CAREFOR: Precision Medicine Driving Precision Nutrition for the Treatment of NeoAdjuvant Breast Cancer

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Breast Carcinoma
• Interventions: Behavioral: Behavioral Dietary Intervention

• Registration Number: NCT02827370
• Lead Sponsor: Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Thomas Jefferson University

Brief Summary

The purpose of the study is to determine if a targeted dietary change can enhance the effect of neo-adjuvant chemotherapy

Detailed Description

Primary objective:

I To determine if dietary alternations designed to downregulate the dominate molecular drivers of an individuals' breast cancer will enhance the effect of neoadjuvant chemotherapy and allow for an increase in the pathologic complete response rate.

Secondary objectives

I) Investigator measurable changes to molecular and patient characteristics from precision nutrition to determine a metric for evaluation this treatment in future studies.

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2016-06-13
• Study Start: 2016-06-16
• Study First Submitted QC: 2016-07-06
• Study First Posted: 2016-07-11
• Primary Completion: 2019-07-01
• Study Completion: 2019-12-15
• Status Verified: 2025-04
• Last Update Submitted: 2025-04-28
• Last Update Posted: 2025-04-29

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: Female
• Target Recruitment: 26

Inclusion Criteria

• Pathologically proven invasive breast cancer
• Planned neoadjuvant chemotherapy determined by the judgment of the medical oncologist
• The patient must be female
• Age ≥ 18
• Non-metastatic and non-inflammatory breast cancer
• History/physical examination, including breast exam and documentation of weight and Karnofsky Performance Status of 80-100% for at least 60 days prior to study entry.
• Women of childbearing potential must be non-pregnant and non-lactating and willing to use medically acceptable form of contraception during chemotherapy
• Patient must capable of and provide study specific informed consent prior to study entry
• BMI ≥21
• Weight ≥120lbs
• No prior history of non-breast malignancies in the past 1 year unless it was a non- melanomatous skin lesion or carcinoma in situ of the cervix.
• Patient must not have Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) or HIV positive based upon current CDC definition; note, however, that HIV testing is not required for entry into this protocol. The need to exclude patients with AIDS or HIV from this protocol is necessary because anti-retrovirals may alter patient metabolism.
• Patient may not have any active Gastrointestinal/Malabsorption disorder at the discretion of the Principal Investigator which may include:
• Chronic Pancreatitis
• Chronic Diarrhea or Vomiting
• Active Eating Disorder
• No history of or current active drug/alcohol dependence.
• No patients with decisional impairment.

Exclusion Criteria

• Patient is male.

• Age <18 years

• Clinical stage IV cancer

• Inflammatory breast cancer (T4d)

• Women of childbearing potential with a positive serum beta hCG.

• Decision impaired patients.

• BMI < 21

• Weight < 120lbs

• Weight loss ≥10% in the last 3 mos

• Prior invasive non-breast malignancy (except non-melanomatous skin cancer, carcinoma in situ of the cervix) unless disease free for a minimum of 1 year prior to registration

• Non-epithelial breast malignancies such as sarcoma or lymphoma

• Active Gastrointestinal/Malabsorption disorder at the discretion of the Principal -Investigator which may include:

  • Chronic Diarrhea or Vomiting
  • Active Eating Disorder
  • Active drug/alcohol dependence or abuse history.

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Precision Nutrition (dietary intervention)	Behavioral Dietary Intervention	During chemotherapy, patients will receive dietary counseling based on the molecular pathways driving their specific breast cancers found through genetic testing. Nutritional recommendations will seek to down-regulate the dominant molecular drivers of an individual's breast cancer while they are receiving standard chemotherapy as outlined by their treating medical oncologist.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Pathologic complete response assessed in tissue	At time of definitive breast surgery	The portion of patients who adhere to the diet restriction will be computed along with a 95% exact confidence. An exact binomial test (with a onesided alpha of 0.05) will also be used to test whether adherence is greater than 60%.
Incidence of adverse events evaluated by CTCAE version 4.0	Up to 24 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Number of study participants who receive the dietary intervention to the historical controls	Up to 24 months	Will be compared to historical controls. Will be based on logistic regression, which will control for patient characteristics and clinical factors. The study has 81% power to detect an odds ratio of about 0.25 using a 2-sided alpha of 0.05
Weight changes	Up to 24 months	Will be assessed by modeling body mass index as a function of time via mixed-effects regression.
Change in insulin	Up to 24 months	Will be assessed as a function of time via mixed-effects regression.
Distant metastases	Up to 24 months	Will be analyzed via the Kaplan-Meier method and the logrank test.
Progression-free survival	Up to 24 months	Kaplan-Meier curves will be generated and a log-rank value will be calculated.
Overall survival	Up to 24 months	Will be analyzed with the Kaplan-Meier method and Cox proportional hazards regression.
Change in serum	Up to 24 months	Will be assessed as a function of time via mixed-effects regression.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Thomas Jefferson Univeristy; 🇺🇸 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States