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Phase I Study of a Third-Generation Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulator, LY353381.HCl, in Metastatic Breast Cancer

From the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX; and Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, IN.

Address reprint requests to Clifford A Hudis, MD, Chief Breast Cancer Medicine Service, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Box #206, 1275 York Ave, New York, NY 10021.

PURPOSE: We conducted this phase I trial to determine the safety and toxicity profile of LY353381.HCl—a novel, potent, third-generation selective estrogen receptor modulator (SERM)—because this benzothiophene derivative demonstrated an SERM profile in preclinical studies.

PATIENTS AND METHODS: We studied 32 patients with recurrent or metastatic breast cancer. Patients were treated in four cohorts with oral daily doses of 10, 20, 50, and 100 mg. Pharmacokinetic sampling was performed during the first 72 hours following the first dose on day 1 and during the 24 hours after the day 57 dose. Eligibility criteria included Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance status of 0 to 2; no significant major organ dysfunction; and at least 3 weeks elapsed since most recent hormonal therapy, chemotherapy, and estrogen replacement therapy.

RESULTS: The median patient age was 56 years (range, 30 years to 76 years). The median number of prior chemotherapies for metastatic disease was one (range, zero to four), while the median number of prior hormone regimens for metastatic disease was two (range, zero to five). Receptor status was estrogen receptor (ER) positive and progesterone receptor (PR) positive, 19 patients; ER positive and PR negative, eight patients; ER positive and PR unknown, two patients; and ER and PR unknown, three patients. Dose-limiting toxicity was not observed. Treatment was well tolerated with mild to moderate hot flashes in 18 of 32 patients (56%) at all dose levels. Transvaginal ultrasound performed at baseline and after 12 weeks of treatment showed no endometrial thickening. Of the 32 patients evaluable for response, six patients had stable disease for at least 6 months with a median duration of 7.7 months (range, 6.2 months to 33.8 months). The pharmacokinetics of LY353381.HCl were generally linear with respect to time and studied dose range.

CONCLUSION: As predicted in preclinical testing, daily oral LY353381.HCl is safe, is well tolerated at all tested dose levels, and may be clinically beneficial in patients with extensively pretreated metastatic breast cancer. Further studies with LY353381 to evaluate the efficacy in patients with or without prior exposure to tamoxifen and fewer overall prior regimens are under way.

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