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Single-dose Preoperative Partial Breast Irradiation in Low-risk Breast Cancer Patients

Not Applicable
Recruiting
Conditions
Breast Cancer
Interventions
Radiation: Single dose ablative radiotherapy
Registration Number
NCT05350722
Lead Sponsor
Amsterdam UMC, location VUmc
Brief Summary

In this ABLATIVE-2 trial, low-risk breast cancer patients will be treated with MRI-guided single dose preoperative partial breast radiotherapy to assess the rate of pathologic complete response after an interval of six to twelve months between radiotherapy and surgery. Response monitoring will be assessed using MRI and markers in blood and tumor tissue to enable prediction of pathologic response.

Detailed Description

Patients will receive single-dose preoperative radiotherapy followed by breast conserving surgery (BCS) at 12 months after radiotherapy, as long as follow-up MRI scans show a complete radiologic response. In case of incomplete radiologic response, BCS will be performed at 6 months after radiotherapy. BCS is performed earlier when progressive disease is found on MRI. In the follow-up period between radiotherapy and surgery, tumor response will be monitored using MRI every 3 months. After surgery, patients will be followed up until 10 years after radiotherapy treatment to assess oncological outcomes, toxicity, cosmetic outcome and quality of life.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
RECRUITING
Sex
Female
Target Recruitment
100
Inclusion Criteria
  • WHO performance scale ≤2.

  • Females at least 50 years of age with unifocal cT1N0 breast cancer on mammography, ultrasound and MRI.

    • Patients with an indication for chemotherapy or HER2-targeted therapy according to Dutch National Oncoline Guidelines or own hospital protocols are not eligible. Patients with an indication for endocrine therapy are eligible.
    • Tumor size as assessed on MRI.
  • On tumor biopsy:

    • Bloom-Richardson grade 1 or 2.
    • Non-lobular invasive histological type carcinoma.
    • LCIS or (non-extensive) DCIS is accepted.
    • ER positive tumor receptor.
    • HER2 negative tumor.
  • Tumor-negative sentinel node (excluding isolated tumor cells).

  • Adequate communication and understanding skills of the Dutch language.

Exclusion Criteria
  • Legal incapacity.
  • BRCA1, BRCA2 or CHEK2 gene mutation.
  • Distant metastasis.
  • Previous history of breast cancer or DCIS.
  • Other type of malignancy within 5 years before breast cancer diagnosis. Patients with adequately treated malignancy longer than 5 years before breast cancer diagnosis are eligible for inclusion.
  • For adequately treated carcinoma in situ of the cervix or basal cell carcinoma of the skin no specific time span to breast cancer diagnosis is required for inclusion.
  • Collagen synthesis disease.
  • Signs of extensive DCIS component on histological biopsy or on imaging (e.g. no extensive calcifications on mammography).
  • Invasive lobular carcinoma.
  • MRI absolute contraindications as defined by the Department of Radiology.
  • Nodal involvement with cytological or histological confirmation.
  • Indication for treatment with (neo-)adjuvant chemotherapy.
  • Non-feasible dosimetric RT plan.

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
SINGLE_GROUP
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Pre-operative single dose partial breast irradiationSingle dose ablative radiotherapy-
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Pathologic complete response12 months after radiotherapy

pCR is defined as the absence of residual invasive cancer on resected breast specimen

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Overall survivalDay of radiotherapy till end of follow-up of 10 years

Overall survival will be calculated from the date of the radiotherapy treatment until the time of breast-cancer related death or breast-cancer unrelated death.

Patient quality of lifeat baseline, 2 weeks, 3, 6, 9, 12 months, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 10 years after radiotherapy

PROMs are assessed using the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer core-30 quality of life questionnaire (EORTC QLQ-C30)

Breast cancer specific quality of lifeat baseline, 2 weeks, 3, 6, 9, 12 months, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 10 years after radiotherapy

PROMs are assessed using the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer breast cancer-specific quality of life questionnaire (EORTC QLQ-BR23)

Radiologic complete responseat baseline, 2 weeks, 3, 6, 9, and 12 months after radiotherapy

Radiologic complete response (rCR) is defined as complete absence of pathologic contrast enhancement in the original tumor bed and complete absence of pathologic ADC (apparent diffusion coefficient) reduction in the original tumor bed. rCR is reported according to the Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) 1.1 guidelines.

Physician reported cosmetic outcomeat baseline, 2 weeks, 3, 6, 9, 12 months, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 10 years after radiotherapy

Cosmetic outcome is assessed by the physician using a questionnaire

Objective cosmetic outcomeat baseline, 2 weeks, 3, 6, 9, 12 months, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 10 years after radiotherapy

Cosmetic outcome is assessed objectively using images captured using the VECTRA XT 3D-imaging system. This three-dimensional surface-imaging system uses stereophotogrammetry to estimate x, y, z coordinates of the imaged surface. These coordinates will be used to calculate the volume-shape-symmetry measure.

Radiotherapy-associated immune response markers12 months after radiotherapy

Immune response markers as CD3, CD4, CD8 and FOXP3 will be assessed in tumor tissue after surgery.

Treatment-related adverse eventsat baseline, 2 weeks, 3, 6, 9, 12 months, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 10 years after radiotherapy

Number of participants with treatment-related adverse events as assessed by the Common Terminology Criteria Adverse Events version 5.0

Patient distressat baseline, 2 weeks, 3, 6, 9, 12 months, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 10 years after radiotherapy

PROMs are assessed using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) questionnaire

Patient reported cosmetic outcomeat baseline, 2 weeks, 3, 6, 9, 12 months, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 10 years after radiotherapy

Cosmetic outcome is assessed by the patient using the BREAST-Q questionnaire. .

Local, regional and distant relapse ratesDay of radiotherapy till end of follow-up of 10 years

A local recurrence is defined as disease occurrence in the ipsilateral breast. A regional recurrence is defined as nodal occurrence in the ipsilateral axilla, internal mammary, infraclavicular or supraclavicular region. A distant metastasis defined as disease occurrence in the contralateral breast or contralateral breast nodal region or another organ than breast involvement.

Radiotherapy-associated biomarkersat baseline, 2 weeks, 3, 6, 9, and 12 months after radiotherapy

ctDNA will be assessed in blood samples taken between radiotherapy and surgery.

Trial Locations

Locations (7)

GenesisCare

🇦🇺

Sydney, Australia

Flevoziekenhuis

🇳🇱

Almere, Netherlands

Ziekenhuis Amstelland

🇳🇱

Amstelveen, Netherlands

Canisius Wilhelmina Ziekenhuis

🇳🇱

Nijmegen, Netherlands

Radboud UMC

🇳🇱

Nijmegen, Netherlands

Zaans Medisch Centrum

🇳🇱

Zaandam, Netherlands

Amsterdam UMC

🇳🇱

Amsterdam, Netherlands

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