Trial Evaluating Role of Post Mastectomy Radiotherapy in Women With Node Negative Early Breast Cancer
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- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Post Mastectomy Radiation therapy.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Breastcancer. Basic parameters: 18 years — 80 years · Female.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- India
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
Post-Mastectomy Radiation Therapy in High Risk, Node Negative Women With Early Breast Cancer (PMRT-NNBC)
Overview
Postmastectomy radiotherapy (PMRT) is unequivocally beneficial in reducing the recurrences as well as improving survival in node positive breast cancer patients. PMRT for women with T1-T2 tumors and negative axillary nodes is not generally warranted because of the presumed low risk of recurrence in this population as a whole. However, in the setting of multiple adverse prognostic factors, the recurrence risk approaches and in some cases surpasses the risk of recurrence documented for patients with one to three positive lymph nodes. Numerous retrospective series have reported the outcome and patterns of failure for post-mastectomy patients treated without radiation. Many of these series have analyzed several high risk factors which were predictive of loco-regional recurrence wherein the role of adjuvant post-mastectomy radiation can be considered. Some authors have used combinations of prognostic factors, such as age, tumour size, grade, receptor status, Her2neu status and lympho-vascular space invasion to define subgroups with more specific risks of loco-regional recurrence than single factors alone. The current trial hypothesizes that "Post-mastectomy radiation in high risk, node negative early breast cancer patients decreases rates of loco-regional recurrence and improves disease free survival" and propose to address the question in randomized setting.
Interventions
- Radiation Post Mastectomy Radiation therapy
Post mastectomy radiotherapy to the chest wall and ipsilateral supra-clavicular fossa to a dose of 40 Gy in 15 fractions over 3 weeks
Primary outcome measures
- Disease free survival [Time frame: 5 years]
Secondary outcome measures (7)
- Chest wall recurrence [Time frame: 5 years]
- Regional recurrence [Time frame: 5 years]
- Metastasis-free survival [Time frame: 5 years]
- Overall survival [Time frame: 5 years]
- Acute Morbidity of radiotherapy [Time frame: 4 weeks from the start of radiotherapy]
- Late Morbidity of radiotherapy [Time frame: 6 months from end of radiotherapy to 5 years]
- Quality of life scores under different domains of the QLQ C-30 and BR-23 questionnaires [Time frame: 5 years post surgery]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Women with unilateral pT1,2N0M0 breast cancer or multifocal breast cancer if largest discrete tumour at least 2cm or if the tumour area comprises multiple small adjacent foci of invasive carcinoma then overall maximum dimension taken. This must be greater than 2cm.
- Upfront total mastectomy (with minimum 1 mm margin clear of invasive cancer or DCIS) and axillary staging procedure (clearance, sampling or SNB)
- T2 tumors with one risk factor or T1 tumors with any of the following two high risk factors such as presence of high grade, lymphovascular invasion, ER/PR negative, HER2 positivity, age < 35 years.
- Fit to receive adjuvant radiation +/- chemotherapy (if indicated) +/- hormonal therapy (if indicated)
- Written, informed consent
Exclusion criteria
- Any pTis/3/4, M1 patients
- Patients who have any pathologically involved axillary nodes (micro-metastasis may be allowed)
- Patients who have undergone neoadjuvant systemic therapy.
- Previous or concurrent malignancy other than non melanomatous skin cancer and carcinoma in situ of the cervix
- Pregnancy
- Bilateral breast cancer
- Not fit for surgery, radiotherapy or adjuvant systemic therapy
- Unable or unwilling to give informed consent
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Model
- Parallel assignment
- Masking
- Open label
- Primary purpose
- Treatment
Study locations
India · 7 centers
- Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research — Chandigarh
- Kolhapur Cancer Centre Pvt Ltd — Kolhāpur
- Tata Memorial Centre — Mumbai
- Max Super Speciality Hospital, Shalimar Bagh — Delhi
- Max Super Speciality Hospital(A unit of Devki Devi Foundation) — New Delhi
- All India Institute of Medical Sciences — New Delhi
- Bhagwan Mahaveer Cancer Hospital and Research Centre — Jaipur
Identifiers
NCT: NCT02992574 · 1602 · CTRI/2016/12/007532