The purpose of this study is to compare the effects on low risk breast cancer receiving usual care that includes regional radiation therapy, with receiving no regional radiation therapy. Researchers want to see if not giving this type of radiation treatment works as well at preventing breast cancer from coming back.
Eligibility
Sex
FEMALE
Min age
35 Years
Max age
—
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion Criteria:
* Patients must be women with newly diagnosed histologically proven invasive carcinoma of the breast with no evidence of metastases, staged as per site standard of care.
* Patients must have been treated by BCS or mastectomy with clear margins of excision. Post-mastectomy positive margins for invasive disease and/or DCIS is not allowed. Multifocal disease (i.e. the presence of two or more foci or breast cancer within the same breast quadrant) and multicentric disease (i.e. the presence of two or more foci of breast cancer in different quadrants of the same breast) are allowed.
* Patients with T3N0 disease are eligible.
* Patients with disease limited to nodal micrometastases are eligible
* Patients with nodal macrometastases (\>2mm) treated by axillary dissection must have 1-3 positive axillary nodes (macrometastases, \> 2 mm).
* Patients treated by mastectomy and SLNB alone must have only 1-2 positive axillary nodes (macrometastases, \> 2 mm).
* Patients must be ER ≥ 1% and HER2 negative on local testing
* Patients must have an Oncotype DX recurrence score ≤25 obtained from testing of breast tumour tissue from a core biopsy or from the surgical specimen.
* Patient must consent to provision of, and investigator(s) must agree to submit to the CCTG Central Tumour Bank, a representative formalin fixed paraffin block of tumour tissue in order that the specific correlative marker assays described in the protocol may be conducted
* Patient must consent to provision of samples of blood in order that the specific correlative marker assays described in the protocol may be conducted.
* Patients must have had endocrine therapy initiated or planned for ≥ 5 years. Premenopausal women will receive ovarian ablation plus aromatase inhibitor therapy or tamoxifen if adjuvant chemotherapy was not administered. For all patients, endocrine therapy can be given concurrently or following RT.
* Patients may or may not have had adjuvant chemotherapy.
* RT must commence within 16 weeks of definitive surgery if the patient is not treated with chemotherapy. If adjuvant chemotherapy is given, RT must begin within 12 weeks after the last dose. (Note: adjuvant chemotherapy may be ongoing at the time of randomization). Definitive surgery is defined as the last breast cancer-related surgery.
* Patient's ECOG performance status must be 0, 1 or 2.
* Patient's age must be ≥ 35 years.
* For the first 736 eligible English or French-speaking subjects who have agreed to optional questionnaire completion: Patient is able (i.e. sufficiently fluent) and willing to complete the quality of life, health utilities and lost productivity questionnaires in either English or French (note: enrollment completed 2022Aug02)
* Patient consent must be appropriately obtained in accordance with applicable local and regulatory requirements
* Patients must be accessible for treatment and follow-up. Investigators must assure themselves the patients randomized on this trial will be available for complete documentation of the treatment, adverse events, and follow-up.
* In accordance with CCTG policy, protocol treatment is to begin within 6 weeks of patient randomization.
* Women of childbearing potential must have agreed to use an effective contraceptive method. A woman is considered to be of "childbearing potential" if she has had menses at any time in the preceding 12 consecutive months.
Exclusion Criteria:
* Patients with nodal disease limited to isolated tumour cells (pN0i+ \< 0.2 mm).
* Patients with pT3N1 and pT4 disease (Note: patients with T3N0 are eligible).
* Any prior history, not including the index cancer, of ipsilateral invasive breast cancer or ipsilateral DCIS treated with radiation therapy. (Patients with synchronous or previous ipsilateral LCIS are eligible.)
* Synchronous or previous contralateral invasive breast cancer. (Patients with contralateral DCIS are eligible unless previously treated with radiation.)
* History of non-breast malignancies except adequately treated non-melanoma skin cancers, in situ cancers treated by local excision or other cancers curatively treated with no evidence of disease for ≥ 5 years.
* Patients who are pregnant.
* Patients that have had prior ipsilateral chestwall/thoracic radiation.
* Patients treated with chemo or endocrine therapy administered in the neoadjuvant setting for breast cancer. Endocrine therapy exposure 12 weeks or less prior to surgery is permitted.
* Patients with serious non-malignant disease (e.g. cardiovascular, scleroderma etc.) which would preclude RT.
* Patients with any serious active or co-morbid medical conditions, laboratory abnormality, psychiatric illness, active or uncontrolled infections, or serious illnesses or medical conditions that would prevent the patient from participating or to be managed according to the protocol (according to investigator's decision).
Primary outcome measure(s)
compare the breast cancer recurrence-free interval (BCRFI) between patients that received regional RT or not — 9.5 years Defined as time from randomization to time of invasive recurrent disease in the ipsilateral chestwall, breast, regional nodes, distant sites or death due to BC.
Trial sites (485)
Facility
City
Region
Status
Fairbanks Memorial Hospital
Fairbanks
Alaska
Banner MD Anderson Cancer Center
Gilbert
Arizona
Banner-University Medical Center Phoenix
Phoenix
Arizona
University of Arizona Cancer Center-Orange Grove Campus
Tucson
Arizona
University of Arizona Cancer Center-North Campus
Tucson
Arizona
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Little Rock
Arkansas
Kaiser Permanente-Anaheim
Anaheim
California
Kaiser Permanente-Bellflower
Bellflower
California
Alta Bates Summit Medical Center-Herrick Campus
Berkeley
California
City of Hope Corona
Corona
California
City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center
Duarte
California
Kaiser Permanente Dublin
Dublin
California
UC San Diego Health System - Encinitas
Encinitas
California
Fresno Cancer Center
Fresno
California
City of Hope at Irvine Lennar
Irvine
California
UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center
La Jolla
California
City of Hope Antelope Valley
Lancaster
California
Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center
Los Angeles
California
Los Angeles General Medical Center
Los Angeles
California
USC / Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center
Los Angeles
California
Providence Queen of The Valley
Napa
California
Kaiser Permanente Oakland-Broadway
Oakland
California
Kaiser Permanente-Ontario
Ontario
California
Saint Joseph Hospital - Orange
Orange
California
UC Irvine Health/Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
Orange
California
Desert Regional Medical Center
Palm Springs
California
Kaiser Permanente-Rancho Cordova Cancer Center
Rancho Cordova
California
Rohnert Park Cancer Center
Rohnert Park
California
The Permanente Medical Group-Roseville Radiation Oncology
Roseville
California
Mercy Cancer Center - Sacramento
Sacramento
California
Kaiser Permanente Medical Center - Santa Clara
Santa Clara
California
Saint John's Cancer Institute
Santa Monica
California
City of Hope South Pasadena
South Pasadena
California
Kaiser Permanente Cancer Treatment Center
South San Francisco
California
Saint Helena Hospital
St. Helena
California
City of Hope South Bay
Torrance
California
City of Hope Upland
Upland
California
Sutter Solano Medical Center/Cancer Center
Vallejo
California
BASS Medical Group - Lennon
Walnut Creek
California
UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital
Aurora
Colorado
+ 445 more sites — see the full list on the official registry below.
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This page summarises publicly available registry data for informational purposes — not medical advice. Eligibility is determined by each study team; patients should discuss participation with their clinician.
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