Accelerated Radiation Therapy After Surgery in Treating Patients With Breast Cancer

Accelerated, Hypofractionated Post-Mastectomy Radiation Therapy in Women With Breast Cancer: A Phase II Trial

This phase II trial studies how well giving accelerated radiation therapy (RT) after surgery works in treating patients with breast cancer. RT uses high energy x rays to kill tumor cells. Giving RT after surgery may kill any remaining tumor cells

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Inflammatory Breast Cancer; Stage II Breast Cancer; Stage IIIA Breast Cancer; Stage IIIB Breast Cancer; Stage IIIC Breast Cancer; Invasive Lobular Breast Carcinoma; Invasive Ductal Breast Carcinoma; Mucinous Ductal Breast Carcinoma; Papillary Ductal Breast Carcinoma; Tubular Ductal Breast Carcinoma
• Intervention / Treatment: Radiation: External beam radiation therapy

Detailed Description

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:

I. Freedom from local failure and freedom from regional failure.

SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:

I. Acute toxicity and late toxicity using previously published toxicity scales. II. To identify co-variates responsible for poor cosmetic outcome in women with reconstructed chest walls when treated with accelerated, hypofractionated radiotherapy.

III. To correlate toxicity, cosmesis, and local control with molecular markers.

OUTLINE:

Patients undergo hypofractionated accelerated RT over 11 weekdays (for 15 elapsed days) within 21-63 days after last surgery or last course of chemotherapy. Treatment continues in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.

After completion of study treatment, patients are followed up at 2-8 weeks, every 3-6 months for 3 years, every 6-12 months for 2 years, and then annually thereafter.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 69
• Phase: Phase 2

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • New Jersey
    • New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States, 08903
      • Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey
  • Utah
    • Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, 84103
      • Huntsman Cancer Hospital

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Invasive ductal, medullary, papillary, colloid (mucinous), or tubular histologies; invasive lobular carcinomas are allowed
• American Joint Committee for Cancer (AJCC) Stage IIa - IIIc (pathologic stage T0N1-3, T1N1-3, T2N1-3, T3N0-3, T4N0-3, all M0 status) histologically confirmed invasive carcinoma of the breast treated with mastectomy and either sentinel node biopsy or axillary dissection; inflammatory carcinoma (T4d) is allowed
• Patients with locally advanced breast cancer on clinical exam and diagnostics ( > 3 cm and/or clinically node-positive) who have mastectomy after induction chemotherapy are allowed
• Multifocal/multicentric disease is allowed
• Negative inked histologic margins of mastectomy (no invasive cells at margin) or positive margin at pectoralis fascia or skin
• Tamoxifen, Arimidex or other hormonal therapy is allowed; it may begin any time relative to the radiation at the discretion of the treating physician
• Chemotherapy is allowed, if chemotherapy is indicated the chemotherapy can be delivered first, followed by radiation therapy beginning 21-63 days after the last cycle of chemotherapy or the radiation therapy can be delivered first and the chemotherapy can be delivered no earlier than 21 days post radiation therapy; neoadjuvant chemotherapy is allowed; radiation therapy will be delivered after mastectomy or after any adjuvant chemotherapy as described above
• Chest wall reconstruction is allowed
• The patient must be enrolled and have treatment planning between 14-63 days from date of last surgery or last cycle of chemotherapy, and radiation must start within 21-63 days of date of last surgery or last cycle of chemotherapy
• Signed study-specific informed consent form prior to study entry
• Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0 or 1

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patient with distant metastases (M1)
• Patients with ductal or lobular carcinoma in-situ alone (no invasive component) and patients with non-epithelial breast malignancies such as sarcoma or lymphoma
• Patient with T1N0 or T2N0 disease
• Prior radiation therapy to the chest
• Patients with collagen vascular diseases, specifically systemic lupus erythematosus, scleroderma, or dermatomyositis
• Patients with co-existing medical conditions with life expectancy < 2 years
• Patients with psychiatric (with the possible exception of incompetence as defined by New Jersey [NJ] law) or addictive disorders that would preclude obtaining informed consent
• Other malignancy, except non-melanomatous skin cancer, < 5 years prior to participation in this study; the disease-free interval from any prior carcinoma must be continuous
• Women who are pregnant or lactating due to potential exposure of the fetus to RT and unknown effects of RT to lactating females
• Women who are able to conceive and unwilling to practice an effective method of birth control; women of childbearing potential must have a negative urine or serum pregnancy test within 7 days prior to treatment

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Treatment
• Allocation: N/A
• Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

1

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Radiation Therapy; Patients undergo hypofractionated accelerated radiation therapy over 11 weekdays (for 15 elapsed days) within 21-63 days after last surgery or last course of chemotherapy. Treatment continues in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.	Radiation: External beam radiation therapy; Hypofractionated accelerated radiation therapy over 11 days; Other Names: EBRT

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Number of Participants With Local, Regional, and/or Distant Failure	Assessed by physical examination and other relevant imaging per the discretion of the patients treating physicians. Confirmed by biopsy, and should be coded as either chest wall recurrence, axilla, supraclavicular, or internal mammary.	Up to 5 years after dose of last treatment, an average of 62 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Count of Participants With Grade Three or Higher Toxicities	Adverse events will be monitored weekly during treatment, then two weeks after RT, then at week 8, then every 3-6 months for 3 years, then every 6-12 months out to 5 years.	weekly during treatment, then two weeks after RT, then at week 8, then every 3-6 months for 3 years, then every 6-12 months out to 5 years.
Participants With Plans for Breast Reconstruction, Having Grade Three or Higher Reconstruction Complications		Up to five years after dose of last treatment, an average of 62 months

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
• Collaborators: National Cancer Institute (NCI); Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): December 21, 2010
• Primary Completion (Actual): February 20, 2020
• Study Completion (Actual): February 20, 2020

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: August 2, 2011
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: August 12, 2011
• First Posted (Estimate): August 16, 2011

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): April 20, 2023
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: March 29, 2023
• Last Verified: March 1, 2023

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Skin Diseases; Neoplasms by Histologic Type; Neoplasms; Neoplasms by Site; Adenocarcinoma; Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial; Breast Diseases; Neoplasms, Ductal, Lobular, and Medullary; Carcinoma, Ductal; Breast Neoplasms; Carcinoma; Inflammatory Breast Neoplasms; Carcinoma, Lobular; Carcinoma, Ductal, Breast
• Other Study ID Numbers: 041001 (Rutgers IRB); P30CA072720 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract); 0220100204 (Other Identifier: Rutgers IRB); NCI-2011-01124 (Registry Identifier: CTRP (Clinical Trial Reporting Program))

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO