Approximately 3.5% to 6% of newly diagnosed breast cancer patients are stage IV metastatic. De novo metastatic breast cancer accounts for 20% to 25% of these cases. Despite a decrease in mortality in Europe and North America due to early detection and access to treatment, breast cancer remains the 2ⁿᵈ leading cause of cancer deaths in developed countries after lung cancer and the world's leading cause. In the ESME French national retrospective cohort (NCT03275311), the newly diagnosed estrogen receptor (ER)-positive and HER2-negative (luminal) metastatic patients had a 59.1 months overall survival (OS) for pre-menopausal women and 44.7 months for postmenopausal women. In the same cohort, the median OS was 47.4 months for de novo metastatic patients with hormone receptor (HR)-positive / HER2-negative breast cancer. The most important current treatment for metastatic breast cancer remains systemic therapy. Surgery and radiation are mainly used to treat symptoms. However, more than 15 retrospective studies have assessed the impact of locoregional treatment on relapse and OS. These studies suggested an improvement of the OS in patients with de novo metastatic breast cancer thanks to the addition of locoregional treatment to systemic therapy. Recent data from the ESME cohort suggest that patients with de novo luminal or HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer may benefit from local treatment of the primary tumor. Several prospective trials have attempted to demonstrate the benefit of locoregional treatment with mixed results. This can be explained by a limited power of statistical analysis, on the recruitment of patients with breast cancer of all types, and on a limited access to effective systemic therapies in some cases and all before the area of anti CD4/6 which is the current standard treatment in patients with HR-positive / HER2-negative luminal metastatic disease. However, guidelines indicate that a "multimodal approach, including curative locoregional treatments, should be considered". As a result, many clinicians offer locoregional treatment of the primary tumor, especially if there is a good response to the first line of systematic treatment. Taken together, these data underscore the need for an evaluation of the value of combined therapy - endocrine therapy - CDK4/6 inhibitor and locoregional treatment - in this population of patients with newly diagnosed HR-positive / HER2-negative breast cancer.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
200
The included patients will first receive the following systemic treatment according standard of care: * Non-steroidal aromatase inhibitor (letrozole) * Palbociclib * Monthly Luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH) analogue for non-menopausal patients only. Surgical bilateral oophorectomy is an acceptable option.
After normally 6 courses of systemic treatment initiation, the loco-regional treatment of the primary tumour will be performed: surgery (conservative or mastectomy) with or without radiotherapy, or radiotherapy
Institut de Cancérologie de l'Ouest-Site Paul Papin
Angers, France
Institut Sainte Catherine
Avignon, France
Centre François Baclesse
Caen, France
Hôpital privé sainte Marie
Chalon-sur-Saône, France
CH Cholet
Cholet, France
Centre Jean Perrin
Clermont-Ferrand, France
Centre George François Leclerc
Dijon, France
Centre Léon Bérard
Lyon, France
Hôpital St Joseph
Marseille, France
Institut Paoli Calmettes
Marseille, France
...and 16 more locations
Overall survival rate in patients receiving the letrozole plus palbociclib combination plus locoregional treatment
Overall survival
Time frame: 24 months
Clinical response rate on both primary tumour and metastasis disease
Follow-up of the disease status by imaging exams until surgery
Time frame: 24 months
Pathological response rate in primary tumour
Pathological response (tumour size, cellularity... ) evaluated at the surgery or at the biopsy
Time frame: 26 weeks
Conversion rate of breast surgery (conservative-radical)
Rate of modification of indication of mastectomy
Time frame: 26 weeks
Locoregional control rate
Rate of locoregional recurrence after surgery and/or radiotherapy
Time frame: 60 months
Progression-free survival (PFS)
Follow-up of the disease status by imaging exams
Time frame: 60 months
Overall survival
Time frame: 60 months
Incidence of combined therapies in terms of adverse events
Will be evaluated using the National Cancer Institute - common terminology criteria for adverse events (NCI-CTCAE) v5.0
Time frame: 60 months
Registration of post letrozole-CDKi therapies
Records of cancer treatments prescribed to patients after disease progression
Time frame: 60 months
Evolution of quality of life during treatment
self-administered questionnaire of quality of life EORTC QLQ-C30 taking into account the patient's activity and his/her physical and psychological state
Time frame: 60 months
Evolution of quality of life during treatment
self-administered questionnaire of quality of life EORTC QLQ-BR23, complementary module to QLQ C30 questionnaire, is more specifically interested in patients with se cancer and the impact of treatment on their lives
Time frame: 60 months
Evolution of quality of life during treatment
self-administered questionnaire of quality of life Euroquol EQ-5D-5L consists of a descriptive system and a visual scale
Time frame: 60 months
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