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NCT Number: NCT02994225

Axillary Reverse Mapping Using Near-infrared Imaging in Invasive Breast Cancer: Predictors of Nodal Positivity

The initial standard treatment of breast cancer is surgery. Tumor involvement of lymph nodes is of paramount importance in the subsequent management of this cancer and surgery of invasive breast cancer (BC) involves axillary lymph node dissection (ALND). To preserve arm lymphatic drainage during ALND and avoid the risk of arm lymphedema, mapping the lymphatic drainage by axillary reverse mapping (ARM) has been developed. But oncological safety is uncertain.

The ARM procedure presented here uses indocyanine green (ICG) and fluorescence detection of draining lymphatics. The project aims to train surgeons to the technique and to identify predictive factors for metastatic ARM nodes in invasive BC using tumor and axillary pathological parameters to better select patients who would not require removal of the ARM node in the future

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Key information

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

Female

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Gustave Roussy

Villejuif, Val De Marne, 94805, France

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Adult patients over 18 years of age
  • Preoperative diagnosis of Invasive breast cancer
  • Patient deemed for total mastectomy with axillary lymph node dissection (ALND)
  • Subject capable of giving informed consent and participating in the process of consent
  • Affiliated to the french social security

Exclusion criteria

  • Mastectomy without ALND
  • Previous ipsilateral axillary radiotherapy
  • Previous axillary surgery
  • Pregnant women as determined by urinary or serum beta human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) within 72 hours of surgery
  • Breastfeeding
  • Allergy to indocyanine green
  • Patients with a known history of reaction to iodine or iodine-containing compounds.
  • No consent
  • Impaired capacity to make informed medical decisions
  • Patient on guardianship

Treatment and study plan

Indocyanine green

Drug

Subcutaneous injection (1 ml) of the indocyanine green into the ipsilateral upper extremity 10 min before the surgery.

Near Infra-red images acquisition is performed during surgery

Primary outcomes

  1. Rate of identification

    Time frame: up to 30 days

    To determine the Rate of identification of reverse axillary node using Indocyanine green (ICG) and near-infrared (NIR) imaging in invasive breast cancer that undergo total mastectomy and ALND.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Gustave Roussy, Cancer Campus, Grand Paris

Other

Registry information

Acronym: ARMONIC

Important dates

Study start
2017
Primary completion
2019
Study completion
2019
First posted
Dec 15, 2016
Registry last updated
May 16, 2022

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