Randomized Study of Combination Chemotherapy With or Without Focused Microwave Thermotherapy Before Surgery in Treating Women With Large Breast Cancer Tumors (Medifocus301)
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01204801 |
Recruitment Status : Unknown
Verified September 2015 by Medifocus, Inc..
Recruitment status was: Recruiting
First Posted : September 17, 2010
Last Update Posted : September 24, 2015
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Condition or disease | Intervention/treatment | Phase |
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Breast Cancer | Device: Focused Microwave Thermotherapy Drug: Chemotherapy (control) | Phase 3 |

Study Type : | Interventional (Clinical Trial) |
Estimated Enrollment : | 238 participants |
Allocation: | Randomized |
Intervention Model: | Parallel Assignment |
Masking: | None (Open Label) |
Primary Purpose: | Treatment |
Official Title: | Randomized Pivotal Trial to Assess the Safety and Efficacy of Preoperative Focused Microwave Thermotherapy Plus Preoperative Chemotherapy Versus Preoperative Chemotherapy Alone for Cytoreduction of Large Breast Cancer in Female Patients With Intact Breast |
Study Start Date : | November 2010 |
Estimated Primary Completion Date : | December 2016 |
Estimated Study Completion Date : | December 2016 |

Arm | Intervention/treatment |
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Experimental: Thermochemotherapy
Preoperative Anthracycline Doxorubicin 60mg/m2 (or Epirubicin 100 mg/m2) + Standard of Care chemotherapy and drugs + Thermotherapy. Thermotherapy at first 3 chemotherapy treatments for Anthracycline chemotherapy nominally every 21±7 days plus Standard of Care chemotherapy.
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Device: Focused Microwave Thermotherapy
Anthracycline Doxorubicin 60mg/m2 (or Epirubicin 100 mg/m2) + Standard of Care chemotherapy and drugs + Thermotherapy. Thermotherapy at first 3 chemotherapy treatments for Anthracycline chemotherapy nominally every 21±7 days plus Standard of Care chemotherapy. (A targeted tumor temperature of 44ºC (plus or minus 1.5ºC) and a targeted thermal dose of 80 equivalent treatment minutes (plus or minus 20 treatment minutes)). In the event that the targeted minimum cumulative thermal dose of 180 equivalent treatment minutes is not achieved in the first three treatments, an optional fourth thermotherapy treatment may be administered in combination with the fourth course of Anthracycline and standard of care chemotherapy. Standard of care (including breast imaging, drugs, and radiation) will be provided to all eligible subjects during and following the above study treatments.
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Active Comparator: Chemotherapy (control)
Preoperative Anthracycline Doxorubicin 60mg/m2 (or Epirubicin 100 mg/m2) + Standard of Care chemotherapy and drugs
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Drug: Chemotherapy (control)
Anthracycline Doxorubicin 60mg/m2 (or Epirubicin 100 mg/m2) + Standard of Care chemotherapy and drugs. Anthracycline chemotherapy nominally every 21±7 days. Standard of care (including breast imaging, drugs, and radiation) will be provided to all eligible subjects during and following the above study treatments.
Other Name: Adriamycin |
- Tumor Shrinkage (ultrasound) [ Time Frame: Prior to Surgery, on average 4 months from the start of treatment ]Evaluate the efficiency of preoperative focused microwave thermotherapy as an adjunct to chemotherapy to increase the ultrasound-measured absolute mean tumor percent shrinkage by volume over that achieved by SOC preoperative chemotherapy.
- Conversion Rate to Breast Conservation (surgeon recommended) [ Time Frame: Prior to Mastectomy Recommendation, on average 4 months from the start of treatment ]Evaluate the potential benefits of this combination treatment to increase the absolute rate for which the surgeon can recommend breast conservation (lumpectomy or partial mastectomy) over that achieved using standard of care preoperative chemotherapy alone.
- Tumor Shrinkage (Clinical) [ Time Frame: Prior to Surgery, on average 4 months from the start of treatment ]Evaluate the potential benefits of this combination treatment to increase the clinical (caliper-measured) absolute mean tumor shrinkage by area over that achieved by SOC preoperative chemotherapy
- Tumor Shrinkage (Mammography) [ Time Frame: Prior to Surgery, on average 4 months from the start of treatment ]Evaluate the potential benefits of the combination treatment to increase the absolute mean tumor shrinkage by area on mammography over the achieved by SOC preoperative chemotherapy
- Tumor Shrinkage (MRI) [ Time Frame: Prior to Surgery, on average 4 months from the start of treatment ]Evaluate the potential benefits of this combination treatment to increase the absolute mean tumor shrinkage by volume based on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) over that achieved by SOC preoperative chemotherapy.
- Tumor Necrosis (pathology) [ Time Frame: After Surgery, on average 5 months from the start of treatment ]Evaluate the potential benefits of this combination treatment to increase the absolute mean percent localized pathologic tumor cell kill by volume over that achieved by SOC preoperative chemotherapy.

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Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | Female |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
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Subjects must fulfill all of the following criteria to be eligible to participate in the study unless a specific waiver is requested by the investigator, agreed to by the sponsor, and documented for the study records. This protocol does not supersede Institutional IRB requirements for patient eligibility.
- Female subject must be 18 years of age or older.
- Subject must have adequate cognitive function to understand and sign the IRB/EC - approved informed consent prior to the performance of any study-specific procedure.
- The subject must be at no risk for pregnancy either postmenopausal for at least one year, surgically sterile (i.e. hysterectomy), using two forms of birth control one being barrier method or practicing abstinence throughout the length of the study. The subject must also have a negative serum pregnancy test prior to any study-specific procedure.
- Subject must have diagnosis by core biopsy of primary breast cancer, invasive ductal carcinoma or invasive lobular carcinoma, clinical tumor size 3.5 cm or greater, tumor classification T2 or T3, clinically node positive (N1, N2) or node negative (N0) by clinical exam, CT scan, or ultrasound, with distant metastasis (M1) or without distant metastasis (M0), with an indication for mastectomy.
- Primary tumor must be measurable on breast ultrasound (US).
- Primary tumor must be measurable by clinical exam.
- Subject is a candidate for mastectomy and is eligible for neoadjuvant treatment.
- Subject is a candidate for preoperative anthracycline-based combination chemotherapy.
- Subject has a life expectancy of 6 months or more.
- Karnofsky Score > 70.
Exclusion Criteria:
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Subjects meeting any of the following criteria will be excluded from the study unless a specific waiver is requested by the investigator, agreed to by the sponsor, and documented appropriately for the study records. This protocol does not supersede Institutional IRB requirements for patient eligibility:
- Pregnant or lactating subject.
- Mentally unable to participate in the study successfully because they are unable to understand the informed consent or unable to comply with the required study procedures.
- Currently has breast implants.
- Bilateral breast cancer.
- Subjects with malignant breast tumors other than invasive ductal or invasive lobular carcinomas.
- Subject is a candidate for breast conservation at enrollment.
- Unable to tolerate prone position or breast compression.
- Clinically significant heart disease, pacemakers, or defibrillators.
- Bleeding disorders. Laboratory evidence of coagulopathy (PT, INR > 1.5; PTT > 1.5) or those who are receiving anticoagulants.
- Thrombocytopenia (platelet count less than 100,000/mm3).
- Renal insufficiency (BUN > 30 mg/dlan/or serum creatinine > 1.9 mg/dl).
- Liver disease (bilirubin > 2.0 mg/dl and or > 2 fold increase of transaminases).
- Diagnosis of cancer made by lumpectomy or incisional biopsy.
- Contraindications to chemotherapy.
- Clinical tumor fixation to the pectoralis major muscle or presence of skin nodules, involvement of the nipple.
- Breast cancer with a high probability of extensive intra-ductal in situ disease (extensive DCIS or LCIS).
- Multicentric disease (no satellite tumors greater than 2 cm diameter and no greater than 1.5 cm from the primary tumor as measured from the edge of the satellite tumor to the nearest edge of the primary tumor).
- Prior history of collagen vascular disease.
- Previous participation in Celsion Corporation study 201 or 202.
- Subject has participated in an investigation drug or device trial 30 days prior to the screening visit or plans to enroll in an investigational drug or device trial at any time during this study. However current participation in another clinical study involving imaging is not exclusion.
- Subject has a history of drug or alcohol abuse in the last 12 months.
- Non-glandular breast cancers

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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01204801
United States, Oklahoma | |
Dr. William Dooley | Recruiting |
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, 73104 | |
Contact: Deborah Moorad-Watts 405-271-2090 Deborah-Moorad-Watts@ouhsc.edu | |
Principal Investigator: William C Dooley, MD | |
Canada, Quebec | |
Ville-Marie Medical Centre | Recruiting |
Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3G 1L5 | |
Contact: John R Keyserlingk, MD (514)933-2778 ext 260 jkeyserlingk@vmmed.com |
Principal Investigator: | William C. Dooley, MD | University of Oklahoma | |
Principal Investigator: | John Keyserlingk, MD | Centre Medical Ville-Marie |
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Responsible Party: | Medifocus, Inc. |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT01204801 |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
102-00-301 |
First Posted: | September 17, 2010 Key Record Dates |
Last Update Posted: | September 24, 2015 |
Last Verified: | September 2015 |
Cancer Breast Cancer Breast Tumor Breast Neoplasm Neoplasms by Site Neoplasms Breast Diseases Breast Conserving Surgery Breast Conservation Partial Mastectomy Lumpectomy Mastectomy Surgery Neoadjuvant Therapy Primary Therapy |
Neoadjuvant Systemic Therapy Thermotherapy Fever Therapy Hot Temperature Hyperthermia Hyperthermia, Therapeutic Hyperthermia, Local Hyperthermia, Induced Therapeutic Hyperthermia Microwave Focused Microwave Focused Microwave Thermotherapy Minimally Invasive Doxorubicin Epirubicin |
Breast Neoplasms Neoplasms by Site Neoplasms Breast Diseases Skin Diseases Doxorubicin Liposomal doxorubicin |
Antibiotics, Antineoplastic Antineoplastic Agents Topoisomerase II Inhibitors Topoisomerase Inhibitors Enzyme Inhibitors Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action |