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Prospective Construction and Validation of a Prognostic Score to Identify Among Patients With Metastatic Breast Cancer Those Who Benefit From a Third Line Chemotherapy in Terms of Overall Survival

Prospective Construction and Validation of a Prognostic Score to Identify Among Patients With Metastatic Breast Cancer Those Who Benefit From a Third Line Chemotherapy in Terms of Overall Survival

Status
Completed
Phases
Phase 4
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT01574170
Acronym
METAL3
Enrollment
267
Registered
2012-04-10
Start date
2012-06-18
Completion date
2023-05-31
Last updated
2026-04-17

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Metastatic Breast Cancer Starting a Third Line Chemotherapy

Keywords

Breast cancer,, Third line metastatic, Chemotherapy,, Overall survival,, Quality of life.

Brief summary

This is a biomedical study of interventional type. The trial will include 270 patients (180 patients in the first cohort and 90 patients in a second cohort) over a period of 3 years + 2 years of follow up. This prospective study will be conduct in patients who will receive a third line chemotherapy for metastatic breast cancer. The main objective of the study (first cohort) is to identify patients who benefit from a third line treatment in terms of overall survival with a score established from clinical, histological, but also biological "classic" and "innovative" (account of circulating tumor cells) criteria, all of these criteria must be measurable before the introduction of the 3rd line. This score will then be validated on the 2nd cohort. There will be no interruption of inclusions between first and second cohort of patients

Interventions

OTHERConstruction of a prognostic score (non-drug intervention types)

Record of clinical, histological and biological data and questionnaires data in patients starting a third line metastatic until progression

Sponsors

Institut Claudius Regaud
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
FEMALE
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

1. Women of more than 18 years old 2. WHO 0-4 3. Metastatic breast cancer 4. Progression after two lines of chemotherapy with treatment decision by investigator to start a third-line chemotherapy 5. Evaluable disease 6. Histology: breast carcinoma whatever the histological type, grade, hormone receptor expression and HER-2 7. Patient able to complete the EORTC PAL 15 Questionnaire 8. Patient member in a national insurance scheme 9. Informed consent obtained and signed by the patient

Exclusion criteria

1. History of other (s) cancer (s) potentially metastatic (s) 2. Woman participating in a third line chemotherapy clinical trial 3. Pregnant women or nursing mothers can not participate in the study 4. Patient under legal guardianship 5. Patient unable to undergo medical test for various reasons including social or psychological reasons.

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
Overall survival defined as the time from patient inclusion to the date of death or date of last follow-up news (censured data)11 years

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
The time to progression, defined as the time from patient inclusion to the date of the first documented tumor progression11 years
Quality of life using the EORTC QLQ-C15-PAL Questionnaire11 years
Patient satisfaction regarding therapeutic decisions at inclusion using a specific questionnaire developed by Llewellyn-Thomas11 years
Oncologists satisfaction regarding the management and communication with the patient will be studied at baseline and at the time or progression using the Likert ordinal scale7 years
Regret or not of the patient to have followed a 3rd line of chemotherapy will be recorded at the end of the treatment using the "Decision regret scale" Questionnaire, established by A. O'Connor11 years
Safety evaluated according to the classification of NCI CTCAE (Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events) V4.011 years

Countries

France

Contacts

PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATORFlorence MD DALENC

Institut Claudius Regaud

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Apr 18, 2026