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NCT04320979Active, not recruitingPhase 3

Postmastecomy Internal Mammary Nodal Irradiation for High-risk Breast Cancer Patients

Postmastectomy Prophylactic Internal Mammary Nodal Irradiation for High-risk Patients With Non-metastatic Breast Cancer

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 13 Jan 2026

Brief summary (registry, in English)

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of internal mammary nodal irradiation on disease-free survival in high-risk breast cancer patients treated with mastectomy or breast-conserving surgery.

Status (registry)
Active, not recruiting
Phase (registry)
Phase 3
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
2400 (actual)
First submitted
19 Mar 2020
Start date
8 May 2020
Primary completion date
1 Nov 2025
Lead sponsor
Cancer Institute and Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences
NCT number
NCT04320979

What you commit to

  • Study type: Interventional · Phase 3
  • Participants enrolled: 2400
  • From 8 May 2020 to the primary completion date, 1 Nov 2025
  • 1 site in 1 country
  • Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them

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Who cannot take part

Copied verbatim from ClinicalTrials.gov and grouped by topic. Only the trial team decides who can take part.

Prior treatment

  • Had received internal mammary node dissection
  • No imaging assessment of the internal mammary nodal before system therapy
  • Had simultaneous or previous secondary malignancies, except for non-malignant melanoma skin cancer, papillary thyroid / follicular carcinoma, cervical carcinoma in situ, contralateral non-invasive breast cancer

Other illness

  • Simultaneous bilateral breast cancer
  • Severe cardiac insufficiency; myocardial infarction or uncorrected unstable arrhythmia or uncorrected unstable angina in the last 3 months; pericardial disease
  • Had history of chest wall or supraclavicular radiotherapy

Other

  • Sentinel lymph node biopsy only without axillary dissection
  • One-stage breast reconstruction

Who the study is looking for

  • Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group Performance Status Scale 0-2
  • Histologically confirmed invasive breast cancer
  • Underwent total mastectomy/breast-conserving surgery and axillary dissection(10 or more axillary lymph nodes detected) and negative margins
  • Patients who had ≥4 positive axillary lymph nodes; or 1-3positive axillary lymph nodes and T3-4; or 1-3positive axillary lymph nodes and T1-2, and score≥3 based on the following high risk factors: age≤40 years(score 1), primary tumor in the inner quadrant (score 1), 2-3 positive axillary lymph nodes (score 1), positive vascular invasion (score 1), re-staged based on eighth Cancer Staging System staging system(IB-IIA score 1, IIB-IIIA score 2); or ypN+ after neoadjuvant chemotherapy
  • No supraclavicular or internal mammary nodes metastases based on images before system therapy
  • No distant metastases
  • Could tolerate radiotherapy
  • Treated with chemotherapy (anthracycline and/or taxane-based combined chemotherapy, ≥6 cycles)
  • Anticipated to receive endocrine therapy for 5 years if indicated
  • Anticipated to receive anti-HER2 therapy for 1 years if indicated
  • LVEF≥50% based on echocardiogram
  • Willing to follow up
  • Written,informed consent

Age in the registry: 18 years to 70 years · Sex: Female · Does not accept healthy volunteers

Full criteria on ClinicalTrials.gov

Sites (1)

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SiteCityCountrySite status
Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences
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BeijingChinaUnknown status

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