2024-514376-40-00RecruitingPhase 2
A clinical study of patritumab deruxtecan in people with breast cancer
An Open-label Randomized Phase 2 Study to Evaluate Safety and Efficacy of Patritumab Deruxtecan Plus Pembrolizumab Administered Either Before or After Carboplatin/Paclitaxel Plus Pembrolizumab Compared With Pembrolizumab in Combination With Chemotherapy Followed by Surgery and Adjuvant Pembrolizumab for High-Risk Early-Stage Triple-Negative or Hormone Receptor-Low Positive/Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor-2 Negative Breast Cancer (HERTHENA-Breast03)
Source: EU CTIS (euclinicaltrials.eu) · Last updated 8 Oct 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
1. Part 1 Objective: To evaluate safety and tolerability of neoadjuvant patritumab deruxtecan (HER3-DXd) plus pembrolizumab before carboplatin/ paclitaxel plus pembrolizumab. 2. Part 2 Objective: To compare HER3-DXd plus pembrolizumab before carboplatin/paclitaxel plus pembrolizumab versus carboplatin/paclitaxel plus pembrolizumab followed by AC/EC plus pembrolizumab with respect to rate of pCR (ypT0/Tis ypN0) at the time of definitive surgery, as assessed by local pathologist. 3. Part 2 Objective: To compare HER3-DXd plus pembrolizumab after carboplatin/paclitaxel plus pembrolizumab versus carboplatin/paclitaxel plus pembrolizumab followed by AC/EC plus pembrolizumab with respect to rate of pCR (ypT0/Tis ypN0) at the time of definitive surgery, as assessed by local pathologist. 4. Part 2: To evaluate safety and tolerability of study interventions in all arms.
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Phase (registry)
- Phase 2
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 10 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 17 Jan 2025
- Start date
- 15 Oct 2025
- Lead sponsor
- Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
- Diseases
- Triple-negative breast cancer
- EU CT number
- 2024-514376-40-00
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional · Phase 2
- Planned participants: 10
- 7 sites in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
Copied verbatim from EU CTIS (euclinicaltrials.eu) and grouped by topic. Only the trial team decides who can take part.
Prior treatment
- Has concurrent active HBV and HCV infection
- Has received prior therapy with an anti-programmed death (PD)-1, anti-PD-L1, or anti-PD-L2 agent, or with an agent directed to another stimulatory or coinhibitory T-cell receptor
- Has received any prior treatment, including radiation, systemic therapy, and/or definitive surgery for currently diagnosed breast cancer
- Has received prior treatment with an anti-human epidermal growth factor receptor 3 (HER3) antibody and/or antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) that consists of an exatecan derivative that is a topoisomerase I inhibitor (e.g., trastuzumab deruxtecan)
Other illness
- Has uncontrolled or significant cardiovascular disease before randomization
- Has known additional malignancy that is progressing or has required active treatment within the past 5 years
- Has any history of interstitial lung disease (ILD)/pneumonitis irrespective of steroid use, or current or suspected ILD
- Has an active infection requiring systemic therapy
- Has clinically severe respiratory compromise resulting from intercurrent pulmonary illness
- Has any history of or evidence of any current leptomeningeal carcinomatosis
- Has clinically significant corneal disease
- Has human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection with a history of Kaposi sarcoma and/or multicentric Castleman disease
- Has evidence of ongoing, uncontrolled, systemic bacterial, fungal, or viral infection
- Has metastatic (Stage IV) breast cancer or cN3 nodal involvement.
Other
- Has known active central nervous system (CNS) metastases and/or carcinomatous meningitis
Who the study is looking for
- Has locally advanced, non-metastatic (M0), breast cancer, defined as any of the following combined primary tumor (T) and regional lymph node (N) staging per current American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) criteria: cT1c, N1-N2; cT2, N0-N2; cT3, N0-N2; or cT4a-d, N0-N2
- Has centrally confirmed diagnosis of breast cancer that is triple-negative or HR-low+/HER2- breast cancer that will be treated according to the triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) paradigm
- Participants who are Hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) positive are eligible if they have received Hepatitis B virus (HBV) antiviral therapy for at least 4 weeks and have undetectable HBV viral load
- Participants with a history of Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection are eligible if HCV viral load is undetectable
- Has an Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0 to 1 within 28 days prior to allocation/randomization
- Has left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) of ≥50% or ≥ lower limit of normal (LLN) as assessed by echocardiogram (ECHO) or multigate acquisition scan (MUGA) scan
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (7)
Sites in registry order. Save your city in your profile to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Institut Catala d'Oncologia | Badalona | Spain | Recruiting |
| Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron | Barcelona | Spain | Recruiting |
| Hospital Universitario Reina Sofia | Córdoba | Spain | Recruiting |
| Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre | Madrid | Spain | Recruiting |
| Clinica Universidad de Navarra | Madrid | Spain | Recruiting |
| Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Victoria | Málaga | Spain | Recruiting |
| Fundación Instituto Valenciano de Oncología | Valencia | Spain | Recruiting |
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