A Phase 2 interventional study of A CDK4/6 inhibitor different from the first that the participant had received, plus fulvestrant. and Treatment of physician's choice in Breast Cancer, sponsored by University of California, San Diego. Recruiting at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-04-09.
Sponsored by University of California, San Diego · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if an artificial intelligence model will be able to select patients with advanced breast cancer who may respond to a second cyclin-dependent kinase 4/6 (CDK4/6) inhibitor after they have progressed on the first CDK4/6 inhibitor. Patients for this study need to have hormone receptor positive (HR+) human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 negative (HER2-) advanced breast cancer.
The main questions the study aims to answer are:
If the artificial intelligence model says that a patient's tumor should respond to the second CDK4/6 inhibitor, and that patient receives the second CDK4/6 inhibitor together with fulvestrant (an endocrine therapy also called Faslodex), will it take longer for the tumor to get worse than if the patient receives another type of therapy? Will the tumor respond better? Will the therapy be safe?
Researchers will compare the combination of a second CDK4/6 inhibitor plus fulvestrant to the therapy chosen by the physician.
Participants will:
Take the assigned therapy based on the way the therapy is usually prescribed. Visit the clinic once every month for checkups, tests, and questionnaires. Keep a diary of the pills they take at home.
This is a phase II, open-label, randomized controlled single-site study to assess the clinical utility of an artificial intelligence model, called palbo-VNN, to guide treatment selection in patients with hormone receptor positive (HR+) human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 negative (HER2-) advanced (unresectable or metastatic) breast cancer who have progressed after prior treatment with a cyclin-dependent kinase 4/6 (CDK4/6) inhibitor. The investigators hypothesize that: (1) the model will be able to predict who will respond to a second CDK4/6 inhibitors combined with fulvestrant (Faslodex); and (2) that the participants treated with a second CDK4/6 inhibitors plus fulvestrant will have better outcomes (longer progression free survival, higher overall response rate, higher clinical benefit rate, and better quality of life) than the participants treated based on the physician's choice.
Next-generation sequencing of the tumor will be performed using biopsies obtained after the first CDK4/6 inhibitor treatment and within six months of study enrollment. The next-generation sequencing data will be analyzed with the palbo-VNN model. Participants with tumors predicted to respond to a second CDK4/6 inhibitor (CDK4/6i sensitive) will be randomized. Half of the randomized participants will receive a second CDK4/6 inhibitor plus fulvestrant; the other half will receive the treatment of physician's choice, excluding CDK4/6 inhibitors.
After 6 months of therapy, the investigators will evaluate the progression free survival rate of the randomized participants, as well as other measures of efficacy, such as overall response rate, clinical benefit rate, and quality of life. They will also do studies to correlate treatment efficacy with molecular alterations of the tumor. These correlative studies may allow to improve the predictive ability of the palbo-VNN model in the future. The investigators will also evaluate treatment safety.
12,544 studies on the registry are indexed under Breast Neoplasms; 2,892 are open to participants now.
This study's planned enrollment of 105 is above the median of 72 across 9,303 interventional studies indexed under Breast Neoplasms.
Browse Breast Neoplasms studies →University of California, San Diego is the lead sponsor of 958 studies on the registry; 191 are open to participants now.
Of its 110 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 70 (64%) have results posted.
Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.
Available next-generation sequencing panel testing results - or possibility to perform next-generation sequencing panel testing - on tumor tissue biopsy collected within 6 months of enrollment but after CDK4/6 inhibitor exposure. Note that If biopsy was performed more than 6 months before enrollment, the patient is not eligible to participate, unless the biopsy is repeated during the prescreening phase. Adequate tissue/testing will be one of these:
Participants must have organ and marrow function as defined below:
For participants of reproductive potential:
Exclusion Criteria:
A CDK4/6 inhibitor different from the first that the participant had received, plus fulvestrant.
Drug: A CDK4/6 inhibitor different from the first that the participant had received, plus fulvestrant.
Treatment of physician's choice, excluding CDK4/6 inhibitors.
Drug: Treatment of physician's choice
A CDK4/6 inhibitor different from the first that the participant had received, plus fulvestrant.
Treatment of physician's choice, excluding CDK4/6 inhibitors.
Progression free survival
Rate of progression free survival at 6 months after randomization.
Time frame: 6 months
Plan to share: No
Eligibility is decided by the study team. Share this record with your doctor or contact the team directly.
Contact study teamGet an email when the registry record changes — status, dates, results — or when someone posts here.
Sign in to followQuestions and observations about this study, from anyone following it. Not medical advice, and not a channel to the study team — their contact details are on the registry record.
Sign in to join the discussion. Reading takes no account; posting does. You choose a display name, and a pseudonym is the default.
Nothing here yet. If you are running this trial, taking part in it, or weighing whether to, this is the place to say so.
University of California, San Diego