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A Phase 3 Randomized, Placebo-Controlled, Double-Blind Study of Oral CCI-779 Administered in Combination With Letrozole vs. Letrozole Alone as First Line Hormonal Therapy in Postmenopausal Women With Locally Advanced or Metastatic Breast Cancer

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What is being tested

Data Collection

Who is being recruted

Breast Diseases
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+ Breast Neoplasms
+ Neoplasm Metastasis
Over 18 Years
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How is the trial designed

Treatment Study

Phase 3
Interventional
Study Start: May 2004
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Summary

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Study start date: May 1, 2004Actual date on which the first participant was enrolled.

In this clinical research study, postmenopausal subjects with metastatic breast cancer will be given either the combination of temsirolimus (CCI-779) and letrozole or a placebo and letrozole in first-line hormonal treatment. The primary endpoint of this study is to determine overall progression free survival. Individual subjects will participate in the active treatment phase of the study until disease progression or withdrawal of consent, provided that test article is being tolerated. All subjects will be asked to participate in the long-term follow-up phase of the study, which includes follow-up every 3 months until disease progression (for subjects who withdraw for reasons other than documented progressive disease) or until any new cancer treatment is received, and for survival. The estimated duration of study participation is 34 months.

Official TitleA Phase 3 Randomized, Placebo-Controlled, Double-Blind Study of Oral CCI-779 Administered in Combination With Letrozole vs. Letrozole Alone as First Line Hormonal Therapy in Postmenopausal Women With Locally Advanced or Metastatic Breast Cancer 
NCT00083993
Principal SponsorWyeth is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Pfizer
Last updated: January 14, 2026
Sourced from a government-validated database.Claim as a partner

Protocol

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.
Design Details
1236 patients to be enrolledTotal number of participants that the clinical trial aims to recruit.
Treatment Study
These studies test new ways to treat a disease, condition, or health issue. The goal is to see if a new drug, therapy, or approach works better or has fewer side effects than existing options.

How participants are assigned to different groups/arms
In this clinical study, participants are placed into groups randomly, like flipping a coin. This ensures that the study is fair and unbiased, making the results more reliable. By assigning participants by chance, researchers can better compare treatments without external influences.

Other Ways to Assign Participants
Non-randomized allocation: Participants are assigned based on specific factors, such as their medical condition or a doctor's decision.
None (Single-arm trial): If the study has only one group, all participants receive the same treatment, and no allocation is needed.

How treatments are given to participants
Participants are divided into different groups, each receiving a specific treatment at the same time. This helps researchers compare how well different treatments work against each other.

Other Ways to Assign Treatments
Single-group assignment: Everyone gets the same treatment.
Cross-over assignment: Participants switch between treatments during the study.
Factorial assignment: Participants receive different combinations of treatments.
Sequential assignment: Participants receive treatments one after another in a specific order, possibly based on individual responses.
Other assignment: Treatment assignment does not follow a standard or predefined design.

How the interventions assigned to participants is kept confidential
Neither participants nor researchers know who is receiving which treatment. This is the most rigorous way to reduce bias, ensuring that expectations do not influence the results.

Other Ways to Mask Information
Open-label: Everyone knows which treatment is being given.
Single-blind: Participants do not know which treatment they are receiving, but researchers do.
Triple-blind: Participants, researchers, and outcome assessors do not know which treatment is given.
Quadruple-blind: Participants, researchers, outcome assessors, and care providers all do not know which treatment is given.

Eligibility

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria: person's general health condition or prior treatments.
Conditions
Criteria
FemaleBiological sex of participants that are eligible to enroll.
Over 18 YearsRange of ages for which participants are eligible to join.
Healthy volunteers not allowedIf individuals who are healthy and do not have the condition being studied can participate.
Conditions
Pathology
Breast Diseases
Breast Neoplasms
Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasms
Neoplasms by Site
Neoplastic Processes
Pathologic Processes
Skin Diseases
Criteria

Inclusion Criteria: * Women aged greater than 18 years. * Postmenopausal subjects * Confirmed diagnosis of locally advanced (not amenable to curative surgery and/or radiation) or metastatic breast cancer (Stage 3B or 4 respectively, by American Joint Committee on Cancer Criteria) Exclusion Criteria: * Extensive visceral disease * Subjects with bone as the only site of disease * Prior radiation therapy to the site of measurable disease for subjects with a solitary measurable lesion

Study Plan

Find out more about all the medication administered in this study, their detailed description and what they involve.
Study Objectives
Study Objectives
Primary Objectives

Secondary Objectives

Study Centers

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