About this trial
The goal of the study is to assess the safety and effectiveness of the combination of anti-PD1 immunotherapy (pembrolizumab) and radiotherapy in the preoperative treatment of HER2-negative breast cancer resistant to classical chemotherapy.
The subject of the intervention will be:
1. Randomly assigned in a 2:1 ratio and double-blinded addition of pre-operative immunotherapy with pembrolizumab or placebo to standard chemotherapy 2. Addition of preoperative radiotherapy boost delivered with a CyberKnife radiosurgery system concomitantly with the use of paclitaxel (+/- carboplatin) and pembrolizumab / placebo.
Eligibility criteria
Qualifiers
A woman or a man over 18 years of age.
Diagnosis of invasive breast cancer
Patient eligible for standard preoperative chemotherapy for breast cancer with anthracyclines and paclitaxel, according to the investigator's assessment
any T cN1-cN3
Disqualifiers
Inflammatory breast cancer (cT4d)
Hypersensitivity to drugs or excipients used in the study, which, in the opinion of the researcher, does not allow therapy to be initiated
Major surgical or medical procedure within 14 days prior to study entry; does not apply to ovariectomy performed laparoscopically, including as a risk-reducing surgical procedure and ovarian biopsy as a fertility preservation procedure and diagnostic procedures
Parallel coexisting invasive cancer
Trial design
Treatments tested in this trial
- Keytruda
- Preoperative radiation therapy
- Placebo