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Cavity Shaving in Breast Conserving Surgery for Breast Cancer Patients

Not Applicable
Completed
Conditions
Breast Cancer
Interventions
Procedure: Cavity shaving
Procedure: Standardized BCS+CM assessment.
Registration Number
NCT02648802
Lead Sponsor
Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University
Brief Summary

This randomized controlled trial is to evaluate the impact of additional cavity shaving (CS) on pathological cavity margin (CM) status in breast cancer patients. Patients receiving standard breast-conserving surgery (BCS) will be randomized to intra-operative CM assessment versus intra-operative CS followed by CM assessment. The primary objective of this study is to assess the impact of CS on intra-operative CM status, intra-operative re-excision rate, post-operative CM status and re-excision rate, cosmetic outcomes, and on intraoperative time and medical costs.

Detailed Description

After stratified and blocked randomization, the patients' name, admission ID and treatment assignment will be written on a slip of paper, and will be placed in a sealed envelop. A label with the patients' name and admission ID will be placed on the sealed envelop, which will be kept in a locked file. On the day of surgery, a research coordinator will bring the sealed envelope to the operation room. During the standard-of-care BCS, the tumor was excised with a rim of grossly normal tissue. Additional resections are allowed when any of the margins of the tumor-containing specimen were suspected to be inadequate on the basis of standard gross evaluation by surgeons. Prior to intra-operative CM assessment, the research co-ordinator will unseal the envelop and determine which procedure has been designated to the patient. The cosmetic outcome and the quality of life will be evaluated at the day of discharge, after completion of radiotherapy and one year by the patient herself, her partner and a research co-ordinator.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
Female
Target Recruitment
181
Inclusion Criteria
  • Female
  • At least 18 years of age and no more than 65 years of age
  • Able to understand and willing to sign an informed consent document
  • Willing and planning to undergo the breast-conserving surgery
  • ECOG≤ 2
Exclusion Criteria
  • Inflammatory breast cancer
  • Preference for mastectomy instead of breast-conserving surgery
  • Necessity to undergo oncoplastic breast surgery
  • Prior surgical treatment, including ultrasound-guided vacuum-assisted biopsy and excision biopsy.
  • Prior systemic therapy for this diagnosis, including neoadjuvant chemotherapy, neoadjuvant endocrine therapy.
  • History of prior breast/axillary radiation therapy
  • Known metastatic disease
  • Diagnosed as bilateral breast cancer or DCIS
  • History of other malignancy ≤ 5 years previous
  • Preoperation evaluation indicates tumor size>5cm
  • Preoperation evaluation indicates multicenter or multifocal breast cancer(including suspicious calcification on mammography)
  • Undergoing other clinical trials
  • With sever liver disfunction(Child-Pugh C)
  • With sever cardiac insufficiency
  • With sever renal disfunction
  • Pregnancy

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Cavity shaving and CM assessmentCavity shavingStandardized BCS with additional cavity shaving before CM assessment.
CM assessmentStandardized BCS+CM assessment.Standardized BCS with CM assessment.
Cavity shaving and CM assessmentStandardized BCS+CM assessment.Standardized BCS with additional cavity shaving before CM assessment.
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Positivity rate of CMs by intraoperative frozen section analysis.Completion of surgery for all enrolled patients (approximately 12 months)

Proportion of patients with at least one positive(invasive carcinoma or carcinoma in situ, excluding LCIS) CMs on intraoperative frozen section analysis

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Cost-effectiveness of cavity shaving in BCS as measured by operative time of the surgeryCompletion of surgery for all enrolled patients (approximately 12 months)

Surgery time(start from making the incision to closure) will be analyzed.

Rate of intra-operative re-excision for suspected/positive CMsCompletion of surgery for all enrolled patients (approximately 12 months)

For patients with positive CMs, intra-operative re-excision was required. For patients with suspected CMs,intra-operative re-excision is left to the surgeon's discretion

Intra-operative rate of suspected/positive CMCompletion of surgery for all enrolled patients (approximately 12 months)

Proportion of patients with at least one positive(invasive carcinoma or carcinoma in situ, excluding LCIS) or suspected CMs on intraoperative frozen section analysis. Suspected CMs were defined as CMs with severe atypical hyperplasia observed by frozen section analysis.

Rate of a second-time surgery for post-operative positive CMsCompletion of surgery for all enrolled patients (approximately 12 months)

Positive CMs by post-operative pathological analysis may require a second-time surgery for re-excision.

Proportion of patients successfully undergone BCTCompletion of surgery for all enrolled patients (approximately 12 months)
Adverse eventsOne year after surgery.
Quality of life.One year after surgery.

Chinese version of validated QLQ-C30 and QLQ-BR23 questionnaire

Cosmetic outcomeOne year after surgery.

Patients', partners' and physicians' perceptions of the cosmetic outcomes as measured by Harvard/NSABP/RTOG criteria

Cost-effectiveness of cavity shaving in BCS as measured by medical cost of the surgeryCompletion of surgery for all enrolled patients (approximately 12 months)

Medical costs will be analyzed.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Sun-Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital of Sun-Yat-Sen University

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Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

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