Study of a Shortened Radiation Therapy Schedule in People With Breast Cancer
Fractionation Accelerated Beyond Standard Therapy for Post-Mastectomy Radiotherapy in Patients With Reconstructions (FAST-R Trial): A Prospective Non-inferiority Trial of Ultra-compressed Treatment
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Brief Summary
The purpose of this study is to see whether providing radiation on a shortened (compressed) schedule of 5 days in a row is a safe and effective approach to prevent cancer from coming back in people who have had a mastectomy.
Trial Health
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participants targeted
Target at P75+ for early_phase_1
Started Nov 2020
Longer than P75 for early_phase_1
1 active site
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Study Timeline
Key milestones and dates
First Submitted
Initial submission to the registry
November 24, 2020
CompletedStudy Start
First participant enrolled
November 24, 2020
CompletedFirst Posted
Study publicly available on registry
December 2, 2020
CompletedPrimary Completion
Last participant's last visit for primary outcome
November 1, 2026
ExpectedStudy Completion
Last participant's last visit for all outcomes
November 1, 2026
May 22, 2025
May 1, 2025
5.9 years
November 24, 2020
May 21, 2025
Conditions
Keywords
Outcome Measures
Primary Outcomes (2)
Local recurrences
Local recurrence is defined as histologic evidence of ductal carcinoma in situ or invasive breast cancer in the ipsilateral reconstructed breast or chest wall.
3 years
Regional recurrences
Regional recurrence is defined as the cytologic, histologic and/or radiographic evidence of disease in the ipsilateral internal mammary, ipsilateral supraclavicular, ipsilateral infraclavicular and/or ipsilateral axillary nodes or soft tissue of the ipsilateral axilla.
3 years
Secondary Outcomes (1)
complications
3 years
Study Arms (1)
Post-Mastectomy Radiotherapy
EXPERIMENTALTreatment will consist of PMRT delivered using external beam RT techniques to a dose of 26 Gy in 5 fractions of 5.2 Gy delivered on consecutive weekdays with an optional chest wall boost of 5.2 Gy for 1-2 fractions or an alternate boost schedule of 2.5 Gy for 1-4 fractions at the discretion of the treating physician.
Interventions
A total dose of 26 Gy in 5 fractions will be given once daily over 5 consecutive weekdays (or within 10 consecutive weekday to allow for treatment delays, interruptions, logistical problems, scheduling issues and weekends/holidays).
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if:
- Female or male patients with invasive breast cancer who have had mastectomy and have a chest wall reconstruction in progress or completed.
- Age ≥ 30 years
- Final AJCC Stage IIa - IIIa (pathologic stage T0N1a-2a, T1N1a-2a, T2N1a-2a, T3N0-2a, all M0 status). Pathological stage for all patients not receiving neoadjuvant chemotherapy. Higher of the clinical or pathological T and N stage, if receiving neoadjuvant chemotherapy. T3N0 patients, either clinically by imaging before neoadjuvant chemotherapy, or by pathological stage at the time of surgery, are eligible. Exceptions to these criteria (e.g. for T4 or N3 patients) are possible after discussion with PI.
- Histologically negative tumor margin.
- ECOG Performance Status of 0 or 1
You may not qualify if:
- Patients with distant metastasis.
- Patients who are pregnant or breastfeeding.
- Prior radiation therapy to the ipsilateral or contralateral breast or thorax.
- All patients with clinical, radiographic or pathological T4, N3 or involved internal mammary disease (N1b, N1c, and N2b) will not be eligible to enroll.
- Medical condition such as uncontrolled infection (including HIV), uncontrolled diabetes mellitus, or connective tissue diseases (lupus, systemic sclerosis, or other collagen vascular diseases) that, in the opinion of the treating physician, would make this protocol unreasonably hazardous for the patient.
- Patients with a "currently active" second malignancy other than non-melanoma skin cancers. Patients are not considered to have "currently active" malignancies if they have completed therapy and are considered by their physicians to be at \<5% risk of relapse within 3 years.
- Concomitant anti-neoplastic treatment is not allowed during protocol treatment and should be completed at least 2 weeks prior to commencement of protocol treatment, with resolution of associated acute toxicities. However endocrine therapies (tamoxifen or aromatase inhibitors), anti-HER2 therapy and bisphosphonates are permitted without restriction even during protocol treatment. Standard-of-care maintenance treatments such as pembrolizumab and capecitabine are permitted during protocol treatment. All of these treatments are delivered routinely as SOC during conventional radiotherapy.
- Unwilling or unable to participate in all required study evaluations and procedures. Unable to understand the purpose and risks of the study and to provide a signed and dated informed consent form (ICF) and authorization to use protected health information (in accordance with national and local patient privacy regulations).
Contact the study team to confirm eligibility.
Sponsors & Collaborators
Study Sites (1)
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (All Protocol Activities)
New York, New York, 10065, United States
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MeSH Terms
Interventions
Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)
Study Officials
- PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Aftif Khan, MD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Study Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Phase
- early phase 1
- Allocation
- NA
- Masking
- NONE
- Purpose
- TREATMENT
- Intervention Model
- SINGLE GROUP
- Sponsor Type
- OTHER
- Responsible Party
- SPONSOR
Study Record Dates
First Submitted
November 24, 2020
First Posted
December 2, 2020
Study Start
November 24, 2020
Primary Completion (Estimated)
November 1, 2026
Study Completion (Estimated)
November 1, 2026
Last Updated
May 22, 2025
Record last verified: 2025-05
Data Sharing
- IPD Sharing
- Will share
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center supports the international committee of medical journal editors (ICMJE) and the ethical obligation of responsible sharing of data from clinical trials. The protocol summary, a statistical summary, and informed consent form will be made available on clinicaltrials.gov when required as a condition of Federal awards, other agreements supporting the research and/or as otherwise required. Requests for deidentified individual participant data can be made beginning 12 months after publication and for up to 36 months post publication. Deidentified individual participant data reported in the manuscript will be shared under the terms of a Data Use Agreement and may only be used for approved proposals. Requests may be made to: crdatashare@mskcc.org.