Radiation Therapy Before Surgery in Treating Patients With Hormone Receptor Positive, HER2 Negative Breast Cancer

Sponsor
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center (Other)
Overall Status
Active, not recruiting
CT.gov ID
NCT03359954
Collaborator
National Cancer Institute (NCI) (NIH)
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Study Details

Study Description

Brief Summary

This phase II trial studies how well radiation therapy before surgery works in treating patients with hormone receptor positive, HER2 negative breast cancer. Radiation therapy uses high energy x-rays to kill tumor cells and shrink tumors. Giving radiation therapy before surgery may make the tumor smaller and reduce the amount of normal tissue that needs to be removed.

Condition or Disease Intervention/Treatment Phase
  • Radiation: Radiation Therapy
  • Procedure: Therapeutic Conventional Surgery
Phase 2

Detailed Description

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:
  1. To evaluate the change in percent tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TIL) as a continuous variable before and after preoperative boost radiotherapy (RT) in hormone receptor (HR)+/human epidermal growth factor receptor2 (HER2)- breast cancers.
SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:
  1. To evaluate the safety of preoperative boost RT administered to patients with HR+/HER2- breast cancer.
EXPLORATORY OBJECTIVES:
    1. To assess the mechanisms of cell death induced by preoperative boost RT.
    1. To assess immunologic and molecular responses to preoperative boost RT.
    1. To assess the correlations between immune markers, cell death markers, and their changes during treatment.
    1. To determine if magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can be used to predict breast tumor response to neoadjuvant radiation.
OUTLINE:

Patients undergo boost radiation therapy 6-8 days before breast surgery. After surgery, patients continue to receive standard of care radiation therapy.

After completion of study treatment, patients are followed up at 6 months.

Study Design

Study Type:
Interventional
Actual Enrollment :
25 participants
Allocation:
N/A
Intervention Model:
Single Group Assignment
Masking:
None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose:
Treatment
Official Title:
PRECISE: Preoperative Radiotherapy to Elicit Critical Immune Stimulating Effects
Actual Study Start Date :
Nov 16, 2017
Anticipated Primary Completion Date :
Oct 31, 2022
Anticipated Study Completion Date :
Oct 31, 2022

Arms and Interventions

Arm Intervention/Treatment
Experimental: Treatment (radiation therapy, surgery)

Patients undergo boost radiation therapy 6-8 days before breast surgery. After surgery, patients continue to receive standard of care radiation therapy.

Radiation: Radiation Therapy
Undergo radiation therapy
Other Names:
  • Cancer Radiotherapy
  • Irradiate
  • Irradiated
  • irradiation
  • Radiation
  • Radiotherapeutics
  • RADIOTHERAPY
  • RT
  • Therapy, Radiation
  • Procedure: Therapeutic Conventional Surgery
    Undergo breast surgery

    Outcome Measures

    Primary Outcome Measures

    1. Evaluation of Change in Percent of Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes (TIL) [6 to 8 days after preoperative radiotherapy]

      With 20 patients, a 95% confidence interval for the mean difference between TIL measurements would extend 0.44*s units from the mean (where "s" is the standard deviation of the TIL differences). If the differences are not normally distributed, researchers will report the median difference along with appropriate 95% confidence intervals. Appropriate graphs used to visualize the data.

    Secondary Outcome Measures

    1. Delay Rate of Surgery Following Boost RT [4 weeks after boost RT]

      Delay rate defined as the proportion of patients experiencing a > 4 week interval between boost RT and surgery. The method of Thall, Simon, and Estey employed to perform interim delay rate monitoring.

    2. Tumor Changes between pre and post boost [Up to 4 weeks after surgery]

      For tumor measures, descriptive statistics including plots, tabulations, mean, median, and standard deviations will be used to summarize data. Differences and/or percentage changes will be calculated between pre- and post- therapy samples from each patient and described as continuous measures by using paired t-tests will be explored to evaluate the changes in markers pre- and post-boost therapy. Scatter plots will be used to visualize how correlated between changes in immune markers and extent of tumor cell apoptosis, and the Spearman correlation coefficients will be calculated to evaluate the association between changes in immune markers and extent of tumor cell death markers.

    3. Toxicity calculated using the CTCAE v4.0 [6 months after adjuvant RT]

      Toxicity and cosmesis will be calculated and reported, to enable comparisons to other published reports of breast cancer-related toxicity using the CTCAE v4.0.

    4. Changes in dynamic contrast enhanced (DCE) [4 weeks after surgery]

      Changes in DCE, internal texture, ADC values, z-spectrum asymmetry on CEST measures will be assessed between the simulation MRI and the MRI obtained following radiation boost.

    Eligibility Criteria

    Criteria

    Ages Eligible for Study:
    18 Years and Older
    Sexes Eligible for Study:
    All
    Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
    No
    Inclusion Criteria:
    Inclusion:
    • Age >/=18 years at time of study entry

    • Histologically confirmed HR+/HER2- (according to American Society of Clinical Oncology/College of American Pathologists guidelines) invasive carcinoma of the breast

    • Presence of a clip in the primary breast cancer

    • Biopsy-amenable residual disease in the breast measuring >/= 1cm in at least one dimension on ultrasound cm in at least one dimension on ultrasound

    • Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0-1

    • Signed written informed consent

    • Planned for multidisciplinary evaluation by a Breast Surgical Oncologist and Breast Radiation Oncologist. For patients undergoing mastectomy and desirous of reconstruction or those undergoing breast conservation in whom oncoplastic local tissue rearrangement or reduction mammoplasty is being considered, this multidisciplinary evaluation will also include a plastic surgeon.

    Exclusion:
    • Women who are pregnant or breast-feeding

    • Contraindication to receive radiotherapy

    Contacts and Locations

    Locations

    Site City State Country Postal Code
    1 M D Anderson Cancer Center Houston Texas United States 77030

    Sponsors and Collaborators

    • M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
    • National Cancer Institute (NCI)

    Investigators

    • Principal Investigator: Simona F Shaitelman, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

    Study Documents (Full-Text)

    None provided.

    More Information

    Additional Information:

    Publications

    None provided.
    Responsible Party:
    M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
    ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
    NCT03359954
    Other Study ID Numbers:
    • 2017-0362
    • NCI-2018-00993
    • 2017-0362
    First Posted:
    Dec 2, 2017
    Last Update Posted:
    Jun 16, 2022
    Last Verified:
    Jun 1, 2022
    Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Drug Product:
    Yes
    Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Device Product:
    No
    Additional relevant MeSH terms:

    Study Results

    No Results Posted as of Jun 16, 2022