SHARE: Standard or Hypofractionated Radiotherapy Versus Accelerated Partial Breast Irradiation (APBI) for Breast Cancer

Sponsor
UNICANCER (Other)
Overall Status
Active, not recruiting
CT.gov ID
NCT01247233
Collaborator
(none)
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Study Details

Study Description

Brief Summary

The standard treatment for localized breast cancer is based on conservative surgery (when possible) followed by radiation therapy (RT) delivered to the whole breast. The recommended total RT dose is 45 to 50 Gy delivered in 4.5 to 5 weeks followed by a 10 to 16 Gy boost to the tumor bed for 1 to 1.5 weeks. The rationale for the development of APBI was based on the difficulty for many patients to reach RT centers to receive standard whole breast irradiation (WBI) after conservative surgery. APBI offers decreased overall treatment time and several theoretical advantages over WBI, including a decrease in dose delivered to uninvolved portions of the breast and adjacent organs. If equivalence between the two treatments can be shown, then APBI will be considered as a historic evolution in breast cancer management.

In this phase III trial, designed in postmenopausal women >50 years of age, the objective is to compare the effectiveness and safety of APBI compared with whole breast irradiation. This study is also designed to ensure high quality criteria for surgery, pathology and RT techniques in the 3 arms and will allow to provide data on economics and costs.

Condition or Disease Intervention/Treatment Phase
  • Radiation: Whole Breast Irradiation + Boost or Hypofractionated irradiation
  • Radiation: Accelerated partial breast irradiation
Phase 3

Detailed Description

Following breast conservative surgery, patients will be stratified according to the following prognostic factors using a minimisation technique: age (<70 vs ≥70), HER2 status (HER2+ vs HER2-), hormonal receptor status (RH+ vs RH-) and lymph node invasion (pN0 vs pN0i+).

Patients will be allocated to receive either standard treatment, hypofractionated treatment or APBI.

Radiation therapy should be started between 4 and 12 weeks after the last surgery.

Patients treated with standard whole breast irradiation will receive a total dose of 50 Gy in 25 fractions, 2 Gy per day, 5 days a week. The boost of 16 Gy will be delivered in 8 fractions for all patients after completion of the 50 Gy, without interruption. All patients will receive one fraction per day, 5 fractions a week.

Patients treated with hypofractionated irradiation will receive a total dose of either 40 Gy (in 15 fractions, 2.66 Gy per day) or 42.5 Gy (in 16 fractions, 2.65 Gy per day) 5 days a week.

Patients treated with APBI will receive a total dose of 40 Gy in 10 fractions, delivered twice a day over a time period of 5-7 days. Each daily dose must be separated by 6 hours.

Patients will be followed at 3 and 6 month after the last dose of irradiation, at 12 months after the date of last surgery and then on a yearly basis during 10 years.

Study Design

Study Type:
Interventional
Actual Enrollment :
1006 participants
Allocation:
Randomized
Intervention Model:
Parallel Assignment
Masking:
None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose:
Treatment
Official Title:
Phase III Multicentric Trial Comparing Accelerated Partial Breast Irradiation (APBI) Versus Standard or Hypofractionated Whole Breast Irradiation in Low Risk of Local Recurrence of Breast Cancer
Actual Study Start Date :
Dec 27, 2010
Actual Primary Completion Date :
Dec 7, 2020
Anticipated Study Completion Date :
Oct 1, 2025

Arms and Interventions

Arm Intervention/Treatment
Active Comparator: Standard or Hypofractionated radiotherapy

Whole breast RT, 50 Gy + "boost" 16 Gy. Whole breast hypofractionated RT without boost, either 40 Gy or 42.5 Gy

Radiation: Whole Breast Irradiation + Boost or Hypofractionated irradiation
Whole Breast Irradiation 50 Gy + Boost 16 Gy or Whole breast, either 40 Gy in 15 fractions in 3 weeks or 42.5 Gy in 16 fractions in 3 weeks
Other Names:
  • Standard radiation
  • Experimental: Accelerated Partial Breast Irradiation (APBI)

    APBI using 3D CRT technique, in 5 days, 38.5 Gy to the tumor bed

    Radiation: Accelerated partial breast irradiation
    Tumor bed 40 Gy in 10 fractions, 2 fractions of 4 Gy per day in 5 to 7 days.
    Other Names:
  • APBI
  • Outcome Measures

    Primary Outcome Measures

    1. rate of local recurrence [5 years]

      To estimate and compare the rate of local recurrence between the experimental and control arms.

    Secondary Outcome Measures

    1. Ipsilateral breast recurrence-free survival [10 years]

      To evaluate Ipsilateral breast recurrence-free survival

    2. Nodal regional recurrence-free survival [10 years]

      To evaluate nodal regional recurrence-free survival

    3. Distant recurrence-free survival [10 years]

      To evaluate distant recurrence-free survival

    4. Disease-specific survival [10 years]

      To evaluate disease-specific survival

    5. Overall survival [10 years]

      To evaluate the overall survival

    6. Toxicities: Measurement of the rate and type of toxicity (acute and late toxic effects) [10 years]

      To evaluate rates and type of acute and late toxicities

    7. Cosmetic: comparison of the cosmetic result (according to both the physician and the patient) [10 years]

      To evaluate Cosmetic results (Patient and Physician evaluations)

    8. Quality of Life and Satisfaction [10 years]

      To evaluate the patient quality of life and patient satisfaction

    9. Medico-economic study [3 years]

      To evaluate the cost of APBI compared with Standard and Hypofractionated irradiation

    Eligibility Criteria

    Criteria

    Ages Eligible for Study:
    50 Years and Older
    Sexes Eligible for Study:
    Female
    Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
    No
    Inclusion Criteria:
    • Women aged ≥50 years

    • Menopausal status confirmed

    • Pathology confirmation of invasive carcinoma (all types)

    • Complete tumor removal and conservative surgery

    • Pathologic tumor size of invasive carcinoma ≤2 cm (including the in situ component) pT1

    • All histopathologic grades

    • Clear lateral margins for the invasive and in situ disease (>2 mm)

    • pN0 or pN(i+)

    • No metastasis

    • Radiotherapy should be started more than 4 weeks and less than 12 weeks after last surgery

    • Surgical clips (4 to 5 clips in the tumor bed)

    • No prior breast or mediastinal radiotherapy

    • Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) 0-1

    • Information to the patient and signed informed consent

    Exclusion Criteria:
    • Multifocal invasive ductal carcinoma defined as the presence of at least two distinct tumors that are separated by normal tissue or when the distance between the two lesions does not permit conservative surgery

    • Bilateral breast cancer

    • No or less than 4 surgical clips in the tumor bed

    • Nodal involvement : pN1 (including micrometastasis, mi+), pN2, pN3

    • Metastatic disease

    • internal mammary node involvement or supraclavicular lymph node involvement

    • Indication of chemotherapy or trastuzumab

    • Involved or close lateral margins for the invasive and /or in situ components (<2 mm) AND impossibility to re-operate or impossible to perform another conservative surgery

    • Patients with known BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations

    • Previous mammoplasty

    • Previous homolateral breast and/or mediastinal irradiation

    • Previous invasive cancer (except basocellular epithelioma or in situ carcinoma of the cervix)

    • No geographical, social or psychologic reasons that would prevent study follow

    Contacts and Locations

    Locations

    Site City State Country Postal Code
    1 Centre de traitement des Hautes energie - Clinique de l'Europe Amiens France
    2 Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Amiens France
    3 Institut Bergonié Bordeaux France
    4 Centre Hospitalier Brive France
    5 Centre Francois Baclesse Caen France
    6 CH Chambery Chambery France
    7 Hopital Henri Mondor Creteil France 94010
    8 Centre Leonard de Vinci Dechy France
    9 CHU Michallon Grenoble France
    10 Hôpital Robert Boulin Libourne France
    11 Centre Oscar Lambret Lille France 59020
    12 CHU Dupuytren Limoges France
    13 Centre Léon Bérard Lyon France
    14 Institut Paoli Calmettes Marseille France
    15 Clinique du Pont de Chaume Montauban France
    16 CRLC Val d'Aurelle Montpellier France
    17 Centre Hospitalier Montélimar France
    18 Centre Hospitalier de Mulhouse Mulhouse France
    19 Centre d'Oncologie de Gentilly Nancy France
    20 Clinique Hartmann Neuilly sur Seine France
    21 Centre de Haute Energie Nice France
    22 Groupe Hospitalier Pitié Salpétrière Paris France
    23 Hopital Tenon Paris France
    24 Saint Louis Hospital Paris France
    25 Centre Catalan d'Oncologie Perpignan France
    26 Institut Jean Godinot Reims France
    27 Centre Eugène Marquis Rennes France
    28 CH de Roanne Roanne France
    29 Centre Henri Becquerel Rouen France
    30 Institut de Cancérologie de la Loire Saint Priest en Jarez France
    31 Centre Paul Stauss Strasbourg France
    32 Centre Marie Curie Valence France
    33 Centre Alexis Vautrin Vandoeuvre les Nancy France
    34 Institut Gustave Roussy Villejuif France

    Sponsors and Collaborators

    • UNICANCER

    Investigators

    • Principal Investigator: Yazid Belkacemi, MD PhD, Henri Mondor Hospital AP-HP, Créteil, France
    • Principal Investigator: Eric Lartigau, MD, Oscar Lambret Hospital, Lille, France
    • Principal Investigator: Céline Bourgier, MD, Institut de Cancérologie de Montpellier, Montpellier, France

    Study Documents (Full-Text)

    None provided.

    More Information

    Publications

    None provided.
    Responsible Party:
    UNICANCER
    ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
    NCT01247233
    Other Study ID Numbers:
    • RTS02-SHARE
    • 2010-A00243-36
    • UC-0140/1001
    • RTS02 / SHARE
    First Posted:
    Nov 24, 2010
    Last Update Posted:
    Feb 24, 2022
    Last Verified:
    Feb 1, 2022
    Individual Participant Data (IPD) Sharing Statement:
    Yes
    Plan to Share IPD:
    Yes
    Keywords provided by UNICANCER
    Additional relevant MeSH terms:

    Study Results

    No Results Posted as of Feb 24, 2022