Clinical trial · Interventional
Cryoablation Therapy in Treating Patients With Invasive Ductal Breast Cancer
A Phase II Trial Exploring the Success of Cryoablation Therapy in the Treatment of Invasive Breast Carcinoma
NCT00723294CI-TRIAL-00029056unknownPhase 2Results postedClinicalTrials.gov clinicaltrialsProvenance
- Source
- ClinicalTrials.gov
- Retrieved
- Sep 8, 2026
- Layer
- normalized (units and labels harmonized; values unchanged)
- Run
- ING-CLINICALTRIALS-20260908-000001
Summary
Brief summary (as posted)
This phase II trial is studying how well cryoablation therapy works in treating patients with invasive ductal breast cancer. Cryoablation kills tumor cells by freezing them. This may be an effective treatment for patients with invasive ductal breast cancer.
Conditions
Conditions (1)
Free-text conditions as registered, with the CancerIndex entity they were reconciled to and the match type.
| Condition (as posted) | Mapped entity | Match | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Breast Cancer | Malignant Breast Neoplasm | CURATED_EXACT | 0.92 |
Interventions
Interventions (2)
| Intervention | Type | Mapped drug | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| cryosurgery | Procedure | — | UNRESOLVED |
| therapeutic conventional surgery | Procedure | — | UNRESOLVED |
Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (1)
- type
- EXPERIMENTAL
- label
- Treatment (cryoablation)
- description
- A cryoprobe is inserted percutaneously under ultrasound guidance into the targeted lesion. Patients undergo ablation using a freeze-thaw-freeze cycle lasting approximately 6-10-6 or 8-10-8 minutes, respectively. Patients undergo surgical resection and sentinel lymph node biopsy and/or axillary dissection within 28 days after completion of cryoablation. Patients complete the Brief Pain Inventory before and after cryoablation and after surgery.
- interventionNames
- Procedure: cryosurgery
- Procedure: therapeutic conventional surgery
Primary outcomes (1)
- measure
- Rate of Complete Tumor Ablation
- timeFrame
- Up to 14 days post surgery
- description
- The primary endpoint for this study is the rate of complete ablation. Complete ablation is defined as no remaining invasive or in situ carcinoma present upon pathological examination of the targeted lesion. The rate (percentage) will be computed as the number of patient lesions with complete tumor ablation divided by the total number of eligible patient lesions. This rate will be estimated by the binomial point estimate (number of patients with no pathological evidence of residual disease in the targeted lesion after ablation divided by the number of eligible patients) and a one-sided 90% binomial confidence interval (interval with a lower bound).
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- All
- Minimum age
- 18 Years
Show eligibility criteria text
1. Unifocal primary invasive ductal breast carcinoma diagnosed by core needle biopsy. NOTE: Patients with lobular carcinoma, multifocal and/or multicentric ipsilateral breast cancer, multifocal calcifications, or DCIS with microinvasion are NOT eligible. Patients with contralateral disease will remain eligible. 2. No history of en bloc open surgical biopsy and/or lumpectomy for diagnostic/treatment of the index breast cancer. Note: Prior rotational and/or vacuum-assisted core biopsies are permitted if no significant distortion is seen on imaging that could obscure visualization and detection of residual disease on MRI, or visualization of cancer on ultrasound for cryoablation procedure. 3. Tumor size ≤ 2.0 cm in greatest diameter. Specifically, the tumor must measure ≤ 2.0 cm in the axis parallel to the treatment probe and ≤ 1.5 cm in the axis anti-parallel to the treatment probe. Largest size measured by required scans (mammogram, ultrasound and MRI) will be used to determine eligibility. 4. Tumor enhancement on pre-study MRI. 5. Tumor with \< 25% intraductal components in the aggregate. NOTE: The percent intraductal component from the patient's diagnostic biopsy must be available prior to registration. If the biopsy pathology report does not contain the percent intraductal component, then re-review of pathology slides and creation of a report addendum or note-to-file by the reviewing pathologist will be required. 6. No prior or planned neoadjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer. 7. Non-pregnant and non-lactating. Patients of childbearing potential must have a negative serum or urine pregnancy test. NOTE: Peri-menopausal women must be amenorrheic for \> 12 months to be considered not of childbearing potential. 8. Adequate breast size for safe cryoablation. Male breast cancer patients and female breast cancer patients with breasts too small to allow safe cryoablation are not eligible as the minimal thickness of the breast tissue does not lend itself to cryoablation. NOTE: For patients with breast implants, the treating physician must document that adequate distance exists between the lesion and the implant to ensure that the ablated lesion will not contact or jeopardize the implant. 9. Patients with prior in-situ or invasive breast carcinomas are eligible if the prior carcinomas occurred in the contralateral breast. Patients with prior in-situ or invasive carcinomas of the ipsilateral breast are not eligible.
References
Publications (1)
- RESULTSimmons RM, Ballman KV, Cox C, Carp N, Sabol J, Hwang RF, Attai D, Sabel M, Nathanson D, Kenler A, Gold L, Kaufman C, Han L, Bleznak A, Stanley Smith J, Holmes D, Fornage B, Le-Petross C, Hoda S, McCall L, Hunt KK; ACOSOG investigators. A Phase II Trial Exploring the Success of Cryoablation Therapy in the Treatment of Invasive Breast Carcinoma: Results from ACOSOG (Alliance) Z1072. Ann Surg Oncol. 2016 Aug;23(8):2438-45. doi: 10.1245/s10434-016-5275-3. Epub 2016 May 24. PMID 27221361