Cheaper breast cancer drug copy put to the test – but trial ends early

Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.

Inclusion Criteria: 1. Patient willing and able to sign informed consent and to follow the protocol requirements 2. Female patients aged ≥ 18 years at the time of Screening 3. Patient with Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) Performance Status \< 2 4. Patients with breast cancer that meets the following criteria: 1. A known case of histologically confirmed invasive breast carcinoma with a primary tumor size of \> 2 cm by standard local assessment technique 2. stage at presentation: early stage (T2-3, N0-1, M0) or locally advanced (T2-3, N2 or N3, M0; T4a-c, any N, M0) or inflammatory (T4d, any N, M0) 5. Patients with HER2 overexpression by Immunohistochemistry (IHC) (defined as IHC 3+, or IHC 2+ with Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization (FISH) confirmation) as per the American Society of Clinical Oncology/College of American Pathologist (ASCO-CAP) guidelines prior to Screening and confirmed centrally before randomization 6. Patients with known HR-ve status (ER-negative and PR-negative) as per local laboratory prior to Screening and confirmed centrally before randomization 7. Patient willing to undergo mastectomy or breast-conserving surgery after neoadjuvant therapy 8. Patient who completes all necessary baseline laboratory and radiologic investigations prior to randomization as per Schedule of assessment (SoA) 9. Patient with baseline left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) ≥ 55% measured by echocardiography (ECHO; preferred) or multiple-gated acquisition (MUGA) scan 10. Patient is eligible to participant if she is not pregnant, not breastfeeding, and at least one of the following conditions applies: Exclusion Criteria: 1. Patients with metastatic or recurrent bilateral breast cancer, or bilateral breast cancer 2. Patients with a history of concurrent or previously treated non-breast malignancies. A patient with previous invasive non-breast cancer is eligible provided she has been disease free for more than 5 years 3. Patients who have received any previous systemic therapy (including chemotherapy, immunotherapy, HER2-targeted agents, and antitumor vaccines) for treatment or prevention of breast cancer, or radiation therapy for treatment of cancer 4. Concurrent anti-cancer treatment in another investigational study, including hormone therapy or immunotherapy 5. Major surgical procedure that is unrelated to breast cancer within 4 weeks prior to randomization or from which the patient has not fully recovered 6. Serious cardiac illness or medical condition including but not limited to the following as per Investigator's discretion: 1. Patients with ≥ Class II stage of heart failure as per New York Heart Association Classification 2. High risk uncontrolled arrhythmia, such as atrial tachycardia with a heart rate \> 100 bpm at rest, significant ventricular arrhythmia (e.g., ventricular tachycardia) required treatment, or higher-grade atrioventricular (AV) block (i.e., Mobitz II second-degree AV block or third-degree AV block) 3. History of myocardial infarction or unstable angina pectoris within 1 year of randomization or angina pectoris requiring anti-anginal medication 4. Evidence of transmural infarction on ECG 5. Clinically significant valvular heart disease 6. Poorly controlled hypertension (systolic blood pressure \> 180 mmHg and/or diastolic blood pressure \> 100 mmHg) in patients on anti-hypertensive medications 7. Other concurrent serious diseases that may interfere with study primary endpoint and other study assessments, including, but not limited to, severe pulmonary conditions/illness, active liver disease (for example, active viral hepatitis infection \[i.e., hepatitis B or hepatitis C\]), autoimmune disorders, history of or known patient of sclerosing cholangitis, or infection with Human immune deficiency virus (HIV) 8. Patients with a history of any contraindication to the study treatment regimens 9. Any of the following abnormal laboratory test results prior to randomization: 1. Total bilirubin \> upper limit of normal (ULN) or, for cases of known Gilbert's syndrome, total bilirubin \> 2 × ULN 2. Aspartate aminotransferase and/or alanine aminotransferase \> 1.5 × ULN, if considered clinically significant by Investigator 3. Alkaline phosphatase \>2.5 × ULN, if considered clinically significant by Investigator 4. Serum creatinine \> 1.5 × ULN 5. Creatinine clearance \< 60 mL/min 6. Total white blood cells count \< 2500 cells/μL 7. Absolute neutrophil count \< 2000 cells/μL 8. Platelet count \< 100,000 cells/μL 10. Participation in any clinical study with an investigational drug, biologic, or device within 1 month prior or within five half-lives (of the drug/ biologic) prior to the enrolment (whichever is longer) 11. Have taken any live vaccines 30 days prior to the 1st dose of study treatment 12. Any known hypersensitivity to any of the study medications, any of the ingredients or excipients of these medications, or benzyl alcohol 13. Patients unwilling to follow the study requirements. 14. Presence of an uncontrolled, unstable, clinically significant medical condition that, in the opinion of the Investigator, may interfere with the interpretation of efficacy and safety parameters or has a medical condition for which the treatment should take precedence over study participation or will interfere with study participation \-