The HeartSpare Study
- Conditions
- Breast cancerCancerMalignant neoplasm of breast
- Registration Number
- ISRCTN53585935
- Lead Sponsor
- The Royal Marsden Foundation Trust (UK)
- Brief Summary
2013 results in: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23726115 2015 results in: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25739317
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Female
- Target Recruitment
- 73
1. Complete microscopic excision of early stage invasive ductal or lobular carcinoma (pT1-3b N0-1 M0) of the left breast following breast conservation surgery or mastectomy
2. Recommendation for whole breast (Group A and B) or chest wall radiotherapy (Group A only) (with or without tumour bed boost)
3. Age =18
4. Performance status =1
5. Patients able to tolerate breath-ho
6. Target Gender: Female
7. Lower Age Limit is 18 years
1. Requirement for nodal irradiaion
2. Patients with micro- or macro-scopic disease on sentinel node biopsy who have not undergone completion axillary node clearance
3. Previous radiotherapy to any region above the diaphragm
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Group A: Reproducibility - interfraction reproducibility of patient position (mean daily displacements of chest wall) in v_DI
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Group B: Difference in mean LAD NTDmean - difference in mean normal tissue dose (NTDmean) (Gy) to left anterior-descending coronary artery