Cooling Cap Trial to Prevent Permanent Chemotherapy-induced Alopecia in Breast Cancer Patients
Study Details
Study Description
Brief Summary
This study aims to examine whether the PSCS2 is effective in reducing chemotherapy-induced alopecia in woman with breast cancer undergoing neoadjuvant or adjuvant chemotherapy. Female adults who are newly diagnosed with stage 1-3 breast cancer and expected to receive Adriamycin or/and Taxane will participate in the study. The study design is a open label, randomized controlled trial. The patients will be randomly assigned to intervention or control groups. Intervention patients will have applied scalp cooling during 4 or 6 cycles of their chemotherapy. Primary endpoint is the effectiveness of the PSCS2 for reducing permanent chemotherapy-induced alopecia. Secondary endpoints include chemotherapy-induced alopecia, distress due to chemotherapy induced alopecia, quality of life, and patient-reported alopecia related side effect.
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Detailed Description
Adjuvant chemotherapy decreases the risk of recurrence. However, it has distressing side effects, including alopecia. Chemotherapy-induced alopecia (CIA) is a common and distressing side effect of many chemotherapy drugs. In previous study, more than half of the breast cancer patients experienced higher distress due to CIA during cancer treatment, and this distress was strongly associated with negative body image, overall health status, and psychosocial well-being. Recently scalp cooling has been known to be one of the effective options for hair loss prevention. However there was little information regarding the effect on prevention of permanent CIA(PCIA). This study aims to examine the impact of scalp cooling on prevention of PCIA as well as CIA.
Female adults who are newly diagnosed with stage 1-3 breast cancer and aged less than 70 years will be screened for plan of undergoing Adriamycin or/and Taxane regimen as neoadjuvant or adjuvant chemotherapy. Eligible patients will be randomly assigned to intervention or control groups (2:1 ratio). Patients in intervention group will have applied scalp cooling during 4 or 6 cycles of their chemotherapy whereas participants in control group will be observed.
The objective of the study is to examine whether Paxman scalp cooling system is effective in reducing PCIA in women with breast cancer undergoing neoadjuvant or adjuvant chemotherapy. In addition, impact of Paxman scalp cooling on prevention of CIA, alopecia-related distress, quality of life and patient-reported alopecia related side effect will be also explored.
Study Design
Arms and Interventions
Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
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Experimental: Intervention Group Before the chemotherapy, patients in intervention group will use cooling cap 30 minutes before chemotherapy. Once chemotherapy drug be ready, patients will receive chemotherapy. After the chemotherapy, patients go to the cooling cap area (room) and wear the cooling cap additional 20 minute for Taxane and 90 minute for other drugs, respectively. |
Device: Scalp cooling system 2
The investigational device which will be used in this study is the Paxman Scalp Cooling System 2. This device is manufactured by: Paxman Coolers Limited. This is a free-standing, electrically-powered, mobile refrigeration unit which circulates a refrigerated liquid coolant, at a pre-set temperature and flow rate, through a cooling cap which is attached to, and covers, the top of the patient's head. The Paxman Scalp Cooling System is intended to be used for scalp cooling of patients who are receiving chemotherapy for the treatment of solid tumors, in order to reduce the risk of chemotherapy-induced alopecia.
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No Intervention: Controlled Group chemotherapy with usual care |
Outcome Measures
Primary Outcome Measures
- Permanent chemotherapy-induced alopecia [6 months (±2 months) after completion of chemotherapy and intervention]
Permanent chemotherapy-induced alopecia is defined as hair density or thickness less than two standard deviations (SDs) compared to the baseline mean (before chemotherapy) at 6 months (±2 months) after completion of chemotherapy. Hair density and thickness will be measured by using Folliscope 5.0, LeadM.
Secondary Outcome Measures
- Hair density and thickness during and after chemotherapy [Baseline, at the beginning (1st day) of the 2nd cycle (each cycle is 21days), 1month (±2 weeks) after completion of chemotherapy and intervention]
Hair density and thickness will be measured by using Folliscope 5.0, LeadM between 1st and 2nd intervention and at 1st clinical visit after chemotherapy compared to the baseline mean (before chemotherapy).
- Distress due to chemotherapy-induced alopecia [Baseline, at the beginning (1st day) of the 2nd cycle (each cycle is 21days), 1month (±2 weeks) after completion of chemotherapy and intervention]
Chemotherapy-Induced Alopecia Distress Scale (CADS) will be used to demonstrate that the PSCS is effective in reducing distress due to chemotherapy-induced alopecia in woman with breast cancer undergoing neoadjuvant or adjuvant chemotherapy
- Quality of life (cancer related quality of life) [Baseline, at the beginning (1st day) of the 2nd cycle (each cycle is 21days), 1month (±2 weeks) after completion of chemotherapy and intervention]
Quality of life will be measured using EORTC QLQ-C30. The QLQ-C30 is a cancer health-related quality-of-life questionnaire that has been widely used in clinical trials and investigations using patient reported outcome for individual patient management. It use a "past week" recall period. Raw scores are linearly converted to a 0-100 scale with higher scores reflecting higher levels of Quality of life.
- Breast cancer related quality of life [Baseline, at the beginning (1st day) of the 2nd cycle (each cycle is 21days), 1month (±2 weeks) after completion of chemotherapy and intervention]
Quality of life will be measured using EORTC QLQ-BR23. The BR23 is a breast cancer specific module to measure health-related quality-of-life . It use a "past week" recall period. Raw scores are linearly converted to a 0-100 scale with higher scores reflecting higher levels of Quality of life.
- Patients reported outcomes [Baseline, at the beginning (1st day) of the 2nd cycle (each cycle is 21days), 1month (±2 weeks) after completion of chemotherapy and intervention, and 6 months (±2 months) after completion of chemotherapy and intervention]
Self-reported hair loss will be assessed by using Korean version of PRO-CTCAE.
- Global photographs [Baseline, at the beginning (1st day) of the 2nd cycle (each cycle is 21days), 1month (±2 weeks) after completion of chemotherapy and intervention, and 6 months (±2 months) after completion of chemotherapy and intervention]
Pictures to be focused on head/hair, which means shorter distance between the equipment and the subject by using Canon EOS 70D.
Other Outcome Measures
- Side effect [At the beginning (1st day) of the 2nd cycle (each cycle is 21days), At the beginning of 3rd cycle of chemotherapy, At the beginning of 4th cycle of chemotherapy, At the beginning of 5th cycle of chemotherapy, and , At the beginning 6th of chemotherapy]
Potential side-effect including discomfort due to the cold, headache, dizziness or vomiting.
- Willingness to pay [At the beginning (1st day) of the 2nd cycle (each cycle is 21days), 1month (±2 weeks) after completion of chemotherapy, and 6 months (±2 months) after completion of chemotherapy]
Willingness to pay to use scalp cooling by self-developed questionnaire.
- Effort for managing hair [Baseline, at the beginning (1st day) of the 2nd cycle (each cycle is 21days), 1month (±2 weeks) after completion of chemotherapy and intervention, and 6 months (±2 months) after completion of chemotherapy]
Usual care for hair and scalp, type of shampoo, wig
- Characteristic of participants [Smoking, drinking, medication and exposure-time to sunlight at baseline, at the beginning (1st day) of the 2nd cycle (each cycle is 21days), and 6m (±2m) after completion of chemotherapy, the others at only baseline]
Demographic information including age, education, marital status, working status, income, smoking and drinking history, medication, exposure-time to sunlight and co-morbidities
Eligibility Criteria
Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
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Newly diagnosed breast cancer, stage I-III
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Expected to receive 4 or 6 cycles of Adriamycin or Taxance of chemotherapy regimen as neoadjuvant or adjuvant chemotherapy with curative intent (e.g., AC, TC, or TCHP)
Exclusion Criteria:
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Any other concurrent malignancy including hematological malignancies
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Elevated liver enzymes or bilirubin defined as 3 times the upper limits of normal
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Serum Albumin < 3.0
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Subjects who are underweight (defined as a BMI < 17.5)
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Subjects who have had previous chemotherapy exposure
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Subjects with cold agglutinin disease or cold urticarial
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Subject who had thyroid disease, diabetes or cardiac disease
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Subject who had auto-immune disease
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History of treatment due to alopecia
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Subject who had scalp disease
Contacts and Locations
Locations
Site | City | State | Country | Postal Code | |
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1 | Samsung Medical Center, Ilwon-ro 81, Gangnam-gu | Seoul | Korea, Republic of | 06351 |
Sponsors and Collaborators
- Samsung Medical Center
- Paxman
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Jin Seok Ahn, MD, PhD, Samsung Medical Center
Study Documents (Full-Text)
None provided.More Information
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