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Palliative breast radiotherapy in advanced incurable breast cancer

Phase 1
Conditions
Health Condition 1: null- Breast Cancer
Registration Number
CTRI/2015/12/006407
Lead Sponsor
Tata Medical Center
Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
Open to Recruitment
Sex
Not specified
Target Recruitment
30
Inclusion Criteria

1.ECOG-0,1,2

2.Locally advanced breast cancer which is not amenable to curative surgery as decided by multidisciplinary tumor board.

3.Metastatic breast cancer patients:awaiting palliative locoregional radiotherapy for symptom(pain bleeding, ulceration, impending fungation)control.

4.who have completed a scheduled course of palliative chemotherapy and is felt to benefit from local radiation therapy.

Exclusion Criteria

1.Breast reconstruction using implants

2.Concurrent cytotoxic chemotherapy

Study & Design

Study Type
Interventional
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
To assess the toxicity using CTCAE version 4 and LENT SOMA toxicity criteria, in <br/ ><br>advanced incurable breast cancer patients treated with hypofractionated radiotherapy <br/ ><br>schedule of 35GY in 10 fractions rather than 15 fractionsTimepoint: Acute toxicity will be assessed weekly during radiotherapy then monthy for 1st three month after completion of radiotherapy.
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
To assess the response of advanced incurable breast cancer patients treated with <br/ ><br>hypofractionated radiotherapy schedule of 35GY in 10fractions, 3 months after <br/ ><br>radiotherapy clinically and by regional PET-CT scan using PERCIST criteria <br/ ><br>To assess the impact of hypofractionated breast radiotherapy schedule of 35GY in 10 <br/ ><br>fractions over 2 weeks on quality of life in advanced incurable breast cancer patients using <br/ ><br>FACT B scores PHQ4 questionnaire <br/ ><br>Timepoint: Response assessment 3 month after completion of radiotherapy with clinical assessment and PET-CT scan <br/ ><br> <br/ ><br>QOL assessment just after completion and 3 months after completion of radiotherapy, then at 6 months and 1 year after completion of radiotherapy.
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