Cynthia X Ma, Vera Suman, Matthew P Goetz, Donald Northfelt, Mark E Burkard, Foluso Ademuyiwa, Michael Naughton, Julie Margenthaler, Rebecca Aft, Richard Gray, Amye Tevaarwerk, Lee Wilke, Tufia Haddad, Timothy Moynihan, Charles Loprinzi, Tina Hieken, Erica K Barnell, Zachary L Skidmore, Yan-Yang Feng, Kilannin Krysiak, Jeremy Hoog, Zhanfang Guo, Leslie Nehring, Kari B Wisinski, Elaine Mardis, Ian S Hagemann, Kiran Vij, Souzan Sanati, Hussam Al-Kateb, Obi L Griffith, Malachi Griffith, Laurence Doyle, Charles Erlichman, Matthew J Ellis
Purpose: Hyperactivation of AKT is common and associated with endocrine resistance in estrogen receptor-positive (ER+ ) breast cancer. The allosteric pan-AKT inhibitor MK-2206 induced apoptosis in PIK3CA -mutant ER+ breast cancer under estrogen-deprived condition in preclinical studies. This neoadjuvant phase II trial was therefore conducted to test the hypothesis that adding MK-2206 to anastrozole induces pathologic complete response (pCR) in PIK3CA mutant ER+ breast cancer. Experimental Design: Potential eligible patients with clinical stage II/III ER+ /HER2- breast cancer were preregistered and received anastrozole (goserelin if premenopausal) for 28 days in cycle 0 pending tumor PIK3CA sequencing...
November 15, 2017: Clinical Cancer Research