Personalized Prone Immobilization for Accelerated Partial Breast Radiotherapy (SHIELD)

July 14, 2026 updated by: HeroSupport SA

Accelerated Partial Breast Radiotherapy Study of a Personalized Holder for Prone Breast Immobilization to Enhance Local Delivery

The goal of this clinical trial is to find out whether using a personalized breast holder (called VENUS SHELL™) can improve positioning and patient comfort during prone radiotherapy (radiotherapy given while the patient lies on her stomach).

The main goals of the study are:

  • To confirm that using the VENUS SHELL™ is safe and effective
  • To assess whether the VENUS SHELL™ helps deliver accurate radiation treatment in a faster and more comfortable way

Participants will:

  • Attend a study visit before radiotherapy to have a breast surface scan (no radiation) and enable the production of their personalized VENUS SHELL™
  • Use their VENUS SHELL™ during radiotherapy planning and treatment
  • Be asked to complete questionnaires about their comfort

Study Overview

Status

Recruiting

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Estimated)

30

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Contact

Study Contact Backup

Study Locations

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

  • Adult
  • Older Adult

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Description

INCLUSION Criteria:

  • Written informed consent according to ICH/GCP regulations before registration and prior to any study-specific procedures
  • Upfront breast conservative surgery
  • Radiotherapy planned within 12 weeks after surgery
  • ECOG/WHO performance status ≤2
  • Age ≥40 year

For invasive breast cancer only:

  • Staging pT1-T2, N0M0 (Tumor size ≤3 cm)
  • If no sentinel lymph node biopsy performed, patient must be clinically N0
  • Negative margins (no tumor on ink)

For ductal carcinoma in situ only:

  • Staging pTis (tumor size ≤3 cm)
  • Negative margins (≥2 mm)

EXCLUSION Criteria:

  • Patient of male sex
  • Inability to obtain informed consent or adhere to the CIP
  • Breast skin damage that could prevent VENUS SHELL™ usage according to protocol timeline (e.g. presence of any skin or soft tissue wound that failed to show evidence of progression towards healing, clinical signs of active infection at or immediately adjacent to the intended intervention site, etc.)
  • Known germline BRCA1/2 mutation
  • Unable to lay prone
  • Unable to undergo imaging by CT scan
  • Documented hypersensitivity or allergy to medical plasters, acrylonitrile butadiene styrene
  • Any serious underlying medical, psychiatric, psychological, familial or geographical condition, which in the judgment of the investigator may affect patient compliance or place the patient at high risk within the study.
  • Pregnancy or breast feeding
  • Claustrophobia
  • Patient with a body weight exceeding 120 kg
  • Patient with pendulous breasts that come into contact with the CT table, preventing adequate space for shell usage
  • Presence of any cardiac implantable electronic device (CIED), including but not limited to a pacemaker, implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD), cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) device, or other electronically active implant.

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

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

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: VENUS SHELL™ arm
VENUS SHELL™ is used for radiotherapy planning and radiotherapy tratment (Accelerated Partial Breast Radiotherapy)
Device: VENUS SHELL™ immobilization device
VENUS SHELL™ is used for Accelerated Partial Breast Irradiation

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Feasibility outcome: Time (days) between surface scan data received by HeroSupport and arrival of the VENUS SHELL™ at the clinical site
Time Frame: Treatment set-up (up to 21 days)
Treatment set-up (up to 21 days)
Performance outcomes: radiotherapy delivered within 15 minutes timeslot and patient positioning accuracy within 2 mm
Time Frame: Study treatment (10 days)
Radiotherapy time includes patient positioning and treatment. Patient positioning accuracy is measured though displacement via Tattoos and Image-Guided Radiation Therapy imaging
Study treatment (10 days)
Safety outcome: number of medical device-related Adverse Events as assessed by CTCAE v5.0
Time Frame: Through study completion (an average of 3 months)
Through study completion (an average of 3 months)

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Patients' comfort (questionnaires)
Time Frame: Treatment set-up (up to 21 days) and study treatment (10 days)

A first set of questions is rated on a 5-point scale ranging from 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree).

A second set of questions is rated on a 4-point scale ranging from 1 (not at all) to 4 (very).
Treatment set-up (up to 21 days) and study treatment (10 days)
Evaluate ease of use and overall satisfaction of using the VENUS SHELL (questionnaires)
Time Frame: Study treatment (10 days)
A set of questions rated on a 5-point scale ranging from 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree).
Study treatment (10 days)
In-vivo dosimetry measured with thermoluminescent dosimeters (TLDs)
Time Frame: Radiotherapy treatment first session, up to last session (10 days)
Comparison between expected and measured dose to the skin
Radiotherapy treatment first session, up to last session (10 days)

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

HeroSupport SA

Collaborators

University Hospital, Geneva
MDSS

Investigators

  • Principal Investigator: Naamit Gerber, MD, NYU Langone Health

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start (Estimated)

July 1, 2026

Primary Completion (Estimated)

July 1, 2027

Study Completion (Estimated)

July 1, 2027

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

July 7, 2026

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

July 14, 2026

First Posted (Actual)

July 17, 2026

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

July 17, 2026

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

July 14, 2026

Last Verified

July 1, 2026

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • SHIELD (Jacobs Institute)

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

Yes

product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.

No

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