Early test: can a drug duo help the immune system fight breast cancer?

NCT ID NCT02999477

Summary

This small, early-stage study tested a combination of chemotherapy (nab-paclitaxel) and an immunotherapy drug (pembrolizumab) as a treatment before surgery for a common type of breast cancer. The main goal was to see how this combination changed a specific marker (PD-L1) on the participants' tumors. Researchers enrolled 32 people with hormone-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer to learn how their bodies and tumors responded to the two-drug approach.

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Contacts and locations

Locations

  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

    Boston, Massachusetts, 02215, United States

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