Prognostic Study of Sentinel Lymph Node and Bone Marrow Metastases in Women With Stage I or Stage IIA Breast Cancer
Breast Cancer

About this trial
This is an interventional diagnostic trial for Breast Cancer focused on measuring stage IA breast cancer, stage IB breast cancer, stage II breast cancer
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria: Patient must be female. Patient's clinical stage must be I or II (T1 or T2 N0 M0) and the tumor must be amenable to segmental mastectomy (lumpectomy). Patient must have a tissue diagnosis of invasive breast carcinoma. Note: A patient can be registered to this study if they have a cytologic diagnosis suggestive of carcinoma from a fine needle aspiration (FNA) of a palpable or non-palpable breast lesion and the investigator believes the breast lesion is clinically suspicious for invasive breast carcinoma. The date of the patient's first tissue diagnosis of invasive breast carcinoma or cytologic diagnosis of breast carcinoma must be no more than 60 days prior to SLND. The patient who had segmental mastectomy (lumpectomy) performed previously, and is now referred to the local investigator for SLND, is eligible if the lumpectomy was less than or equal to 60 days prior to the SLND. Copies of the operative and pathology reports must be submitted as a part of the registration process. Patient must have ECOG/Zubrod status of ≤2, as documented in patient's medical record. Patient must be available for follow-up. The patient with a history of a previous malignancy is eligible for this study as long as the patient meets the following criteria for a cancer survivor. A cancer survivor is eligible provided that the following criteria are met: The patient has undergone potentially curative therapy for all prior malignancies. There has been no evidence of any prior malignancies for at least five years with no evidence of recurrence (except for effectively treated basal cell or squamous carcinoma of the skin, carcinoma in-situ of the cervix that has been effectively treated by surgery alone, or lobular carcinoma in-situ of the ipsilateral or contralateral breast treated by surgery alone), and The patient is deemed by their treating physician to be at low risk for recurrence from prior malignancies. Signed and dated informed consent is obtained prior to patient registration. Patients of childbearing potential must have a negative serum or urine pregnancy test within 14 days of beginning study interventions. Patient must be able to physically undergo bilateral anterior iliac crest bone marrow aspiration. Exclusion Criteria: Patient is lactating (breastfeeding). Patient has been previously treated with chemotherapy, estrogen receptor antagonists (i.e. Tamoxifen) or selective estrogen receptor modulators (SERMs, i.e. Raloxifene) for this invasive breast cancer. Patient has a previously placed pre-pectoral breast implant. NOTE: A subpectoral implant is allowed. Patient is considered a poor surgical risk due to a non-malignant systemic disease (cardiovascular, renal, etc.), which would preclude the treatment options. Patient has concurrent bilateral invasive breast malignancies. Patient is not able to undergo and does not have access to radiation therapy as describedin Adjuvant Radiation Therapy in the Interventions section of the protocol. Patients with active connective tissue disorders and those that live too far from a radiation treatment center, for example, would not be eligible. Patient has clinically and radiologically identified multi-centric disease that is not amenable to a single lumpectomy. Patient has had previous ipsilateral axillary surgery such as excisional biopsy of lymph node(s), treatment of hidradenitis.
Sites / Locations
- University of Alabama at Birmingham Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Mobile Infirmary Medical Center
- Providence Hospital - Mobile AL
- Mayo Clinic Scottsdale
- Washington Regional Medical Center
- St. Vincent Doctors Doctors Hospital
- Baptist Health Medical Center
- Kaiser Permanente Medical Center - Los Angeles
- Summit Medical Center
- St. Joseph Hospital - Orange
- Huntington Memorial Hospital
- University of California Davis Cancer Center
- Donald N. Sharp Memorial Community Hospital
- UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center
- John Wayne Cancer Institute
- Memorial Hospital Cancer Center
- University of Colorado Cancer Center
- University of Connecticut Health Center
- CCOP - Christiana Care Health Services
- Lombardi Cancer Center
- Morton Plant Mease Health Care
- Lakeland Regional Medical Center
- Watson Clinic
- Bayfront Medical Center
- Martin Memorial Cancer Medical Center
- Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare
- H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute
- DeKalb Medical Center, Inc.
- St. Francis Medical Center
- Kaiser Permanente Medical Center
- St. Luke's Regional Medical Center
- St. Elizabeth's Hospital
- Belleville Memorial Hospital
- Northwestern University Medical Center
- CCOP - Evanston
- Evanston Northwestern Health Care
- Little Company of Mary Hospital - Evergreen Park
- Loyola University Medical Center
- Saint Anthony Memorial Health Center - Michigan City Campus
- University of Kansas Medical Center
- Central Baptist Hospital
- Norton Healthcare System
- James Graham Brown Cancer Center
- Woman's Hospital
- Baton Rouge General Medical Center
- Anne Arundel Medical Center
- Lahey Clinic - Burlington
- Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute
- Henry Ford Hospital
- McLaren Regional Cancer Center
- Genesys Regional Medical Center
- Spectrum Health - Butterworth Campus
- Henry Ford Medical Center - West Bloomfield
- Park Nicollet Clinic
- Keesler Medical Center - Keesler AFB
- Singing River Hospital
- Columbia Regional Hospital
- Ellis Fischel Cancer Center - Columbia
- University of Missouri-Columbia Hospital and Clinics
- St. Louis University Health Sciences Center
- Barnes-Jewish Hospital
- Lester E. Cox Medical Centers
- Norris Cotton Cancer Center
- Fox Chase Virtua Health Cancer Program at Virtua Memorial Hospital
- Lutheran Medical Center
- Roswell Park Cancer Institute
- Kingston Hospital
- Benedictine Hospital
- St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center - Roosevelt Division
- New York Presbyterian Hospital - Cornell Campus
- Highland Hospital of Rochester
- University of Rochester Medical Center
- Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, UNC
- Carolinas Medical Center
- Durham Regional Hospital
- Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Cape Fear Valley Health System
- Tri-Health Good Samaritan Hospital
- Ireland Cancer Center
- Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital - Ohio State University
- Toledo Hospital
- St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center
- Sacred Heart Hospital
- Fox Chase Cancer Center
- Mercy Hospital of Pittsburgh
- York Cancer Center
- Women and Infants Hospital of Rhode Island
- Kent County Memorial Hospital
- Sarah Cannon-Minnie Pearl Cancer Center
- Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center
- Baptist Hospital
- Texas Cancer Center at Brackenridge Hospital
- Zale Lipshy University Hospital
- Simmons Cancer Center - Dallas
- St. Paul University Hospital
- Baylor University Medical Center
- University of Texas Medical Branch
- University of Texas - MD Anderson Cancer Center
- Ben Taub General Hospital
- Methodist Hospital
- Joe Arrington Cancer Research and Treatment Center
- Huntsman Cancer Institute
- Latter Day Saints Hospital
- Cancer Center at the University of Virginia
- Carilion New River Valley Medical Center
- Inova Fairfax Hospital
- Carilion Health System - Cancer Center of Western Virginia
- Columbia Lewis-Gale Medical Center
- University of Washington Medical Center
- University of Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Aurora Sinai Medical Center
- St. Luke's Medical Center
- Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital
- Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute
- Cork University Hospital
- St. Vincent's University Hospital
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Experimental
Surgery + radiotherapy + adjuvant therapy
Patients undergo bilateral anterior iliac crest bone marrow aspiration to test for presence of micrometastases. Patients then undergo breast-conserving therapy comprising segmental mastectomy and sentinel lymph node dissection (SLND) with planned postoperative whole-breast radiotherapy and systemic adjuvant therapy. The SLND comprises ipsilateral axillary sentinel node identification and histopathology. Patients with no sentinel node identified intraoperatively and patients with sentinel node metastasis identified by hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) who choose not to be registered to ACOSOG-Z0011 undergo axillary lymph node dissection involving removal of at least level I and II nodes. All patients undergo whole-breast radiotherapy (excluding a supraclavicular field) 5 days a week for a maximum of 8 weeks. Patients are followed at 30 days; at 6, 12, 18, 24, 30, and 36 months; and then annually until 10 years after surgery.