AbbVie’s PARP inhibitor veliparib is highly active in triple negative breast cancer
This morning Dr Hope Rugo, Professor of medicine and director of breast oncology and clinical trials education at UCSF, presented the first ever efficacy results from the I-SPY 2 trial in neoadjuvant breast cancer during the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS) press briefing.
The complex adaptive phase 2 trial design was developed by Dr Laura Esserman, Professor of surgery and radiology at UCSF and Dr Don Berry, Professor of biostatistics at MD Anderson Cancer Center. Dr Berry was no doubt very familiar and experienced with this concept from the adaptive BATTLE trials in lung cancer that MD Anderson have previously completed.
The data discussed here is from one arm from the study, which currently evaluates different investigational regimens in 7 different arms.
The overall goal of the I-SPY 2 experiment was to screen a series of novel agents in combination with standard chemotherapy in the neoadjuvant setting. Patients were randomized to receive a novel regimen given in combination with standard chemotherapy, or standard chemotherapy alone.
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