PiA Trial: a Cross-sectional, Multicenter, Consecutive Cohort Evaluating the Distribution of uPA/PAI-1 Versus St. Gallen Algorithm in >1000 Prospectively Included Patients
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 入组人数
- 1,000
- 主要终点
- Event free survival
研究概览
简要总结
The improvement of the healing rates for breast cancer is based to an important part on the consistent use of so-called adjuvant ("supporting ") medicamentous therapies, including chemotherapy. However this success has a price due to still inaccurate knowledge of the individual risk of relapse: a high number of unnecessary therapies are applied (over-therapy!). The invasion factors uPA (plasminogen activator of the urokinase type) and PAI-1 (uPA inhibitor) were described extensively as strong and independent prognosis factors with high clinical relevance for patients with node negative breast cancer. Compared to clinical and pathological factors (further: "traditional factors ") they show better estimation of the relapse risk leading to an avoidance of redundant adjuvant chemotherapy and may thus essentially contribute to the improvement of the quality of life in these women. In this study we aim to evaluate, how large the portion of the patients with early, operable, node negative breast cancer will be, in whom, by improved low-risk identification through uPA/PAI-1, adjuvant chemotherapy can be omitted.
详细描述
The determination of the prognostic factors uPA/PAI-1 (further: "biological") is established and recommend by recent guidelines. However, so far data can only show their independent and strong prognostic influence. The absolute proportion of patients, which profit from the improved risk assessment, is only estimated from old trials with different patient populations.
Depending upon assessment, the proportion of low risk patients by traditional risk assessment is 20 - 40%, by biological assessment 35 - 55% of all node negative patients. The data from investigations of historic populations are not reproducible now because of smaller tumor size at presentation due to diagnostic procedures (Screening, good public promotion).
The effectiveness and clinical relevance of the risk assessment were already confirmed for the biological prognostic factors uPA/PAI-1 in node negative breast cancer in several retrospective and prospective trials as well as in a meta-analysis. Still these biological factors (or others!) are not yet established into nationwide clinical routine in Germany. This is due to higher expenditure of this method for the primary therapy (uPA/PAI-1 is determined in the shock-frozen tissue), on the other hand due to the absence of reimbursement. Therefore presently in many centres risk estimation and associated therapy decision is done by traditional assessment.
In order to justify the higher expenditure and the additional costs by the uPA/PAI-1-determination, not only the clear proof of the advantage for the individual patient, but also the estimation of the extent of this advantage in all applicable patients is necessary.
A first goal of this project is to compare the respective proportion of patients allocated as high- or low-risk by means of biological and also traditional prognosis factors in a defined consecutive patient cohort. The determination of uPA/PAI-1 should be established as standard procedure in the future.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Observational
- 观察模型
- Cohort
- 时间视角
- Prospective
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- Female
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •newly diagnosed breast cancer
- •no metastasis detected
- •operation for breast cancer
- •female patient
- •unilateral breast cancer
- •informed consent given
- •age min. 18 yrs.
排除标准
- •metastasis of breast cancer
- •bilateral breast cancer
- •other cancer within the last 5yrs
结局指标
主要结局
Event free survival
时间窗: 2.5 years minimum observation time
All patients will be followed after a minimum observation time of 2.5 years.
次要结局
- Overall survival(2.5 years)
研究者
Eva Johanna Kantelhardt
Dr. med. E. Kantelhardt
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg