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NCT Number: NCT04469296

Diet Modification in pAtients With Luminal Early Breast Cancer Candidate for Primary Surgery

to analyze the feasibility for patients with early luminal breast cancer to be compliant with a diet modification - ketogenic or proteins restricted diet - during 9 +/- 1 days, before breast cancer surgery.

It's a Pilot study, monocentric, randomized

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Key information

Age range

18 year–80 year

Sex eligibility

Female

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Icm Val D'Aurelle

Montpellier, Herault, 34298, France

Location status: Recruiting

Location contact

Veronique D'HONDT, MD

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About this study

Many patients are modifying their diet after the diagnosis of cancer. There is a supposedly benefit, among the general public, of starving cancer cells with several diet deprivations.

Due to the lack of coherent scientific data, no evidence base recommendations can be made regarding the optimal diet during cancer and its effect on cancer growth.

The objective of this trial is to analyze the feasibility for patients with early luminal breast cancer to be compliant with a diet modification - ketogenic or proteins restricted diet - during 9 +/- 1 days, before breast cancer surgery.

The primary objective of the trial is to evaluate the compliance to the proposed diet.

The study will be conducted in patients with luminal early breast cancer, candidate to primary surgery, in order to study an homogeneous population of patients, with good performance status and without nutritional deprivation.

Metabolic changes on the main metabolic pathways and the potential antitumor effects related to these metabolic changes following the diet will be analyzed as secondary objectives of the study. We hope to find biological hypotheses to further test in a next larger prospective trial.

The impact of the patient's beliefs, anxiety and/or depression on the compliance will be analyzed as well.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

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

Inclusion criteria

  • Women 18 to 80 years old
  • Invasive breast carcinoma, non-metastatic, stage I to III, pathologically proven, ER and/or PR positive, HER2 negative (luminal)
  • No treatment yet for the current breast cancer
  • Candidate for primary surgery
  • Body mass index (BMI) between 18.5 and 30 for women up to 70 years old and between 21 and 30 for women between 70 and 80 years old.
  • For patient ≥ 70 years, score of the Oncodage G8 questionnaire > 14 (if score ≤ 14, consultation with an oncogeriatrician required to validate the possibility of following a diet
  • No addiction (alcohol, tobacco, drug, electronic cigarette) that modifies the metabolism (alcohol : ≤ 2 glasses/d or ≤10 glasses/week ; tobacco : only occasional or stopped for ≥ 6 months)
  • Performance status 0-1
  • Fasting blood test :

Blood cell counts : Neutrophils > 1000/µL, Platelets > 100 000/µL, Hb > 11g/dL Hepatic biology: GOT, GPT, GGT, Phosphatases alcalines < 2x normal value Renal function : clearance > 60 mL /min Lipid profile : Total cholesterol < 1.5 x normal value, HDL>0.35g/L, LDL < 2.2 g/L (<5.7 mml/L), Triglycerides < 1.5 x normal value Fasting blood glucose < 1.26 g/l Measurement of electrolytes: Potassium, Sodium, Calcium, Magnesium (according to normal laboratory values)

  • ECG with a QTc interval ≤ 450 msec
  • Patient able to understand, participate and give a written consent for participation to the study

Exclusion criteria

  • Metabolic disease or other disease impairing the metabolism analysis
  • High level athlete
  • Unintentional weight loss ≥ 5% during the last month, or 10% during the last 6 months or compared to usual weight
  • Unjustified dietary supplement (not justified by a measured deficiency) during the last month
  • Restricted of unbalanced diet (vegan diet, restricted hypocaloric, hyper or hypo protein…) during the last month
  • Practice of fasting during the last 3 months
  • Corticoids that can't be stopped or not stopped for 2 weeks
  • Mellitus diabetes (with or without insulin)
  • Hypercholesterolemia requiring a treatment
  • Invasive lobular carcinoma
  • Pregnant or breast-feeding women
  • Participation to another study with an investigational treatment during the last 30 days
  • Individuals under the protection of a conservator
  • Unaffiliated patient to Social Protection System.

Treatment and study plan

iso-caloric ketogenic diet

Dietary Supplement

Each patient will be offered a daily diet plan that includes the different groups of low glycemic index foods to bring to each meal and snack, with the notion of quantity. Carbohydrate-free foods can be consumed ad libitum. Dietary advice will be given to increase the consumption of lipid foods (vegetable oils, butter, cheeses, fatty fish, etc.) so that 65% of the total energy intake is provided by lipids. In addition, a list of unauthorized sugars and sweeteners substitutes will be proposed as well as a low glycemic index food composition table centered on carbohydrates for better control of food choice

protein restricted diet

Dietary Supplement

A diet reducing by 20% the amount of protein compared to the usual intake of the patient will be proposed. This new ration will be carried out by calculating the proportion of total energy intake provided by the amount of protein reduced by 20% compared to the usual intake, and by modifying lipid and carbohydrate intakes to obtain an isocaloric ration.

Primary outcomes

  1. study of the compliance of patients to the two proposed diets. The proportion of compliant patients to the proposed diet according to the dietary survey realized during 3 days

    Time frame: during 3 days before the primary surgery

    A patient is considered compliant to the diet if the caloric intake is equal +/- 25% to the caloric intake of the proposed diet AND For the ketogenic diet : the carbohydrate intake is equal +/- 25% to the carbohydrate intake of the proposed diet; i.e. a carbohydrate intake between 7.5 and 12.5% of the total energy intake For the protein restricted diet, the protein intake is equal +/- 25% to the protein intake proposed for this diet; i.e. a reduction between 15 and 25% compared to the previous protein intake

Secondary outcomes

  1. study of the molecular consequences of diet modifications on cancer cells and their microenvironment

    Time frame: At the inclusion visit and the day of surgery

    analyse markers of cell proliferation in cancer and immune cells with blood sample and tumor sample. Evaluation of markers involved in carbohydrate mitochondrial and lipid metabolism, and markers of the Pi3K-Akt-mTOR and the IGF-R pathways

  2. study of the molecular consequences of diet modifications on cancer cells and their microenvironment

    Time frame: At the inclusion visit and the day of surgery

    determine the activity of the anti-tumoral immune surveillance with blood sample and tumor sample. Correlation between the cancer response and antitumoral immune with diet programm

  3. evaluation of patient's tolerability to those diet modifications, in terms of weight status

    Time frame: From the inclusion visit until the Day 45 post surgery

    Weight surveillance (in kilograms)

  4. evaluation of patient's tolerability to those diet modifications, in terms of adverse events

    Time frame: From the inclusion visit until the Day 45 post surgery

    monitoring of adverse events related to diet (with CTCAE (Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events) version 5.0)

  5. assessment of the acceptance of study participation and reasons for refusal

    Time frame: During 45 days before the surgery

    Rate of patients who agreed to participate in the study compared to the total number of patients to whom the study was proposed. Collection of reasons for refusing to participate to the study

  6. determination of the impact of diet modification on patient's quality of life

    Time frame: From the inclusion visit until the Day 45 post surgery

    Result of the EORTC QLQ-C30 questionnaire (European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer, Quality of Life Questionnaire) questionnaire

  7. evaluation of the impact of patient's beliefs about diet and cancer on the compliance to the proposed diet.

    Time frame: From the inclusion visit until the Day 45 post surgery

    Result of the questionnaire of Beliefs about diet and cancer OPINELE (Opinions concernant l'alimentation, la santé et le cancer)

  8. evaluation of the impact of the patient's anxiety and depression level on the compliance to the proposed diet

    Time frame: From the inclusion visit until the Day 45 post surgery

    Scores obtained on the HADS scale (Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale) (if score or = 9, result is no significant, if sore is between 10 and 12, result is limit, if result is > or = 13, result is significant

Study contacts

Contact information is provided by the study sponsor or research team.

Aurore Moussion

CONTACT

[email protected]

04 67 61 31 02 ext. +33

Emmanuelle Texier

CONTACT

[email protected]

04 67 61 31 02 ext. +33

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Institut du Cancer de Montpellier - Val d'Aurelle

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Registry information

Official study title

Trial Studying the Feasibility of a Diet Modification in pAtients With Luminal Early Breast Cancer Candidate for Primary Surgery

Acronym: MACS

Important dates

Study start
2021
Primary completion
2026
Study completion
2026
First posted
Jul 14, 2020
Registry last updated
Jan 16, 2026

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