Doxorubicin or Epirubicin and Cyclophosphamide in Treating Older Women With Invasive Breast Cancer
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Purpose
RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as doxorubicin, epirubicin, and cyclophosphamide, work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. Giving combination chemotherapy after surgery may kill any tumor cells that remain after surgery. Sometimes, after surgery, the tumor may not need more treatment until it progresses. In this case, observation may be sufficient. It is not yet known whether giving doxorubicin or epirubicin together with cyclophosphamide is more effective than observation in treating older women with invasive breast cancer.
PURPOSE: This randomized phase III trial is studying doxorubicin or epirubicin and cyclophosphamide to see how well they work compared with observation in treating older women with invasive breast cancer.
| Condition | Intervention | Phase |
|---|---|---|
|
Breast Cancer |
Biological: pegfilgrastim Drug: cyclophosphamide Drug: doxorubicin hydrochloride Drug: epirubicin hydrochloride Genetic: proteomic profiling Other: diagnostic laboratory biomarker analysis Other: matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time of flight mass spectrometry Other: pharmacological study Other: surface-enhanced laser desorption/ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry Procedure: adjuvant therapy |
Phase 3 |
| Study Type: | Interventional |
| Study Design: | Allocation: Randomized Primary Purpose: Treatment |
| Official Title: | Adjuvant Cytotoxic Chemotherapy In Older Women |
- Relapse-free interval [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Physical, functional, and breast cancer concerns as measured by the Trial Outcome Index (TOI) [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Total FACT-AN score [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Total FACT-F score [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Disease-free survival [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Overall survival [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Cause-specific survival [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Distant disease-free survival [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Safety and tolerability (overall and for each treatment schedule) [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
- Treatment compliance (overall and for each treatment schedule) [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Quality of life [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Total FACT-B score [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Individual subscales on activities of daily living [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
| Estimated Enrollment: | 1000 |
| Study Start Date: | January 2007 |
OBJECTIVES:
- To provide evidence for extending the current standard care in older women with invasive breast carcinoma treated with adjuvant chemotherapy comprising doxorubicin hydrochloride or epirubicin hydrochloride and cyclophosphamide.
- Compare the relapse-free survival interval of these patients treated with adjuvant chemotherapy vs no adjuvant chemotherapy.
- Compare the toxicity of accelerated adjuvant chemotherapy with pegfilgrastim support vs non-accelerated adjuvant chemotherapy.
OUTLINE: This is a multicenter study. Patients are stratified according to participating center and indication for endocrine therapy (yes vs no). Patients are randomized to 1 of 2 arms.
- Arm I (observation): Patients do not receive adjuvant chemotherapy.
Arm II (adjuvant chemotherapy): Patients are randomized to 1 of 2 chemotherapy regimens.
- Accelerated adjuvant chemotherapy: Patients receive doxorubicin hydrochloride and cyclophosphamide (AC) OR epirubicin hydrochloride and cyclophosphamide (EC) on day 1 and pegfilgrastim on day 2. Treatment repeats every 2 weeks for 4 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
- Non-accelerated adjuvant chemotherapy: Patients receive AC or EC on day 1. Treatment repeats every 3 weeks for 4 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
Patients undergo tumor tissue and blood sample collection for biological, pharmacological, and proteomic studies. Samples are initially used to establish a resource of materials available for different research groups. Samples are also analyzed using SELDI or MALDI-ToF technology to identify biological profiles that correlate with prognosis or predict response to treatment.
Quality of life is assessed at baseline, 6 weeks, 1 month, 6 months, 9 months, 12 months, 18 months, and 24 months.
After completion of study treatment, patients are followed every 6 months for 2 years and then annually thereafter.
Eligibility| Ages Eligible for Study: | 70 Years and older |
| Genders Eligible for Study: | Female |
| Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:
- Histologically confirmed invasive breast carcinoma
Primary operable breast cancer that was surgically treated by wide local excision or mastectomy with clear margins (> 1 mm apart from deep margin if full thickness resection)
- No more than 8 weeks since prior definitive surgery
Early-stage disease with no evidence of metastases clinically or on routine staging investigations
- No T4 and/or N3 disease
Prior axillary staging required, including 1 of the following:
- Sentinel node biopsy
Axillary sampling or clearance
- All node-positive patients must have had axillary clearance or radiotherapy to the axilla
- Must be at high risk of relapse within 5 years (risk factors evaluated at clinician's discretion)
- No other invasive breast cancer, systemically treated ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), or solid tumor within the past 5 years
- No prior hematologic malignancy or melanoma
Hormone receptor status:
- Estrogen receptor (ER)- or progesterone receptor (PR)-negative OR ER/PR-weakly positive (e.g., Allred/Quick score ≤ 5 OR H score ≤ 100)
PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:
- Female
- Postmenopausal
- Performance status 0-1
- Hemoglobin > 9 g/dL
- WBC > 3,000/mm³
- Platelet count > 100,000/mm³
- Bilirubin normal (unless known Gilbert's disease is present)
- Albumin normal
- AST and ALT ≤ 1.5 x upper limit of normal (ULN)
- Creatinine ≤ 1.5 x ULN
- Creatinine clearance > 50 mL/min
- No active or uncontrolled infection
- Must be available for routine long-term hospital follow-up
- Must have normal cardiac function and no significant cardiac disease by ECHO or MUGA
PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:
- See Disease Characteristics
- At least 4 weeks since prior preoperative endocrine therapy
- No prior systemic therapy for this breast cancer or mantle radiotherapy
- No prior breast-conserving surgery in which there is a contraindication for, or decline of postoperative radiotherapy
- No concurrent hormone replacement therapy (HRT)
Contacts and Locations| United Kingdom | |
| Charing Cross Hospital | Recruiting |
| London, England, United Kingdom, W6 8RF | |
| Contact: Robert C.F. Leonard, MD, BS, MB 44-208-846-7237 | |
| Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | Recruiting |
| Westcliff-On-Sea, England, United Kingdom, SS0 0RY | |
| Contact: Anne Robinson, MD 44-1702-221-226 | |
| Principal Investigator: | Robert C.F. Leonard, MD, BS, MB | Charing Cross Hospital |
More Information
Additional Information:
No publications provided
| ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00516425 History of Changes |
| Other Study ID Numbers: | CDR0000561076, UKM-CCH-ACTION, ICR-CTSU/2006/10004-ACTION, EU-20751, EUDRACT-2005-005721, ISRCTN41708421, BIG-205 |
| Study First Received: | August 14, 2007 |
| Last Updated: | June 23, 2011 |
| Health Authority: | Unspecified |
Keywords provided by National Cancer Institute (NCI):
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stage IA breast cancer stage IB breast cancer stage II breast cancer stage IIIA breast cancer |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
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Breast Neoplasms Neoplasms by Site Neoplasms Breast Diseases Skin Diseases Adjuvants, Immunologic Cyclophosphamide Doxorubicin Epirubicin Immunologic Factors Physiological Effects of Drugs |
Pharmacologic Actions Immunosuppressive Agents Antirheumatic Agents Therapeutic Uses Antineoplastic Agents, Alkylating Alkylating Agents Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action Antineoplastic Agents Myeloablative Agonists Antibiotics, Antineoplastic |
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