Skip to main content
. 2020 Dec 3;14:1147. doi: 10.3332/ecancer.2020.1147

Table 4. Ongoing neoadjuvant trials with immunotherapeutic agents.

Trial name Immunotherapeutic agent Tumour subtype Trial type Identifier
Trials with PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitors and chemotherapy
PHOENIX DDR/Anti-PD-L1 Trial Durvalumab TNBC Window of opportunity NCT03740893
Safety and Efficacy of Durvalumab Combined to Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Localised Luminal B HER2(-) and Triple-Negative Breast Cancer (B-IMMUNE) Durvalumab HR-positive, HER2-negative Phase Ib/II, open label NCT03356860
Neoadjuvant MEDI4736 Concomitant With Weekly Nab-paclitaxel and Dose-dense AC for Stage I-III Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Durvalumab TNBC Phase I/II, single arm NCT02489448
Study of Immunotherapy in Combination With Chemotherapy in HER2-negative Inflammatory Breast Cancer (PELICAN) Pembrolizumab HER2-negative Phase II randomised open-label NCT03515798
Neoadjuvant Pembrolizumab + Decitabine Followed by Std Neoadj Chemo for Locally Advanced HER2- Breast Ca Pembrolizumab HER2-negative Phase II, 2-cohort, open-label NCT02957968
Neoadjuvant Phase II Study of Pembrolizumab And Carboplatin Plus Docetaxel in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer (NeoPACT) Pembrolizumab TNBC Phase II, open label NCT03639948
Carboplatin and Paclitaxel With or Without Atezolizumab Before Surgery in Treating Patients With Newly Diagnosed, Stage II-III Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Atezolizumab TNBC Phase II, randomised, open label NCT02883062
Nab-Paclitaxel and Atezolizumab Before Surgery in Treating Patients With Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Atezolizumab TNBC Phase II, open label NCT02530489
Pembrolizumab in Treating Patients With Hormone Receptor-Positive, Localised Inflammatory Breast Cancer Who Are Receiving Hormone Therapy and Did Not Achieve a Pathological Complete Response to Chemotherapy Pembrolizumab HR-positive, HER2-negative Phase II, open label NCT02971748
Pembrolizumab in Treating Patients With Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Pembrolizumab TNBC Phase III, randomised, open label NCT02954874
Neoadjuvant Pembrolizumab(Pbr)/Nab-Paclitaxel Followed by Pbr/Epirubicin/Cyclophosphamide in TNBC (NIB) Pembrolizumab TNBC Phase II, one-arm, open-label NCT03289819
Study of Pembrolizumab (MK-3475) Versus Placebo in Combination With Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy & Adjuvant Endocrine Therapy in the Treatment of Early-Stage Oestrogen Receptor-Positive, Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2-Negative (ER+/HER2-) Breast Cancer (MK-3475-756/KEYNOTE-756) Pembrolizumab HR-positive, HER2-negative Phase III, randomised, double-blind NCT03725059
Trial of Nivolumab With Chemotherapy as Neoadjuvant Treatment in Inflammatory Breast Cancer Nivolumab TNBC or HR-positive, HER2-negative Phase II, open label NCT03742986
Study of Nivolumab Versus Placebo in Participants With High-Risk Breast Cancer (CheckMate 7FL) Nivolumab HR-positive, HER2-negative Phase III, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled NCT04109066
Clinical Trial of Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy With Atezolizumab or Placebo in Patients With Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Followed After Surgery by Atezolizumab or Placebo Atezolizumab TNBC Phase III, randomised, double-blind, NCT03281954
Neoadjuvant Treatment of HER2-Positive Early High-Risk and Locally Advanced Breast Cancer (APTneo) Atezolizumab HER2-positive Phase III, randomised, open label NCT03595592
A Study to Investigate Atezolizumab and Chemotherapy Compared With Placebo and Chemotherapy in the Neoadjuvant Setting in Participants With Early-Stage Triple-Negative Breast Cancer (IMpassion031) Atezolizumab TNBC Phase III, double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled NCT03197935
Trials with PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitors and CDK4/6 inhibitors
Neoadjuvant Study of Abemaciclib, Durvalumab and an Aromatase Inhibitor Early-Stage Breast Cancer Durvalumab HR-positive, HER2-negative Early Phase I NCT04088032
A Study of Neoadjuvant Nivolumab + Abemaciclib or Palbociclib + Anastrozole in Post-Menopausal Women and Men With Primary Breast Cancer (CheckMate 7A8) Nivolumab HR-positive, HER2-negative Phase II, randomised, non-comparative, multi-arm, NCT04075604
Neoadjuvant Tamoxifen, Palbociclib, Avelumab in Oestrogen Receptor-Positive Breast Cancer (ImmunoADAPT) Avelumab HER2-positive Phase II, open label NCT03573648
Trials with PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitors and anti-HER2 treatment
TAHP for Patients With HER2-positive Early Breast Cancer and Subsequent AHP Adjuvant Therapy After Surgery Atezolizumab HER2-positive Phase IB-II NCT03881878
Atezolizumab in combination with trastuzumab emtansine or with trastuzumab and pertuzumab in patients with HER2-positive breast cancer and atezolizumab with doxorubicin and cyclophosphamide in HER2-negative breast cancer Atezolizumab HER2-positive Phase Ib, multi-cohort NCT02605915
Neoadjuvant Her2-targeted Therapy and Immunotherapy With Pembrolizumab Pembrolizumab HER2-positive Phase II open-label, randomised NCT03747120
A Study With Pembrolizumab in Combination With Dual Anti-HER2 Blockade With Trastuzumab and Pertuzumab in Early Breast Cancer Patients With Molecular HER2-enriched Intrinsic Subtype (Keyriched-1) Pembrolizumab HER2-positive Phase II, prospective, single arm, open label NCT03988036
A Study To Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety Of Atezolizumab or Placebo in Combination With Neoadjuvant Doxorubicin + Cyclophosphamide Followed By Paclitaxel + Trastuzumab + Pertuzumab In Early Her2-Positive Breast Cancer (IMpassion050) Atezolizumab HER2-positive Phase III, randomised, double-Blind, placebo-controlled NCT03726879
Improving Pre-operative Systemic Therapy for Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2 (HER2) Amplified Breast Cancer (PREDIX II HER2) Atezolizumab HER2-positive Phase II, randomised, open label NCT03894007
Trials with PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitors and Radiation treatment
Neo-adjuvant Chemotherapy Combined With Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy to the Primary Tumour +/- Durvalumab +/- Oleclumab in Luminal B Breast Cancer: (Neo-CheckRay) Durvalumab, Oleclumab Luminal B Phase II, randomised, open-label NCT03875573
Breast Cancer Study of Pre-Operative Pembrolizumab + Radiation Pembrolizumab TNBC or HR-positive, HER2-negative Phase I/II, single arm with two cohorts NCT03366844
Trials with vaccines
HER2 Directed Dendritic Cell Vaccine During Neoadjuvant Therapy of HER2+Breast Cancer Dendritic Cell Vaccine (DC1) HER2-positive Early Phase I NCT03387553
HER-2 Pulsed DC Vaccine to Prevent Recurrence of Invasive Breast Cancer Post Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy HER-2 pulsed Dendritic Cell Vaccine HER2-positive Phase I NCT02061423
Safety and Immunogenicity of a Personalised Synthetic Long Peptide Breast Cancer Vaccine Strategy in Patients With Persistent Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Following Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy Personalised synthetic long peptide vaccine TNBC Phase I, single-arm NCT02427581
Safety and Immunogenicity of a Personalised Polyepitope DNA Vaccine Strategy in Breast Cancer Patients With Persistent Triple-Negative Disease Following Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy Personalised polyepitope DNA vaccine TNBC Phase I open-label NCT02348320
Safety and Immune Response to a Mammaglobin-A DNA Vaccine In Breast Cancer Patients Undergoing Neoadjuvant Endocrine Therapy Mammaglobin-A DNA Vaccine HR-positive, HER2-negative Phase IB NCT02204098
Vaccination of High-Risk Breast Cancer Patients Chemovax HR-positive Phase I/II study, single-arm NCT02229084
Phase II Trial of Combination Immunotherapy With NeuVax and Trastuzumab in High-risk HER2+ Breast Cancer Patients NeuVax vaccine HER2-positive Phase II, prospective, randomised, single-blinded, placebo-controlled NCT02297698
Vaccination of Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Patients P10s-PADRE with MONTANIDE™ ISA 51 VG TNBC Phase II, randomised two-arm, open-label NCT02938442
Folate Receptor Alpha Peptide Vaccine With GM-CSF in Patients With Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Low dose FRα vaccine TNBC Phase II , randomised NCT02593227
TPIV100 and Sargramostim for the Treatment of HER2-Positive, Stage II-III Breast Cancer in Patients With Residual Disease After Chemotherapy and Surgery Vaccine Therapy HER2-positive Phase II, randomised NCT04197687
Trials with PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitors in combination with other immunotherapy drugs
Combination of Talimogene Laherparepvec With Atezolizumab in Early Breast Cancer (PROMETEO) Atezolizumab, T-VEC TNBC or HR-positive, HER2-negative Window opportunity, single arm, exploratory NCT03802604
M7824 in Treating Patients With Stage II-III HER2-Positive Breast Cancer anti-PD-L1/TGFbetaRII fusion protein M7824 HER2-positive Phase I NCT03620201
Converting HR+ Breast Cancer Into an Individualised Vaccine (CBCV) Pembrolizumab, CDX-301 HR-positive, HER2-negative phase II, randomised open-label NCT03804944
Peri-Operative Ipilimumab+Nivolumab and Cryoablation Versus Standard Care in Women With Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Ipilimumab, nivolumab TNBC Phase II, randomised, open label NCT03546686
TAC Chemotherapy and Pembrolizumab Plus Interleukin-12 Gene Therapy and L-NMMA in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Pembrolizumab TNBC Phase II, prospective, single arm, open label NCT04095689
Durvalumab and Endocrine Therapy in ER+/Her2- Breast Cancer After CD8+ Infiltration Effective Immune-Attractant Exposure (ULTIMATE) Durvalumab, Immune-attractant HR-positive, HER2-negative Phase II, open-label, single group assignment NCT02997995
Durvalumab and Tremelimumab Before Surgery in Treating Patients With Hormone Receptor-Positive, HER2-Negative Stage II-III Breast Cancer Durvalumab and Tremelimumab HR-positive, HER2-negative Early phase I NCT03132467
Pre-operative Immunotherapy Combination Strategies in Breast Cancer (ECLIPSE) Atezolizumab HR-positive, HER2-negative Phase II, open label, window of opportunity NCT03395899
Other immunotherapeutic approaches
Immunogenicity and Safety of DCs in Breast Cancer (TEBICA) Dendritic cells All Phase I/II, randomised NCT03450044
Targeted T Cells After Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Treating Women With Stage II or III Breast Cancer Undergoing Surgery HER2Bi-armed activated T cells TNBC Phase II, open label NCT01147016
Intratumoural TriMix Injections in Early Breast Cancer Patients (TMBA) Trimix All Phase I NCT03788083