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NCT Number: NCT06964906

Neoadjuvant High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) Combined With Toripalimab and Chemotherapy for ER-Positive /HER2-Negative Breast Cancer

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) combined with toripalimab and chemotherapy as neoadjuvant therapy for ER+/HER2- breast cancer.

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Key information

Age range

18 year–75 year

Sex eligibility

Female

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Phase 2

Primary location

2nd Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University

Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310000, China

Location status: Recruiting

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About this study

Study participants will receive the following treatments: HIFU therapy followed by 8 cycles of neoadjuvant immunotherapy and chemotherapy. Each cycle lasts 21 days. Subsequently, all participants will undergo surgery within 6 weeks after completion of neoadjuvant therapy.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

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

Inclusion criteria

  • Female patients aged 18-75 years.
  • Invasive breast cancer without distant metastasis, including either T1c-T4 (≥ 2 cm), cN0-cN3.
  • Histopathologically confirmed ER-positive/HER2-negative, PR < 20% or Ki67 ≥ 20%, Grade 3 breast cancer.
  • Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0-1.

Exclusion criteria

  • Female patients during pregnancy or lactation.
  • Diagnosis of bilateral breast cancer, occult breast cancer, or distant metastasis confirmed by pathology.
  • Has an active autoimmune disease that has received systemic treatment in the last 2 years.
  • Has a known history of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis B, or known active hepatitis C virus infection.
  • Has received prior therapy with an anti-PD-1, anti-PD-L1, or anti-PD-L2 agent.
  • Has a known history of invasive malignancy that required systemic treatment in the last 5 years.
  • Uncontrolled concomitant diseases include severe infection, liver disease, cardiovascular disease, kidney disease, respiratory disease, diabetes, and others requiring systemic treatment.

Treatment and study plan

HIFU

Procedure

HIFU therapy is administered to the targeted breast lesion site.

Toripalimab

Drug

240 mg, IV infusion, Q3W

nab-Paclitaxel (nab-P)

Drug

125 mg/m2, IV infusion, QW

Epirubicin (E)

Drug

90 mg/m2, IV infusion, Q3W

Cyclophosphamide (C)

Drug

600 mg/m2, IV infusion, Q3W

Primary outcomes

  1. Total Pathological Complete Response (tpCR) Rate: ypT0/Tis, ypN0

    Time frame: Up to approximately 30 weeks

    The tpCR rate is defined as the proportion of participants with no residual invasive cancer cells in both the breast primary tumor site (residual in situ cancer cells are permitted) and all sampled axillary lymph nodes.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Breast Pathological Complete Response (bpCR) Rate: ypT0/Tis

    Time frame: Up to approximately 30 weeks

    The bpCR rate is defined as the proportion of participants with no residual invasive cancer cells in the breast primary tumor site (residual in situ cancer cells are permitted).

  2. Objective Response Rate (ORR)

    Time frame: Up to approximately 30 weeks

    ORR is defined as the proportion of participants with a complete or partial response.

  3. Event-Free Survival (EFS)

    Time frame: Approximately five years

    EFS is defined as the time from randomization to any of the following events: precludes surgery, local or distant recurrence, second primary malignancy, or death due to any cause.

  4. Adverse Event (AE)

    Time frame: Approximately three years

    An AE is defined as any untoward medical occurrence in a study participant administered a medicinal product, temporally associated with study intervention, without presumption of causality.

Study contacts

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

Shijie Wu

CONTACT

[email protected]

Yiding Chen

CONTACT

[email protected]

+86 0571 87783759

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University

Other

Registry information

Official study title

A Prospective, Single-arm Study of High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) Combined With Toripalimab and Chemotherapy as Neoadjuvant Therapy for Estrogen Receptor-Positive/Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2-Negative (ER+/HER2-) Breast Cancer (NeoHunter)

Acronym: NeoHunter

Important dates

Study start
2025
Primary completion
2027
Study completion
2030
First posted
May 11, 2025
Registry last updated
Jul 14, 2026

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