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"info": {
"nct_id": "NCT01743560",
"official_title": "A Phase IV Multicentre, Open Label Study of Postmenopausal Women With Oestrogen Receptor Positive Locally Advanced or Metastatic Breast Cancer Treated With Everolimus (RAD001) in Combination With Exemestane, With Exploratory Epigenetic Marker Analysis",
"inclusion_criteria": "* Histological or cytological confirmation of oestrogen receptor positive (ER+) and/or progesterone receptor positive (PgR+), human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) negative breast cancer.\n* Availability of archival tumour tissue (the tissue block or slides will be sent to the central laboratory for analysis).\n* Postmenopausal women. The investigator must confirm postmenopausal status. Postmenopausal status is defined either by:\n\n * Age ≥ 55 years and one year or more of amenorrhea\n * Age < 55 years and one year or more of amenorrhea and postmenopausal levels of FSH and LH per local institutional standards\n * Prior hysterectomy and has postmenopausal levels of Follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) and Luteinizing Hormone (LH) per local institutional standards Surgical menopause with bilateral oophorectomy\n* Disease progression following prior therapy with NSAI, defined as:\n\n * Recurrence while on or after completion of an adjuvant treatment including letrozole or anastrozole, or\n * Progression while on or following the completion of letrozole or anastrozole treatment for locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer\n\nNote: Non-steroidal aromatase inhibitors (i.e. letrozole or anastrozole) do not have to be the last treatment prior to enrollment. Other prior anticancer therapy, e.g. tamoxifen, fulvestrant, exemestane are also allowed. Patients must have recovered to grade 1 or better from any adverse events (except alopecia) related to previous therapy prior to enrollment.\n\n- Radiological evidence of recurrence or progression on last systemic therapy prior to enrollment.\n\nPatients must have:\n\n* At least one lesion that can be accurately measured or\n* Bone lesions: lytic or mixed (lytic + sclerotic) in the absence of measurable disease\n\n - Adequate bone marrow and coagulation function as shown by:\n* Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) ≥ 1.5 109/L\n* Platelets ≥ 100 ×109/L\n* Hemoglobin (Hb) ≥ 9.0 g/dL\n* International Normalized Ratio (INR) ≤ 2 .\n\n - Adequate liver function as shown by:\n* Serum aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and alanine aminotransferase (ALT) ≤ 2.5 ULN (or ≤ 5 if hepatic metastases are present)\n* Total serum bilirubin ≤ 1.5 × ULN (≤ 3 × ULN for patients known to have Gilbert Syndrome)\n\n - Adequate renal function as shown by:\n* Serum creatinine ≤ 1.5 × ULN\n\n * Fasting serum cholesterol ≤ 300 mg/dl or 7.75 mmol/L and fasting triglycerides ≤ 2.5 × ULN. In case one or both of these thresholds are exceeded, the patient can only be included after initiation of statin therapy and when the above mentioned values have been achieved\n * Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of PS </ 2\n * Written informed consent obtained before any screening procedure and according to local guidelines.\nHealthy volunteers allowed\nMust be FEMALE\nMust have minimum age of 18 Years",
"exclusion_criteria": "* HER2-overexpressing patients by local laboratory testing (IHC 3+ staining or in situ hybridization positive).\n* Pre-menopausal, pregnant, lactating women.\n* Known hypersensitivity to mammilian target of Rapamycin (mTOR) inhibitors, e.g. sirolimus (rapamycin) or to their excipients.\n* Known hypersensitivity to exemestane, to the active substance or to any of the excipients.\n* Patients with rare hereditary problems of galactose intolerance, Lapp lactase deficiency or glucose galactose malabsorption.\n* Radiotherapy within four weeks prior to enrollment except in case of localized radiotherapy for analgesic purpose or for lytic lesions at risk of fracture which can then be completed within two weeks prior to enrollment. Patients must have recovered from radiotherapy toxicities prior to enrollment.\n* Currently receiving hormone replacement therapy, unless discontinued prior to enrollment.\n* Patients receiving concomitant immunosuppressive agents or chronic corticosteroids use, at the time of study entry except in cases outlined below:\n\nProlonged systemic corticosteroid treatment during study, except for topical applications (e.g. rash),inhaled sprays (e.g. obstructive airways diseases), eye drops or local injections (e.g. intra-articular) should not be given. However:\n\n* short duration (<2 weeks) of systemic corticosteroids is allowed (e.g. chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, anti-emetic)\n* low doses of corticosteroids for brain metastasis treatment is allowed\n* Patients with symptomatic visceral metastasis (e.g. significant dyspnoea related to pulmonary lymphangitic carcinomatosis and lung metastases or clinically meaningful symptomatic liver metastasis)\n* Symptomatic brain or other Central Nervous system (CNS) metastases.\n* Active, bleeding diathesis, or on oral anti-vitamin K medication (except low dose warfarin, low molecular weight heparin (LMWH) and acetylsalicylic acid or equivalent, as long as the INR is 2.0)\n* Any severe and / or uncontrolled medical conditions such as:\n\n * Unstable angina pectoris, symptomatic congestive heart failure, myocardial infarction ≤6 months prior to enrollment, serious uncontrolled cardiac arrhythmia\n * Uncontrolled diabetes as defined by fasting serum glucose > 1.5 × ULN\n * Acute and chronic, active infectious disorders (except for Hep B and Hep C positive patients) and nonmalignant medical illnesses that are uncontrolled or whose control may be jeopardized by the complications of this study therapy\n * Impairment of gastrointestinal function or gastrointestinal disease that may significantly alter the absorption of study drugs (e.g., ulcerative disease, uncontrolled nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, malabsorption syndrome)\n * Significant symptomatic deterioration of lung function. If clinically indicated, pulmonary function tests including measures of predicted lung volumes, DLco, O2 saturation at rest on room air should be considered to exclude restrictive pulmonary disease, pneumonitis or pulmonary infiltrates.\n* Patients being treated with drugs recognized as being strong inhibitors or inducers of the isoenzyme CYP3A (rifabutin, rifampicin, clarithromycin, ketoconazole, itraconazole, voriconazole, ritonavir, telithromycin) within the last 5 days prior to enrollment\n* History of non-compliance to medical regimens\n* Patients unwilling to or unable to comply with the protocol\n* Another malignancy within 5 years prior to randomization, with the exception of adequately treated in-situ carcinoma of the cervix, uteri, basal or squamous cell carcinoma or non-melanomatous skin cancer",
"miscellaneous_criteria": ""
},
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"line": "* Histological or cytological confirmation of oestrogen receptor positive (ER+) and/or progesterone receptor positive (PgR+), human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) negative breast cancer.",
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"line": "* Availability of archival tumour tissue (the tissue block or slides will be sent to the central laboratory for analysis).",
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"line": "* Postmenopausal women. The investigator must confirm postmenopausal status. Postmenopausal status is defined either by:",
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"requirement_type": "gender",
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"line": "* Age < 55 years and one year or more of amenorrhea and postmenopausal levels of FSH and LH per local institutional standards",
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"exact_snippets": "postmenopausal levels of FSH and LH per local institutional standards",
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"line": "* Prior hysterectomy and has postmenopausal levels of Follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) and Luteinizing Hormone (LH) per local institutional standards Surgical menopause with bilateral oophorectomy",
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"exact_snippets": "Prior hysterectomy",
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"requirements": [
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"requirement_type": "presence",
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{
"exact_snippets": "postmenopausal levels of Follicle stimulating hormone (FSH)",
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"requirement_type": "level",
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{
"exact_snippets": "postmenopausal levels of ... Luteinizing Hormone (LH)",
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"requirement_type": "level",
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"exact_snippets": "Surgical menopause with bilateral oophorectomy",
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"line": "* Disease progression following prior therapy with NSAI, defined as:",
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"line": "* Progression while on or following the completion of letrozole or anastrozole treatment for locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer",
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"line": "Note: Non-steroidal aromatase inhibitors (i.e. letrozole or anastrozole) do not have to be the last treatment prior to enrollment. Other prior anticancer therapy, e.g. tamoxifen, fulvestrant, exemestane are also allowed. Patients must have recovered to grade 1 or better from any adverse events (except alopecia) related to previous therapy prior to enrollment.",
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{
"exact_snippets": "Non-steroidal aromatase inhibitors (i.e. letrozole or anastrozole) do not have to be the last treatment prior to enrollment.",
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"requirement_type": "presence",
"expected_value": false
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{
"exact_snippets": "Other prior anticancer therapy, e.g. tamoxifen, fulvestrant, exemestane are also allowed.",
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"exact_snippets": "Patients must have recovered to grade 1 or better from any adverse events (except alopecia) related to previous therapy prior to enrollment.",
"criterion": "recovery from adverse events",
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{
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"operator": "<=",
"value": 1,
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"line": "- Radiological evidence of recurrence or progression on last systemic therapy prior to enrollment.",
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"exact_snippets": "Radiological evidence of recurrence or progression",
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"exact_snippets": "last systemic therapy prior to enrollment",
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"line": "* At least one lesion that can be accurately measured or",
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"operator": ">=",
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"exact_snippets": "Platelets ≥ 100 ×109/L",
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"operator": ">=",
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}
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"line": "* Hemoglobin (Hb) ≥ 9.0 g/dL",
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"requirement_type": "level",
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"operator": ">=",
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"line": "* International Normalized Ratio (INR) ≤ 2 .",
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}
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"operator": "<=",
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"line": "* Fasting serum cholesterol ≤ 300 mg/dl or 7.75 mmol/L and fasting triglycerides ≤ 2.5 × ULN. In case one or both of these thresholds are exceeded, the patient can only be included after initiation of statin therapy and when the above mentioned values have been achieved",
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"requirement_type": "level",
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