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TAO – Towards optimal (neo)adjuvant systemic therapy of stage III triple-negative breast cancer

TAO – Towards optimal (neo)adjuvant systemic therapy of stage III triple-negative breast cancer - TAO study

Status
Recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Observational
Source
NL-OMON
Registry ID
NL-OMON57736
Enrollment
100
Registered
2025-03-13
Start date
2025-11-06
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2026-04-27

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

Conditions

Breast cancer, Triple negative tumor, stage III, Quality of Life Breast cancer, Triple negative tumor, stage III, Quality of Life

Interventions

All participating patients will be asked to answer the HRQoL questionnaire (EORTCQLQ-C30, -BR23, -OH15), QoL questionnaire (EQ-5D-5L) and a symptom related questionnaire (FACT-ES) using the ‘SYMPRO 2.

Sponsors

Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (AVL)
Lead Sponsor

Eligibility

Age
18 Years to 99 Years

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Patients aged 18 years or older Histologically confirmed adenocarcinoma of the breast Assumed clinical or pathological stage III (TNM) breast cancerBreast tumor must be:HER2-negative: i.e. either score 0 or 1 at immunohistochemistry or score 2 at immunohistochemistry and negative at in situ hybridization (ISH, CISH or FISH) Hormone receptor negative i.e. an estrogen receptor (ER) of <10% and progesterone receptor (PR) of <10%.;Patients are planned to receive the complete standard of care in the Netherlands; neo-adjuvant chemotherapy according to local practise (preferably cohering with Dutch guideline recommended dose dense doxorubicin-cyclophosphamide (ddAC) plus carboplatin/paclitaxel (CbP)) followed by surgery and adjuvant radiotherapy. In case of no pathological complete response (no-pCR) adjuvant treatment with capecitabine is indicated for administration. Standard of care may change during the course of the study; e.g. patients harboring a gBRCA1/2m may receive adjuvant olaparib in case of no-pCR and pembrolizumab may be added to (neo-)adjuvant chemotherapy (see table 1 additional potential changes).Participating patients must be able to use a mobile phone, tablet, laptop and/or computer and understand the Dutch language. 

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: evidence of distant metastases. Staging examinations should have been performed according to Dutch national guidelines. Patients who are only treated systemically in the adjuvant settingParticipation in another clinical study with a treatment intervention that is not yet indicated for this study population during the course of this study.Patients who are incapacitated

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
The primary objective is to determine the HRQoL of patients with stage III TNBC treated with current standard (neo)adjuvant systemic therapy. Secondary objectives include 1) determining toxicity (including the effect on cognitive functioning and oral health quality related QoL), resource use, costs and outcomes of standard (neo)adjuvant systemic therapy for patients with stage III TNBC, 2) the course of dynamic ctDNA during standard of care (neo)adjuvant systemic therapy and its relation with treatment outcome in these patients and 3) comparing HRQoL outcomes determined in this study to the HRQoL results determined in the two experimental treatment strategies of the SUBITO study.

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
Secondary objectives include 1) determining toxicity (including cognitive functioning and oral health related QoL), resource use, costs and outcomes of standard of care (neo)adjuvant systemic therapy for patients with stage III TNBC, 2) the course of dynamic ctDNA during standard of care (neo)adjuvant systemic therapy and its relation with treatment outcome and 3) comparing the HRQoL outcomes for patients with stage III TNBC determined in this study to the HRQoL determined in the two experimental treatment strategies of the SUBITO study. 

Countries

Netherlands

Contacts

Public ContactP. Debets

Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (AVL)

tao@nki.nl0205129111

Outcome results

None listed

Source: NL-OMON (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: May 1, 2026