Description Module
The Description Module contains narrative descriptions of the clinical trial, including a brief summary and detailed description. These descriptions provide important information about the study's purpose, methodology, and key details in language accessible to both researchers and the general public.
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Description Module
Ignite Creation Date:
2025-12-25 @ 2:10 AM
Ignite Modification Date:
2025-12-25 @ 2:10 AM
NCT ID:
NCT01773460
Brief Summary:
Everolimus will be given to patients with metastatic breast cancer who already has a progress taking Everolimus but with a change in the endocrine treatment.
Detailed Description:
With continuation of endocrine treatment of breast cancer an adaptive upregulation of different signaling cascades including the PI3K/akt/mTOR pathway results in cell growth stimulation and results in resistance to endocrine therapies. One way to restore endocrine sensitivity is the inhibition of the mTOR pathway in combination with endocrine therapy leading to an increase in PFS compared with endocrine therapy alone. Guidelines recommend the sequential treatment with different endocrine therapies. It therefore appears reasonable to explore if sensitivity can be restored by changing the subsequent endocrine combination partner of Everolimus in case of failure of a combined endocrine-everolimus therapy.
Study:
NCT01773460
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT01773460