Surgical Resection With or Without Axillary Lymph Node Dissection in Treating Women With Node-Negative Breast Cancer and Sentinel Lymph Node Micrometastases

NCT ID: NCT00072293

Last Updated: 2018-01-23

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

931 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2001-12-31

Study Completion Date

2017-03-31

Brief Summary

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RATIONALE: Surgery to remove lymph nodes in the armpit in patients with sentinel lymph node micrometastases may remove cancer cells that have spread from tumors in the breast. It is not yet known whether surgery to remove the primary tumor is more effective with or without axillary lymph node dissection.

PURPOSE: This randomized phase III trial is studying surgery and axillary lymph node dissection to see how well they work compared to surgery alone in treating women with node-negative breast cancer and sentinel lymph node micrometastases.

Detailed Description

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OBJECTIVES:

* Compare disease-free survival of women with clinically node-negative breast cancer with sentinel lymph node micrometastases treated with surgical resection with or without axillary dissection.
* Compare overall survival of patients treated with these regimens.
* Assess sites of recurrence, particularly reappearance of disease in the undissected axilla.
* Assess long-term surgical complications in patients treated with these regimens.

OUTLINE: This is a multicenter study. Patients are stratified according to participating center, menopausal status (pre- vs postmenopausal), and preoperative sentinel node biopsy (yes vs no). Patients are followed every 4 months for 1 year, every 6 months for 4 years, and then annually thereafter.

Conditions

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Breast Cancer

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Axillary Dissection

Patients undergo surgical resection of the primary tumor with axillary lymph node dissection following sentinel lymph node assessment.

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Axillary lymph node dissection

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Axillary lymph node dissection

No Axillary Dissection

Patients undergo surgical resection of the primary tumor with no axillary lymph node dissection following sentinel lymph node assessment.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

No axillary lymph node dissection

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Therapeutic conventional surgery

Interventions

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Axillary lymph node dissection

Axillary lymph node dissection

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

No axillary lymph node dissection

Therapeutic conventional surgery

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

* Clinical, mammographic, ultrasonographic, or pathologic diagnosis of unicentric and unifocal breast carcinoma
* Largest tumor lesion ≤ 5 cm
* Palpable or nonpalpable breast lesion

* Preoperative radioactive occult lesion localization, hook wire, or other method of localization required for nonpalpable lesions
* Prior (preoperative) or planned (intraoperative) sentinel node biopsy required

* At least 1 micrometastatic (i.e., no greater than 2 mm) sentinel lymph node with no extracapsular extension
* No clinical evidence of distant metastases

* No suspicious manifestation of metastases that cannot be ruled out by x-ray, MRI, or CT scan, including the following:

* Skeletal pain of unknown cause
* Elevated alkaline phosphatase
* Bone scan showing hot spots
* No palpable axillary lymph node(s)
* No Paget's disease without invasive cancer
* Hormone receptor status:

* Estrogen receptor and progesterone receptor known

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

Age

* Any age

Sex

* Female

Menopausal status

* Any status

Performance status

* Not specified

Life expectancy

* Not specified

Hematopoietic

* Not specified

Hepatic

* See Disease Characteristics

Renal

* Not specified

Other

* Not pregnant or nursing
* No other prior or concurrent malignancy except the following:

* Adequately treated basal cell or squamous cell skin cancer
* Adequately treated carcinoma in situ of the cervix
* Adequately treated in situ melanoma
* Contralateral or ipsilateral carcinoma in situ of the breast
* No psychiatric, addictive, or other disorder that may compromise ability to give informed consent
* Geographically accessible for follow-up

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

Biologic therapy

* Not specified

Chemotherapy

* Not specified

Endocrine therapy

* Not specified

Radiotherapy

* Not specified

Surgery

* See Disease Characteristics

Other

* No prior systemic therapy for breast cancer
* More than 1 year since prior chemopreventive agent
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

FEMALE

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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ETOP IBCSG Partners Foundation

NETWORK

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Viviana E. Galimberti

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

European Institute of Oncology

Umberto Veronesi, MD, Prof.

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

European Institute of Oncology

Locations

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Lismore Base Hospital

Lismore, New South Wales, Australia

Site Status

St Vincents Hospital

Lismore, New South Wales, Australia

Site Status

Mater Hospital - North Sydney

North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Site Status

Royal North Shore Hospital

St Leonards, New South Wales, Australia

Site Status

Sydney Cancer Centre at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Site Status

Riverina Cancer Care Centre

Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia

Site Status

Westmead Institute for Cancer Research at Westmead Hospital

Westmead, New South Wales, Australia

Site Status

Royal Adelaide Hospital Cancer Centre

Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Site Status

Royal Melbourne Hospital

Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Site Status

St. John of God Hospital - Bunbury

Bunbury, Western Australia, Australia

Site Status

CHU Liege - Domaine Universitaire du Sart Tilman

Liège, , Belgium

Site Status

Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre

Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Site Status

Horsholm Sygenus

Hørsholm, , Denmark

Site Status

Institut Gustave Roussy

Villejuif, , France

Site Status

Centro di Riferimento Oncologico - Aviano

Aviano, , Italy

Site Status

Ospedali Riuniti di Bergamo

Bergamo, , Italy

Site Status

University of Bologna Medical School

Bologna, , Italy

Site Status

Universita di Ferrara

Ferrara, , Italy

Site Status

Ospedale Alessandro Manzoni

Lecco, , Italy

Site Status

Istituto Scientifico H. San Raffaele

Milan, , Italy

Site Status

European Institute of Oncology

Milan, , Italy

Site Status

Fondazione Salvatore Maugeri

Pavia, , Italy

Site Status

North Shore Hospital

Auckland, , New Zealand

Site Status

Waikato Hospital

Hamilton, , New Zealand

Site Status

Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Neoplasicas

Lima, , Peru

Site Status

Institute of Oncology - Ljubljana

Ljubljana, , Slovenia

Site Status

Kantonspital Aarau

Aarau, , Switzerland

Site Status

Oncology Institute of Southern Switzerland

Bellinzona, , Switzerland

Site Status

Inselspital Bern

Bern, , Switzerland

Site Status

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois

Lausanne, , Switzerland

Site Status

Kantonsspital - St. Gallen

Sankt Gallen, , Switzerland

Site Status

Countries

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Australia Belgium Brazil Denmark France Italy New Zealand Peru Slovenia Switzerland

References

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Galimberti V, Cole BF, Viale G, Veronesi P, Vicini E, Intra M, Mazzarol G, Massarut S, Zgajnar J, Taffurelli M, Littlejohn D, Knauer M, Tondini C, Di Leo A, Colleoni M, Regan MM, Coates AS, Gelber RD, Goldhirsch A; International Breast Cancer Study Group Trial 23-01. Axillary dissection versus no axillary dissection in patients with breast cancer and sentinel-node micrometastases (IBCSG 23-01): 10-year follow-up of a randomised, controlled phase 3 trial. Lancet Oncol. 2018 Oct;19(10):1385-1393. doi: 10.1016/S1470-2045(18)30380-2. Epub 2018 Sep 5.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 30196031 (View on PubMed)

Galimberti V, Cole BF, Zurrida S, Viale G, Luini A, Veronesi P, Baratella P, Chifu C, Sargenti M, Intra M, Gentilini O, Mastropasqua MG, Mazzarol G, Massarut S, Garbay JR, Zgajnar J, Galatius H, Recalcati A, Littlejohn D, Bamert M, Colleoni M, Price KN, Regan MM, Goldhirsch A, Coates AS, Gelber RD, Veronesi U; International Breast Cancer Study Group Trial 23-01 investigators. Axillary dissection versus no axillary dissection in patients with sentinel-node micrometastases (IBCSG 23-01): a phase 3 randomised controlled trial. Lancet Oncol. 2013 Apr;14(4):297-305. doi: 10.1016/S1470-2045(13)70035-4. Epub 2013 Mar 11.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 23491275 (View on PubMed)

Related Links

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23491275

Abstract from paper published in Lancet Oncology, 2013

Other Identifiers

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IBCSG 23-01

Identifier Type: OTHER

Identifier Source: secondary_id

CDR0000339581

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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