cells only (TPS); others also count certain immune cells (CPS). The study names the score and the minimum it uses.
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.
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Autoimmune disease
A condition in which the immune system attacks the body’s own tissues, such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, psoriasis, type 1 diabetes or inflammatory bowel disease.
Immunotherapy studies often leave out active autoimmune disease, and some name exceptions, such as thyroid disease on replacement hormone. Check the exceptions this study lists.
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Immunosuppression
A weakened immune system. It can come from an illness, such as HIV or some blood cancers, or from medicines that turn the immune system down, for example after an organ transplant or for an autoimmune disease; steroids at higher doses count.
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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.
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Metastases
Cancer that has spread from where it began to other parts of the body. “Metastatic” cancer is cancer that has spread this way.
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PD-1, PD-L1 and checkpoint inhibitors
PD-1, PD-L1 and CTLA-4 are proteins that act as brakes on the immune system. Checkpoint inhibitors, such as pembrolizumab or nivolumab, block them so the immune system can attack a cancer.
PD-L1 can also be measured in a tumour sample. Some scores count stained tumour cells only (TPS); others also count certain immune cells (CPS). The study names the score and the minimum it uses.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
4 cycles of paclitaxel/carboplatin/pembrolizumab
Drug: Paclitaxel · Drug: Carboplatin · Drug: Pembrolizumab · Drug: Doxorubicin · Drug: Cyclophosphamide · Drug: Olaparib · Drug: Capecitabine
chemotherapy
Also known as: Taxol
chemotherapy
Also known as: Paraplatin
immunotherapy
Also known as: Keytruda
additional chemotherapy - neoadjuvant or adjuvant rescue
Also known as: Adriamycin
additional chemotherapy - adjuvant rescue
Also known as: Cytoxan
adjuvant rescue
Also known as: Lynparza
adjuvant rescue
Also known as: Xeloda
SULmax in relation to pCR
Evaluate if lack of decrease in fluorodeooxyglucose (FDG) / positron emission tomography (PET) standardized uptake value corrected for lean body mass (SULmax) by \<40% after 1 cycle of neoadjuvant therapy correlates with residual disease at the time of surgery.
Time frame: 8 months
Pathologic complete response (pCR)
Evaluate the pathologic complete response (pCR) rate in patients with early-stage triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) treated with neoadjuvant chemo-immunotherapy.
Time frame: 3 years
Circulating tumor deoxyribonucleic acid (ctDNA) clearance
Evaluate how circulating tumor deoxyribonucleic acid (ctDNA) kinetics collected at pre-treatment, and during and after completion of neoadjuvant treatment correlate with pathologic complete response (pCR) at the time of surgery.
Time frame: 3 years
Pathologic complete response (pCR) comparison
Compare the pathologic complete response (pCR) rates among patients who achieved clinical complete response (cCR) by breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and those received "rescue" neoadjuvant AC/pembrolizumab with clinical residual disease (RD) after MRI scan.
Time frame: 3 years
Diagnostic accuracy of percent and absolute change between baseline and C1D15 measurements
Evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of percent and absolute change (between baseline and C1D15 measurements), and C1D15 absolute measurements in fluorodeooxyglucose (FDG) / positron emission tomography (PET) standardized uptake value corrected for lean body mass (SULmax) for predicting clinical complete response (cCR) using receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve.
Time frame: 3 years
Clinical complete response (cCR) and pathologic complete response (pCR)
Investigate if clinical complete response (cCR) by MRI is predictive of pathologic complete response (pCR).
Time frame: 3 years
Change in microbiome
Number of patients that experienced changes in the microbiome serially over time of residual disease.
Time frame: 3 years
Plan to share: No
Started May 2024 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Jun 2029, 61 months after the start.
Of 220 non-industry phase 2 interventional studies under Triple Negative Breast Neoplasms, half reached primary completion within 60 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 38 and three quarters within 99. This study's planned 61 months is close to that.
Counting every sponsor, half of 255 studies reached it within 59 months; a quarter within 37 and three quarters within 94.
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