About this trial
The goal of this clinical trial is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of neoadjuvant radiotherapy followed by chemotherapy combined with immunotherapy in patients with previously untreated stage IIB-IIIC (cT3N0 or cT2-4N1-3) HR-positive and HER2-negative breast cancer. 27 enrolled patients will be assigned to receive stereotactic body radiotherapy followed by Nab-Paclitaxel combined with Toripalimab. The main question it aims th answer is that whether the combination therapy of radiotherapy, de-escalated chemotherapy, and immunotherapy could improve the pCR rate of HR-positive and HER2-negative breast cancer.
Eligibility criteria
This trial does not accept healthy volunteersQualifiers
Female patients aged ≥18 and ≤75 years at the time of signing informed consent.
ECOG PS status of 0-1.
Clinical stage: Stage IIB, IIIA, IIIB, or IIIC
Required imaging assessments (within 28 days): Abdominal CT, ECT Bone scan, Chest CT and Brain MRI
Disqualifiers
Inflammatory Breast Cancer.
Autoimmune disease: patients with any known or suspected autoimmune disease, except: hypothyroidism due to autoimmune thyroiditis managed with hormone replacement therapy only, stable type-1 diabetes with well-controlled blood glucose.
Cardiovascular Diseases: poorly controlled hypertension despite medication (SBP >140 mmHg or DBP>90 mmHg). And with the history (within 6 months prior to enrollment) of myocardial infarction, severe/unstable angina, NYHA Class ≥2 heart failure, clinically significant arrhythmias as well as symptomatic congestive heart failure.
Interstitial lung disease, non-infectious pneumonitis, or other uncontrolled systemic diseases (e.g., diabetes, pulmonary fibrosis, acute pneumonia);
Trial design
Single group
Treatments tested in this trial
Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT)
RadiationThe prescribed dose of radiation is 24 Gy delivered in 3 fractions (8 Gy/fraction) using SBRT technique. Subjects received SBRT for the primary breast cancer lesion at 8Gy/Fraction each time for 3 consecutive days, 1 week before the start of systemic therapy. The first day of radiation is C1D1.
Toripalimab
DrugToripalimab will be administered at a fixed dose of 240 mg via intravenous infusion every 3 weeks (q3w). The first dose is given on Cycle 2 Day 1 (C2D1), followed by dosing on the first day of each subsequent cycle for a total of 4 cycles. (Toripalimab×4 240mg D1 q3w)
Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy
DrugCombined with Toripalimab, Nab-paclitaxel will be dosed at 125 mg/m² based on body surface area, administered by intravenous infusion weekly (Days 1, 8, 15 of each 21-day cycle) for 4 cycles.(T×4, Nab-Paclitaxel 125mg/m2,D1、D8、D15 q3w).
Surgery
Procedure/SurgerySurgery will be performed 2-6 weeks after completion of neoadjuvant therapy. The surgical approach will be determined by the investigator based on disease status and patient preference.
Adjuvant Chemotherapy
DrugThe anthracycline may be either Epirubicin (body surface area-adjusted 50 mg/m²) or Liposomal Doxorubicin (body surface area-adjusted 30 mg/m²) combined with Cyclophosphamide (body surface area-adjusted 600 mg/m²). Both drugs were administered intravenously every 3 weeks, and then the first day of each course was administered for 4 cycles. (EC×4, Epirubicin 50 mg/m² or Liposomal Doxorubicin 30 mg/m², comined with Cyclophosphamide 600 mg/m², D1, q3w)
Adjuvant Radiotherapy
RadiationConventional radiotherapy will be delivered to the breast/chest wall and regional lymph nodes (investigator-selected technique), with explicit prohibition of tumor bed boost irradiation.
Endocrine therapy
DrugInvestigator-selected adjuvant endocrine therapy will be deterimend according to applicable guidelines, considering menopausal status, recurrence risk, treatment history, comorbidities as well as patient preference.
Treatment groups
Trial outcomes
Primary outcomes
Pathologic complete response (pCR) rate according to RCB system
pCR is defined as the absence of invasive cancer in the breast primary lesion and negative regional lymph nodes (ypT0/Tis ypN0) by hematoxylin-eosin staining after completion of the neoadjuvant treatment. RCB system will be used for the pathological evaluation after neoadjuvant therapy
Secondary outcomes
RCB 0/I rate
The RCB 0/I rate is defined as the percentage of patients achieving either pathological complete response (RCB-0) or minimal residual disease (RCB-I), corresponding to near-pCR status
DFS and iDFS
Disease-free survival (DFS) is defined as the time from initiation of neoadjuvant therapy to the earliest occurrence of any of the following events: ipsilateral or contralateral invasive breast cancer recurrence, locoregional recurrence, distant recurrence, death from any cause, second primary non-breast malignancy, or ipsilateral/contralateral ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS). Invasive disease-free survival (iDFS) is measured from the start of neoadjuvant therapy until invasive disease recurrence (including locoregional recurrence, ipsilateral/contralateral invasive breast cancer, distant metastasis), new primary tumors, or death from any cause.
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