Study Assessing the Efficacy and Safety of Alpelisib Plus Fulvestrant in Men and Postmenopausal Women With Advanced Breast Cancer Which Progressed on or After Aromatase Inhibitor Treatment.

NCT02437318 · SOLAR-1 Phase 3Completed

Lead sponsor
Novartis Pharmaceuticals (Industry)
Enrollment
572 (actual)
Start date
23 Jul 2015
Primary completion
12 Jun 2018 (actual)
Study completion
9 Jun 2023
Last update posted
13 Feb 2025

Design

Study type
Interventional
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel
Masking
Triple
Arms
2

Interventions

  • Fulvestrant Drug
  • Alpelisib Drug
  • Placebo Drug

Conditions and primary outcome

  • Breast Cancer

Primary outcome

Progression-free Survival (PFS) Per Investigator Assessment in the PIK3CA Mutant Cohort (Once approximately 243 PFS events in the PIK3CA mutant cohort had been observed, up to 33.3 months)

Posted results on ClinicalTrials.gov

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First posted · Last update posted · Imported from ClinicalTrials.gov download 2026-10-25

Primary outcomes with a statistical analysis

  1. Progression-free Survival (PFS) Per Investigator Assessment in the PIK3CA Mutant Cohort

    Time frame
    Once approximately 243 PFS events in the PIK3CA mutant cohort had been observed, up to 33.3 months
    Measure
    Median
    Unit
    Months
    • PIK3CA Mutant Cohort by Tumor Tissue: Alpelisib + Fulvestrant vs PIK3CA Mutant Cohort by Tumor Tissue: Placebo + FulvestrantSuperiority

      Estimate
      0.65Hazard Ratio (HR)
      95% CI, two-sided
      0.50 to 0.85
      p-value
      0.00065
      Method
      Log Rank

Serious adverse events

Time frame: All-cause mortality: from randomization up to approx. 6.5 years, including post-treatment survival follow up period. Serious and Other Adverse Events: from first dose of study treatment until 30 days after last dose up to approx. 6.5 years

Participants with serious adverse events per group for SOLAR-1, as posted
GroupAffectedAt risk
Alpelisib + Fulvestrant110284
Placebo + Fulvestrant54287
Alpelisib + Fulvestrant (Post-treatment Survival Follow-up)00
Placebo + Fulvestrant (Post-treatment Survival Follow-up)00

Posted results as ClinicalTrials.gov prints them: primary outcome analyses and serious adverse event totals only. Registry facts, not reviewed by HealthTrade and not investment advice; filing-derived results are listed separately.

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Results from company and journal sources

No editor-confirmed results are on record for this study.

Publications

6 on PubMed
  1. SGLT2 inhibition improves PI3Kα inhibitor-induced hyperglycemia: findings from preclinical animal models and from patients in the BYLieve and SOLAR-1 trials.

    Breast cancer research and treatment · 2024 Nov

  2. A risk analysis of alpelisib-induced hyperglycemia in patients with advanced solid tumors and breast cancer.

    Breast cancer research : BCR · 2024 Mar 4

  3. Patient-Reported Outcomes in Patients With PIK3CA-Mutated Hormone Receptor-Positive, Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2-Negative Advanced Breast Cancer From SOLAR-1.

    Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology · 2021 Jun 20

  4. Alpelisib plus fulvestrant for PIK3CA-mutated, hormone receptor-positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor-2-negative advanced breast cancer: final overall survival results from SOLAR-1.

    Annals of oncology : official journal of the European Society for Medical Oncology · 2021 Feb

  5. Time course and management of key adverse events during the randomized phase III SOLAR-1 study of PI3K inhibitor alpelisib plus fulvestrant in patients with HR-positive advanced breast cancer.

    Annals of oncology : official journal of the European Society for Medical Oncology · 2020 Aug

  6. Alpelisib for PIK3CA-Mutated, Hormone Receptor-Positive Advanced Breast Cancer.

    The New England journal of medicine · 2019 May 16

Citations from PubMed, U.S. National Library of Medicine; abstracts are not stored. A publication lists this study’s NCT number and may be a review that cites many studies.

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