Multicentre Study to Determine the Feasibility of Using an Integrated Consent Model to Compare Three Standard of Care Regimens for The Treatment of Triple-Negative Breast Cancer in the Neoadjuvant/Adjuvant Setting (REaCT-TNBC)

NCT ID: NCT02688803

Last Updated: 2025-12-04

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

TERMINATED

Clinical Phase

PHASE4

Total Enrollment

2 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2016-08-30

Study Completion Date

2017-10-31

Brief Summary

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Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is a term applied to breast cancer cases that have \<1% expression of the estrogen receptor (ER) and the progesterone receptor (PR) and do not over express HER2.

TNBC is diagnosed in 15-20% of breast cancer cases and tends to occur in younger women and have biologically more aggressive high grade disease. Clinically, patients with TNBC have a poorer prognosis compared to patients diagnosed with other breast cancer subtypes. Because of the aggressive phenotype and due to observations that systemic chemotherapy offers significantly higher benefit in ER negative disease, current treatment guidelines from provincial and other organizations recommend that patients receive adjuvant systemic chemotherapy for any TNBC greater than 0.5 cm in greatest diameter or node positive independent of primary tumor size.

Currently, there is no world-wide standard recommended chemotherapy regimen for the management of TNBC in the neoadjuvant/adjuvant setting, with treatments varying from region and institution.

As physicians do not know what the "best" treatment for patients is, genuine uncertainty ("clinical equipoise") exists. Physicians will choose between different "standards" in their personal practice, using idiosyncratic decision making processes, without the physician or the patient knowing the optimal option. This is not good for patients, physicians and society as a whole. Determining the optimal treatment remains an important medical issue for patients, physicians and society. This study will survey opinions on a novel method to allow comparisons of established standard of care prophylactic treatment using the "integrated consent model" as part of a pragmatic clinical trial and attempt to compare head to head standard chemotherapy regimens in patients with TNBC.

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Breast Cancer

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Dose dense AC-P

Dose dense AC-P (doxorubicin 60 mg/m2 plus cyclophosphamide 600 mg/m2 q2weeks x 4 cycles followed by paclitaxel 175 mg/m2 q2weeks x 4 cycles)

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Dose dense AC-P

Intervention Type DRUG

(doxorubicin 60 mg/m2 plus cyclophosphamide 600 mg/m2 q2weeks x 4 cycles followed by paclitaxel 175 mg/m2 q2weeks x 4 cycles)

Dose dense AC

Dose dense AC followed by weekly P (doxorubicin 60 mg/m2 plus cyclophosphamide 600 mg/m2 q2weeks x 4 cycles followed by paclitaxel 80 mg/m2 weekly x 12 cycles)

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Dose dense AC

Intervention Type DRUG

Dose dense AC followed by weekly P (doxorubicin 60 mg/m2 plus cyclophosphamide 600 mg/m2 q2weeks x 4 cycles followed by paclitaxel 80 mg/m2 weekly x 12 cycles)

FEC-D

FEC-D (5-FU 500 mg/m2 plus epirubicin 100 mg/m2 plus cyclophosphamide 500 mg/m2 q3weeks x 3 cycles followed by docetaxel 100 mg/m2 q3weeks x 3 cycles)

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

FEC-D

Intervention Type DRUG

FEC-D (5-FU 500 mg/m2 plus epirubicin 100 mg/m2 plus cyclophosphamide 500 mg/m2 q3weeks x 3 cycles followed by docetaxel 100 mg/m2 q3weeks x 3 cycles)

Interventions

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Dose dense AC-P

(doxorubicin 60 mg/m2 plus cyclophosphamide 600 mg/m2 q2weeks x 4 cycles followed by paclitaxel 175 mg/m2 q2weeks x 4 cycles)

Intervention Type DRUG

Dose dense AC

Dose dense AC followed by weekly P (doxorubicin 60 mg/m2 plus cyclophosphamide 600 mg/m2 q2weeks x 4 cycles followed by paclitaxel 80 mg/m2 weekly x 12 cycles)

Intervention Type DRUG

FEC-D

FEC-D (5-FU 500 mg/m2 plus epirubicin 100 mg/m2 plus cyclophosphamide 500 mg/m2 q3weeks x 3 cycles followed by docetaxel 100 mg/m2 q3weeks x 3 cycles)

Intervention Type DRUG

Other Intervention Names

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doxorubicin cyclophosphamide paclitaxel doxorubicin cyclophosphamide paclitaxel 5-FU cyclophosphamide docetaxel

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Histologically confirmed primary TNBC breast cancer
* Planned for chemotherapy
* ≥18 years of age
* Able to provide verbal consent
* Willing to complete a survey

Exclusion Criteria

* Metastatic disease
* Contraindication to one or more of the chemotherapy agents being evaluated in the study
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

FEMALE

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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John Hilton, Dr.

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

The Ottawa Hospital

Locations

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The Ottawa Hospital Cancer Centre

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Site Status

Countries

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Canada

References

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Jacobs C, Clemons M, Mazzarello S, Hutton B, Joy AA, Brackstone M, Freedman O, Vandermeer L, Ibrahim M, Fergusson D, Hilton J. Enhancing accrual to chemotherapy trials for patients with early stage triple-negative breast cancer: a survey of physicians and patients. Support Care Cancer. 2017 Jun;25(6):1881-1886. doi: 10.1007/s00520-017-3580-4. Epub 2017 Jan 27.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 28127659 (View on PubMed)

Hilton J, Stober C, Mazzarello S, Vandermeer L, Fergusson D, Hutton B, Clemons M. Randomised feasibility trial to compare three standard of care chemotherapy regimens for early stage triple-negative breast cancer (REaCT-TNBC trial). PLoS One. 2018 Jul 24;13(7):e0199297. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0199297. eCollection 2018.

Reference Type RESULT
PMID: 30040817 (View on PubMed)

Provided Documents

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Document Type: Study Protocol and Statistical Analysis Plan

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Related Links

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https://react.ohri.ca/studies/

The Rethinking Clinical Trials (REaCT) website

Other Identifiers

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20160078-01H

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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