About this trial
The purpose of this study is to evaluate use of lovastatin, a drug that may lower CAV-1 levels, in order to increase HER2 expression on cells and enhance the uptake and efficacy of trastuzumab deruxtecan (T-DXd) in HER2-low and ultralow advanced metastatic breast cancer. Trastuzumab deruxtecan (T-DXd) is an FDA approved antibody drug conjugate for HER2-low and ultralow breast cancer and lovastatin is a cholesterol lowering agent.
Eligibility criteria
Qualifiers
Histologically or cytologically confirmed HER2 low (IHC 1+ or 2+ with negative in-situ hybridization) or ultralow (IHC 0 with incomplete/faint membrane staining in >0 but ≤10% of tumor cells) breast cancer. Patients may be advanced/unresectable or metastatic.
Patients must have received no more than 1 prior line of chemotherapy (e.g. capecitabine). There is no limit on the prior number of endocrine-based therapies for patients with hormone-receptor positivity.
Measurable disease per RECIST 1.1.
At least 18 years of age.
Disqualifiers
Prior treatment with T-DXd or other topoisomerase I ADC including sacituzumab govitecan, datopotamab deruxtecan, or investigational ADCs with topoisomerase I payloads.
Prior statin use within 7 days prior to C1D-1.
Patients with unresolved toxicities from previous anticancer therapy, defined as toxicities (other than alopecia) not yet resolved to grade ≤1 or baseline. Participants with chronic grade 2 toxicities may be eligible per the discretion of the Investigator after consultation with the Study PI or designee (e.g., grade 2 chemotherapy-induced neuropathy).
Prior or concurrent malignancy whose natural history has the potential to interfere with the safety or efficacy assessment of the investigational regimen. Patients with prior or concurrent malignancy that does NOT meet that definition are eligible for this trial
Trial design
Treatments tested in this trial
- Trastuzumab deruxtecan
- Lovastatin