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NCT Number: NCT03503799

Reaching for Evidence-baSed Chemotherapy Use in Endocrine Sensitive Breast Cancer

Systematic assessment of survival data of patients who have been tested with EndoPredict®; prospective proof that patients with low risk classification by EndoPredict® (EPclin) can safely forgo chemotherapy and be treated with endocrine therapy alone.

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Key information

Conditions

Primary Invasive Breast Cancer Breast Diseases Breast Neoplasms Estrogen Receptor Positive Tumor Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2 Negative Tumor Neoplasms Neoplasms by Site Skin Diseases Skin and Connective Tissue Diseases

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Observational

Primary location

Frauenklinik der Technischen Universität München, München, Bavaria, Germany

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About this study

The goal of the study is to receive current and comprehensive information about the diseasefree (remote metastasis free and recurrence free) interval of EndoPredict® low risk patients.

The study is organized and managed by the NOGGO e.V. (North Eastern German Society of Gynaecological Oncology e.V.) study coordination office under the existing and efficient infrastructure. All patients who receive gene expression analysis with EndoPredict® and satisfy the remaining inclusion / exclusion criteria may participate in the study. Data collection is prospective and non-interventional. The recruitment of the required patients is expected to take a maximum of 36 months .

It must be emphasized that the study is data collection only and not an interventional study. This means that the choice and implementation of the therapy as well as the treatment assessments and frequency during and after the treatment can only be determined by the Investigator.

The decision to participate in the study is independent of the patient´s therapy within the framework of a study. Patient data will be recorded at the time of inclusion and once a year thereafter. Patient follow-up will be by phone from the second year onward.

Primary objective is to show that female patients who have been tested as "low risk" by EPclin and have been treated with endocrine therapy only for at least 5 years have a 10-year DMFS rate > 90% (lower boundary of the one-sided 95% confidence interval).

Secondary objectives comprise the evaluation of DMFS (distant metastasis free survival) , DFS (disease free survival) and OS (overall survival) rates at different time points and for different groups. Assessment of the given chemotherapy regimens and the given endocrine therapy will be performed and the proportions of patients will be determined with respect to the received treatment and its duration in different groups. Furthermore, the proportion of patients in whom the tumor board recommendation follows the EndoPredict® result and the proportion of patients actually treated according to EndoPredict® result will be determined.

The association between outcome and treatment, EPclin, EP, and classical prognostic factors will be investigated in different groups of patients. The correlation and concordance between EPclin calculations derived from biopsies and surgical specimens will be assessed.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

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

Inclusion criteria

  • Informed consent
  • Tested with EndoPredict within the previous 6 months before inclusion
  • Age ≥ 18 years
  • Patients with primary invasive breast cancer, Stage I/II
  • ER-positive
  • HER2-negative
  • N0 or N1 (1-3 positive lymph nodes)
  • T1 - T3

Exclusion criteria

  • Inflammatory breast cancer
  • Bilateral breast cancer
  • Breast cancer in the last 10 years
  • Other invasive malignancies in the last 5 years

Treatment and study plan

observation

Other

Visit 1 Informed consent Medical history Demographics Result of EndoPredict® Test Status of menopause Disease status Tumor board decision Planned anti-tumor-therapy

Visit 2, 1 year after inclusion This visit will be documented at the study site Status of menopause Disease status Anti-tumor therapy Survival

Following visits For these visits, patients will be asked directly through the Center for Clinical Trials of the Philipps-University Marburg (KKS Marburg) via phone.

Status of Menopause Disease status Anti-tumor therapy Survival

Treatment after end of the study The patient will be treated during and after end of study by physician's choice.

Primary outcomes

  1. Distant metastasis free survival

    Time frame: 10 years

    To show that female patients who have been tested as "low risk" by EndoPredict® (EPclin) and have been treated with endocrine therapy only for at least 5 years have a 10-year distant metastasis-free survival (DMFS) > 90 % (lower boundary of the one-sided 95 % confidence interval)

Secondary outcomes

  1. DMFS "low risk"

    Time frame: 3, 5 and 10 years

    Assessment of DMFS of patients with EPclin "low risk" (or EP "low risk" [EP score <5] if EPclin cannot be calculated after surgery in the neoadjuvant setting) (in all patients, in the relevant target group and separately in men and women and in pre- and postmenopausal women with regard to treatment).

  2. DFS "low risk"

    Time frame: 3, 5 and 10 years

    Assessment of DFS of patients with EPclin "low risk" (or EP "low risk" [EP score <5] if EPclin cannot be calculated after surgery in the neoadjuvant setting) (in all patients, in the relevant target group and separately in men and women and in pre- and postmenopausal women with regard to treatment).

  3. OS "low risk"

    Time frame: 3, 5 and 10 years

    Assessment of OS of patients with EPclin "low risk" (or EP "low risk" [EP score <5] if EPclin cannot be calculated after surgery in the neoadjuvant setting) (in all patients, in the relevant target group and separately in men and women and in pre- and postmenopausal women with regard to treatment).

  4. DMFS "high risk"

    Time frame: 3, 5 and 10 years

    Assessment of DMFS of patients with EPclin "high risk" in all patients and separated in men and women as well as pre- and postmenopausal women with regard to treatment).

  5. DFS "high risk"

    Time frame: 3, 5 and 10 years

    Assessment of DFS of patients with EPclin "high risk" in all patients and separated in men and women as well as pre- and postmenopausal women with regard to treatment).

  6. OS "high risk"

    Time frame: 3, 5 and 10 years

    Assessment of OS of patients with EPclin "high risk" in all patients and separated in men and women as well as pre- and postmenopausal women with regard to treatment).

  7. DMFS "high risk + low risk"

    Time frame: 3, 5 and 10 years

    DMFS for patients who have / have not been treated according to EPclin/ EP result (all patients and subgroup analyses as specified in secondary objectives 1 and 2).

  8. DFS "high risk + low risk"

    Time frame: 3, 5 and 10 years

    DFS for patients who have / have not been treated according to EPclin/ EP result (all patients and subgroup analyses as specified in secondary objectives 1 and 2).

  9. OS "high risk + low risk"

    Time frame: 3, 5 and 10 years

    OS for patients who have / have not been treated according to EPclin/ EP result (all patients and subgroup analyses as specified in secondary objectives 1 and 2).

  10. Portion of patients tumor board follows the EndoPredict® result

    Time frame: 1 year

    Assessment of the proportion of patients in whom the tumor board follows the EndoPredict® result in regard to treatment recommendation (in all patients and separately for men and women).

  11. Portion of patient treated according EndoPredict® result

    Time frame: 1 year

    Assessment of the proportion of patients who were actually treated according to the EndoPredict® result (in all patients and separately for men and women).

  12. Prognostic Performance of classical prognostic factors compared to EndoPredict®

    Time frame: 3, 5 and 10 years

    Assessment of the classical prognostic factors tumor size, nodal status, grading, quantitative estrogen receptor, quantitative progesterone receptor and quantitative Ki67 and evaluation of their prognostic performance compared to EPclin and EP in univariate and multivariate analyses of DMFS, DFS, OS (in all patients, separately for men and women, only in patients who have been treated according to the EndoPredict® result).

  13. DMFS "low risk vs. high risk"

    Time frame: 3, 5 and 10 years

    Assessment of DMFS of patients with low risk vs. high risk as defined by national (German S3) and international (St. Gallen Consensus) guidelines based on IHC (immunohistochemistry)-classification.

  14. DFS "low risk vs. high risk"

    Time frame: 3, 5 and 10 years

    Assessment of DFS of patients with low risk vs. high risk as defined by national (German S3) and international (St. Gallen Consensus) guidelines based on IHC-classification.

  15. OS "low risk vs. high risk"

    Time frame: 3, 5 and 10 years

    Assessment of OS of patients with low risk vs. high risk as defined by national (German S3) and international (St. Gallen Consensus) guidelines based on IHC-classification.

  16. DMFS of patient proportion of EPclin low and high risk patients in Ki67 low, intermediate and high tumors

    Time frame: 3, 5 and 10 years

    Assessment of proportion of EPclin low and high risk patients in Ki67 low, intermediate and high tumors, respectively, and stratified analysis of DMFS of patients with ki67-values low (≤ 10%)/ intermediate (11-24%)/ high (≥ 25%) and EPclin low risk vs high risk.

  17. DFS of patient proportion of EPclin low and high risk patients in Ki67 low, intermediate and high tumors

    Time frame: 3, 5 and 10 years

    Assessment of proportion of EPclin low and high risk patients in Ki67 low, intermediate and high tumors, respectively, and stratified analysis of DFS of patients with ki67-values low (≤ 10%)/ intermediate (11-24%)/ high (≥ 25%) and EPclin low risk vs high risk.

  18. OS of patient proportion of EPclin low and high risk patients in Ki67 low, intermediate and high tumors

    Time frame: 3, 5 and 10 years

    Assessment of proportion of EPclin low and high risk patients in Ki67 low, intermediate and high tumors, respectively, and stratified analysis of OS of patients with ki67-values low (≤ 10%)/ intermediate (11-24%)/ high (≥ 25%) and EPclin low risk vs high risk.

  19. DMFS "low risk vs. high risk" who have /have not been treated according to the S3 and St. Gallen guidelines

    Time frame: 3, 5 and 10 years

    Assessment of DMFS after 3, 5 and 10 years of patients with low risk vs. high risk as defined by national (German S3) and international (St. Gallen Consensus) guidelines based on IHC-classification.

  20. DFS "low risk vs. high risk" who have /have not been treated according to the S3 and St. Gallen guidelines

    Time frame: 3, 5 and 10 years

    Assessment of DFS of patients with low risk vs. high risk as defined by national (German S3) and international (St. Gallen Consensus) guidelines based on IHC-classification.

  21. OS "low risk vs. high risk" who have /have not been treated according to the S3 and St. Gallen guidelines

    Time frame: 3, 5 and 10 years

    Assessment of OS of patients with low risk vs. high risk as defined by national (German S3) and international (St. Gallen Consensus) guidelines based on IHC-classification.

  22. Chemotherapy regimens

    Time frame: 1 year

    Description of the given chemotherapy regimens (in all patients and separately for men and women).

  23. Given endocrine therapy

    Time frame: 10 years

    Description of the given endocrine therapy (in all patients and separately for men and women).

  24. Duration of endocrine therapy

    Time frame: 10 years

    Duration of the endocrine therapy (in all patients and separately for men and women).

  25. Proportion of patients with prolonged endocrine therapy

    Time frame: 10 years

    Proportion of patients with EPclin "low risk" and "high risk" respectively who received an extended (> 5 years) endocrine therapy in all patients and separately for men and women).

  26. DMFS for patients with 5 years of endocrine therapy vs. extended endocrine therapy

    Time frame: 10 years

    Assessment of DMFS according to EPclin / EP risk class for patients who have received an endocrine therapy for 5 years vs. patients who received an extended endocrine therapy (> 5 years).

  27. DFS for patients with 5 years of endocrine therapy vs. extended endocrine therapy

    Time frame: 10 years

    Assessment of DFS according to EPclin / EP risk class for patients who have received an endocrine therapy for 5 years vs. patients who received an extended endocrine therapy (> 5 years).

  28. OS for patients with 5 years of endocrine therapy vs. extended endocrine therapy

    Time frame: 10 years

    Assessment of OS according to EPclin / EP risk class for patients who have received an endocrine therapy for 5 years vs. patients who received an extended endocrine therapy (> 5 years).

  29. Correlation ( pT- and pN data vs. ciT and ciN-data)

    Time frame: 1 year

    Assessment of the correlation between EPclin, that has been calculated with pT- (pathological tumor size) and pN (pathological nodal status) data and the EPclin based on ciT (clinical/ imaging tumor size) and ciN (clinical/imaging nodal status)-data (in all patients and separately for men and women).

  30. Concordance ( pT- and pN data vs. ciT and ciN-data)

    Time frame: 1 year

    Assessment of the concordance between EPclin, that has been calculated with pT- and pN data and the EPclin based on ciT and ciN-data (in all patients and separately for men and women).

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

North Eastern German Society of Gynaecological Oncology

Other

Collaborators

  • Philipps University Marburg

Registry information

Official study title

Prospective Assessment of Disease Progression in Primary Breast Cancer Patients Undergoing EndoPredict® Gene Expression Testing - a Care Research Study

Acronym: RESCUE

Important dates

Study start
2018
Primary completion
2032
Study completion
2032
First posted
Apr 20, 2018
Registry last updated
Apr 13, 2026

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