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NCT Number: NCT02200705

Cryoablation of Low Risk Small Breast Cancer- ICE3 Trial

To evaluate the efficacy of cryoablation without lumpectomy and its impact on local and distant recurrence of early stage breast cancer .

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Key information

Age range

50 year and older

Sex eligibility

Female

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Ironwood Cancer & Research Centers, Glendale, Arizona, United States

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Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

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

Inclusion criteria

  • Competent to sign informed consent
  • Diagnosis of invasive ductal breast carcinoma by core needle biopsy, meeting the following criteria:
  • Unifocal primary disease NOTE: Patients with multifocal and/or multicentric in breast cancer, or evidence of EIC are NOT eligible. Patients with contralateral disease will remain eligible.
  • Tumor size ≤1.5 cm in greatest diameter in the axis parallel to the treatment probe AND ≤1.5 cm in the axis anti-parallel to the treatment probe AND ≤1.5 cm in Anterior/ Posterior dimension. Tumor size ≤1.5 cm in greatest diameter as measured by breast ultrasound, mammogram and/or MRI. The largest dimension measured will be used to determine eligibility.
  • Nottingham grade 1-2. Specifically, nuclear and mitotic scores must be less than or equal to 2.
  • Estrogen receptor-positive, progesterone receptor-positive, HER2 negative
  • Age>= 50
  • Breast size adequate for safe cryoablation
  • Lesion must be sonographically visible at the time of treatment.
  • History of previously treated ipsilateral or contralateral breast carcinoma is not an exclusion criteria if the investigator is certain newly diagnosed carcinoma is new unifocal primary tumor.

Exclusion criteria

  • Presence of lobular carcinoma
  • Presence of luminal B pathology
  • Nottingham score of 3 (specially nuclear and mitotic score>2)
  • Presence of microinvasion, or invasive breast carcinoma with extensive intraductal component (EIC)
  • Presence of multifocal and/or multicentric in breast cancer
  • Presence of multifocal calcifications
  • Presence of prior or concurrent neoadjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer
  • Presence of prior en bloc open surgical biopsy and/or lumpectomy for diagnosis/treatment of the index breast cancer
  • Patient that is not suitable to cryoablation procedure according to the physician opinion
  • ER AND PR negative, or Her2 positive noted on pre-cryo biopsy

Treatment and study plan

Ice-Sense3TM/ ProSenseTM

Device

Primary outcomes

  1. Local Inbreast Breast Tumor Recurrence (IBTR) Rate

    Time frame: up to 5 years

    6 months post cryoabltion, then annually for 5 years

Secondary outcomes

  1. Complete Primary Tumor Ablation Rate

    Time frame: up to 5 years from procedure date.

    Complete ablation of primary tumor up to 60 months after cryoablation, reported as the percentage of patients with complete tumor ablation.

  2. Improvement or Maintenance of Subject's Quality of Life

    Time frame: Baseline and 6 months

    Quality of life will be assessed using the NCCN Distress Thermometer, a 0-10 scale measuring patient distress (0 = no distress, 10 = extreme distress; higher scores indicate worse distress), collected at baseline and at 6 months follow-up visit.

  3. Breast Cosmetics Satisfaction

    Time frame: Up to 5 years following procedure

    Participants and treating physicians rated satisfaction with cosmetic outcomes following breast cryoablation.

  4. Regional Recurrence Rate

    Time frame: up to 5 years following procedure

    Regional Invasive breast tumor recurrence rate.

  5. Distant Metastases Survival Rate

    Time frame: up to 5 years following procedure

    Distant metastases survival rate, including contralateral Breast cancer

  6. Disease-free Survival (DFS)

    Time frame: up to 5 years

    DFS from the date of complete ablation of the primary tumor until the first disease event, where the disease event is defined as local (DCIS or invasive), regional, or distant breast cancer recurrence, or DCIS or invasive contralateral breast cancer.

  7. Overall Survival

    Time frame: up to 5 years

    Overall survival from the date of the cryoablation until the date of death from any cause or up to the 60 months follow up visit

  8. Breast Cancer Survival.

    Time frame: up to 5 years

    Breast Cancer Survival from the date of cryoablation until the date of death from breast cancer or up to the 60 months follow-up visit.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

IceCure Medical Ltd.

Industry

Registry information

Official study title

Cryoablation of Low Risk Breast Cancer Less Than 1.5 cm: An Evaluation of Local Recurrence (Ice3 Trial)

Important dates

Study start
2014
Primary completion
2024
Study completion
2024
First posted
Jul 25, 2014
Registry last updated
Jul 7, 2026

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