Multicenter Trial for Eliminating Breast Cancer Surgery or Radiotherapy in Exceptional Responders to Neoadjuvant Systemic Therapy
Who can join
As published by the study on ClinicalTrials.gov. "Not stated" means the study hasn't said — ask the study team.
- Age
- 30 Years and older
- Sex
- Female only
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
- Compensation
- Not stated
Other requirements are listed under Eligibility below. Only the study team can confirm whether you can join.
What to expect
No one can promise a trial will help you personally — that is what the research is trying to find out.
What participation involves
- Time periods mentioned: 10 years
- Procedures mentioned: Biopsies
Only what the study's summary and detailed description on ClinicalTrials.gov say. Time periods may describe the whole study or a part of it — ask the study team what applies to you.
Show the study's own words
- "Cohort B: To determine the pCR rate 6 or 12 months after radiation therapy based on image-guided biopsy."
- "To determine the number (%) of patients where final biopsy reveals residual disease and quantify the residual disease (residual cancer burden, RCB) determined by routine pathologic examination of surgery specimens."
- "To determine the 6 mo, 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, and 10 years incidence of ipsilateral breast and nodal recommendation and performance of biopsy based on breast imaging follow-up."
- "Correlate "liquid biopsy" analyses (after standard routine NST, 6 months and one year post-radiotherapy or surgery) among protocol participants with pCR, utilizing circulating tumor cells (CTCs) and circulating tumor-DNA (ctDNA)."
- "Among patients who decide to proceed with routine surgery, record the results of final biopsy compared with routine pathologic examination of surgery specimens."
- "To explore if radiation genomic sensitivity scores and Oncotype performed on the initial diagnostic core biopsy specimen correlate with pCR rates in Cohort B."
- Compensation
- Not stated
- Study-related exams and procedures are typically provided at no cost. This is how many trials work in general — confirm the details for this study with the study team.
- Participants are monitored closely by the research team throughout the study.
- Some participants may receive access to an investigational treatment, which is still being studied.
- Your participation helps researchers learn whether this approach could help future patients.
About this study
In plain language
This study tests whether some women with breast cancer can skip surgery or radiation after treatment. To skip a treatment, a tissue sample or surgery must show no cancer left. The study has groups for HER2-positive, triple-negative, and hormone-sensitive breast cancers.
This clinical trial studies eliminating surgery and/or radiation therapy in treating breast cancer patients. In HER2 positive and triple negative breast cancers, after systemic therapy, when image-guided biopsy shows no residual cancer, patients then receive standard breast radiotherapy with no surgery. In ER positive/HER2 negative breast cancers, after endocrine therapy and ablative radiotherapy, when image-guided biopsy shows no residual cancer, patients then receive standard endocrine therapy with no surgery. For patients who have HER2 positive and triple negative breast cancers and standard surgery, after systemic therapy, breast radiotherapy is being eliminated when the pathology from surgery shows no residual cancer.
Compensation is read from the study's own description and may be missing — always confirm with the study team.
Eligibility
Who can join
- All groups: Women who want treatment that keeps the breast. Any past cancer outside the breast must be fully treated, with no signs of that cancer left.
- Groups A1/A2, skipping surgery: Age 40 or older with HER2-positive or triple-negative cancer. The cancer must be in one area, no larger than 5 cm, and not spread to distant body parts. At most 4 underarm lymph nodes may look abnormal on the first ultrasound.
- Groups A1/A2: Receive standard drug treatment before surgery. Before the study biopsy, the breast spot must measure 2 cm or less on scans. The biopsy, a tissue sample guided by scans, must show no cancer left.
- Groups B1/B2, skipping surgery: Age 40 or older with hormone-sensitive, HER2-negative cancer. It must be in one area, 2 cm or smaller, with no spread to lymph nodes or distant body parts. It cannot be lobular cancer, which starts in milk-making glands, or involve nearby blood or lymph vessels.
- Groups B1/B2: The Oncotype tumor test score must be 25 or less at age 50 or older. At ages 40–49, it must be 20 or less, and the tumor must be 1.5 cm or smaller. Join before drug treatment, agree to anti-estrogen medicine, and receive radiation at an approved site. No past radiation to the breast area needing treatment.
- Group C, skipping radiation: HER2-positive cancer requires age 30 or older and a tumor no larger than 5 cm. Triple-negative cancer requires age 50 or older and a tumor no larger than 2 cm. Cancer must not have spread to lymph nodes or distant body parts. Standard drug treatment before surgery is required, including HER2-targeted medicine for HER2-positive cancer.
- Group C: Cancer must fit within one breast-saving surgery. Tests after surgery must show no cancer left in the removed breast tissue or lymph nodes, including cancer still inside milk ducts.
- Group D: Only for MD Anderson Houston patients who meet Group C rules but have not joined a group that skips radiation. They may later move to a group that skips surgery or radiation if they qualify.
Who can't join
- A tumor larger than allowed for the group, or cancer involving the chest wall or skin.
- Cancer that has spread to distant body parts.
- Past invasive breast cancer or DCIS, cancer inside milk ducts, in the same breast.
- Breast cancer that grows by more than 20%, or new spread to lymph nodes.
- Known pregnancy.
- For Groups A1/A2/B1/B2: Taking part in another drug-treatment study that requires surgery to remove breast tissue or lymph nodes.
Simplified for readability. The official criteria below are what the study team uses.
Official eligibility criteria
Inclusion Criteria: * Cohort A1 and A2 • Conditions for patient eligibility: Patients on this portion of the study can receive radiation treatment at any MD Anderson Cancer Center or any outside hospital and may be enrolled prior to, during, or following neoadjuvant systemic therapy provided they meet the following eligibility and ineligibility requirements noted below: 1. Pathologically confirmed unicentric invasive breast cancer defined as radiologic clinical stage T1 or T2 (≤ 5 cm), N0 or N1 (≤ 4 abnormal axillary nodes on initial ultrasound), clinical stage M0. 2. HER2 positive (IHC 3+ and or FISH amplified) or triple receptor negative (TN, ER/PR\< 10% HER2 negative (IHC 1+ or 2+ FISH non-amplified) receiving any standard routine clinical NST regimen. 3. Patient desires breast conserving therapy. 4. Age 40 years or older. This age cutoff is justified because breast cancers in women under the age of 40 are known to have a significantly higher risk of IBTR presumably due to underlying biologic differences \[124, 125\]. 5. Female sex. 6. If the patient has a history of a prior non-breast cancer, all treatment for this cancer must have been completed prior to study registration and the patient must have no evidence of disease for this prior non-breast cancer. 7. Patient must have an initial nodal ultrasound that does not demonstrate more than four suspicious lymph nodes, any suspicious lymph nodes should be biopsied to determine if nodal metastatic disease present. 8. Patient understands that the breast lesion size on final breast imaging must be less than or equal to 2 cm prior to the biopsy procedure being performed on study and if the biopsy shows residual carcinoma the patient will be taken off study. * Cohort B1 and B2 • Conditions for patient eligibility: Patients on this portion of the study will be limited to receive radiation treatment at MD Anderson Cancer Center or other approved locations and must be enrolled prior to any neoadjuvant systemic therapy provided they meet the following eligibility and ineligibility requirements noted below: 1. ER and/or PR positive, HER2 negative 2. Clinical stage T1N0M0, unicentric non-lobular breast cancer, no lymphovascular space invasion, 3. At least 40 years of age. 4. Oncotype ≤ 25 if age ≥ 50 years 5. Oncotype 0-20 and tumor size ≤ 1.5cm if age 40-49 years. 6. Patient agrees to take anti-estrogen therapy and is interested in breast conservation 7. Female sex. 8. If the patient has a history of a prior non-breast cancer, all treatment for this cancer must have been completed prior to study registration and the patient must have no evidence of disease for this prior non-breast cancer. 9. No history of prior radiation to the area of the breast that would require protocol-mandated treatment * Cohort C • Conditions for patient eligibility: Patients on this portion of the study can receive surgical treatment at any MD Anderson Cancer Center or any outside hospital and may be enrolled prior to or following neoadjuvant systemic therapy provided they meet the following eligibility and ineligibility requirements noted below: 1. Pathologically confirmed invasive breast cancer defined as radiologic clinical stage T1 or T2 (≤ 5 cm), N0, clinical stage M0 and HER2 positive (IHC 3+ and or FISH amplified) receiving any standard routine clinical NST regimen containing her-2 directed therapy OR Pathologically confirmed invasive breast cancer defined as radiologic clinical stage T1 (≤ 2 cm), N0, clinical stage M0 and triple negative, receiving any standard routine clinical NST regimen. 2. For cohort C patients participating in the optional pretreatment biopsy, the patient should be able undergo biopsy or surgery of the primary tumor site of suspected or proven invasive breast cancer and should be planned to receive neoadjuvant systemic therapy. 3. Patient desires breast conserving therapy. 4. Age 30 years or older if HER2 positive. Age 50 or older if HER2 negative (triple negative). 5. Female sex. 6. If the patient has a history of a prior non-breast cancer, all treatment for this cancer must have been completed prior to study registration and the patient must have no evidence of disease for this prior non-breast cancer. 7. Patient must have an initial nodal ultrasound that does not demonstrate suspicious lymph nodes; any suspicious lymph nodes should be biopsied to determine if nodal metastatic disease present. 8. Patient must have no evidence of residual invasive tumor or DCIS on pathologic review of the lumpectomy surgical specimen 9. Patient must have no evidence of metastatic disease or isolated tumor cells involving the lymph nodes on pathologic review of the lymph node surgical specimen. If treatment effect in the nodes is noted on the pathology report, the investigators would generally discourage enrollment on this protocol. 10. Unifocal disease or limited multifocal disease that can be excised in a single lumpectomy specimen * Cohort D (MD Anderson Houston patients only) * Conditions for patient eligibility: Patients on this portion of the study meet all eligibility requirements for cohort C, but have not enrolled onto the study to omit radiation. Patients in Cohort D can be identified at the time of diagnosis or prior to lumpectomy. They are not required to participate in one of the treatment arms of the study, but can ultimately choose to move to an omission Cohort at a later time point. 3.5.1 Patients with triple negative or her-2 positive tumor who are amenable to breast conserving treatment and have received or are planned for neoadjuvant systemic therapy prior to surgery are eligible for Cohort D. 3.5.2 Eligible patients in cohort D who have undergone optional ARTIDIS biopsies of the primary breast tumor at the time of diagnosis, prior to starting neoadjuvant therapy, or following completion of systemic therapy, at the time of surgery, may later move to Cohort A or C if they meet all eligibility requirements and ultimately desire surgery or radiation omission Exclusion Criteria: 1. Radiologic evidence for a stage T3 or clinical stage T4 breast cancer in Cohort A1/A2/C; radiologic evidence for a stage T2-T3 or clinical stage T4 breast cancer in Cohort B1/B2. 2. Clinical or pathologic evidence for distant metastases. 3. Prior diagnosis of invasive or ductal carcinoma in situ breast cancer in the ipsilateral breast. 4. Clinical evidence of progression of disease \>20% in the breast or new evidence of nodal metastases. 5. Patient is known to be pregnant. 6. Patient is participating in a NST protocol in which surgical excision of the breast and or lymph nodes are required in Cohort A1/A2/B1/B2.
Study sites (8)
AZ
- MD Anderson Cancer Center - Banner · Gilbert, AZ 85234More trials in Gilbert
FL
- Baptist MD Anderson Cancer Center · Jacksonville, FL 32207Laila Samiian · Study contact · laila.samiian@bmcjax.comBeth A. Lesnikoski · Principal investigatorMore trials in Jacksonville
HI
- Queen's Medical Center · Honolulu, HI 96813More trials in Honolulu
MN
- Mayo Clinic · Rochester, MN 55905Judy C. Boughey · Study contact · 507-284-2511 · boughey.judy@mayo.eduJudy C. Boughey · Principal investigatorMore trials in Rochester
NC
- Carolinas Medical Center/Levine Cancer Institute · Charlotte, NC 28203Richard L. White · Study contact · 980-442-6358 · Richard.White@atriumhealth.orgRichard L. White · Principal investigatorMore trials in Charlotte
NJ
- Cooper Hospital Univ Med Ctr, MD Anderson at Cooper Voorhees · Voorhees Township, NJ 08103Catherine E. Loveland-Jones · Study contact · 856-135-6207 · loveland-jones-catherine@CooperHealth.eduCatherine E. Loveland-Jones · Principal investigatorMore trials in Voorhees Township
PA
- University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI) · Pittsburgh, PA 15232Emilia J. Diego · Study contact · 412-641-3083 · diegoe@upmc.eduEmilia J. Diego · Principal investigatorMore trials in Pittsburgh
TX
- M D Anderson Cancer Center · Houston, TX 77030Henry M. Kuerer · Study contact · 713-745-5043 · hkuerer@mdanderson.orgHenry M. Kuerer · Principal investigatorMore trials in Houston