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RecruitingNCT04084730Updated Sep 21, 2026

Study of 3-Day Partial Breast Radiation Therapy in Women With Breast Cancer

A Phase 2 interventional study of Accelerated Partial Breast Irradiation in Invasive Ductal Breast Carcinoma, Invasive Ductal Carcinoma, Breast and DCIS, sponsored by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Recruiting at 9 sites in United States. Open to female participants aged 45 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-09-21.

Sponsored by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Started Aug 2019; still recruiting 7 years 2 months later.
Phase
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
280
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
45 Years and older
Sex
Female
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Study summary

The purpose of this study is to determine if the dose of radiation therapy that is effective in producing a treatment response, delivered over a shorter treatment period, is a safe approach that causes few or mild side effects in women with newly diagnosed breast cancer or DCIS who have had a lumpectomy procedure.

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Conditions studied

  • Invasive Ductal Breast Carcinoma
  • Invasive Ductal Carcinoma, Breast
  • DCIS
  • DCIS Grade 1
  • DCIS Grade 2
  • Breast Cancer

Keywords

  • Unicentric pathological stage I breast invasive ductal breast cancer
  • Breast Cancer
  • Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
  • 19-300
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In context

Carcinoma, Ductal, Breast

86 studies on the registry are indexed under Carcinoma, Ductal, Breast; 7 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 280 is above the median of 92 across 69 interventional studies indexed under Carcinoma, Ductal, Breast.

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Lead sponsor

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center is the lead sponsor of 1,964 studies on the registry; 327 are open to participants now.

Of its 135 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 71 (53%) have results posted.

Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
45 Years and older
Sexes eligible
Female
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

Eligibility criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Female
  • Age >/= 45 years
  • Unicentric pathological stage I (pT1 or T2 pN0_M0) invasive ductal breast cancer or DCIS measuring \<3 cm in longest diameter on pathology and/or mammogram that is confirmed. If T2, the tumor must be less than 3cm in longest diameter. Note: Women ≥ 70 years or older with T1 invasive ductal carcinoma who are estrogen- receptor positive (ER+) with clinically negative axillary nodes, and do not undergo surgical lymph node mapping or dissection (i.e., if tumor deposit is 0.2 mm or less, regardless of whether the deposit is detected by immunohistochemistry or hematoxylin and eosin staining) will also be eligible. Patients age 50 or older who are clinically node-negative by physical exam and ultrasound and have a primary tumor that is \<=2 cm and hormone-receptor positive, are also eligible.
  • Histologically negative tumor margin or no tumor in a re-excision specimen on final shaved specimen.
  • Performance Status of 0 or 1.
  • Negative serum pregnancy test within 14 days prior to study treatment if a woman has . Subjects of child bearing potential are those who have not been surgically sterilized or have not been free from menses for > 1 year
  • Written obtained from subject and ability for subject or comply with the requirements of the study
  • Female subjects of childbearing potential should be willing to use 2 methods or or be surgically sterile or abstain from heterosexual activity for the duration of study participation. Should a woman become pregnant while participating on study, she should inform the treating physician immediately.

Inclusion Criteria for intermediate risk substudy:

  • Post-NAC cohort patients: clinical T1-T2 (less than or equal to 5cm in longest diameter on available imaging) and clinical N0-N1 (on exam and imaging) with pathological ypT0, ypTis, or ypT1 (\<=2cm) and ypN0 (any regimen of chemotherapy agents is allowed)

OR

  • Oncotype RS score of 26 or higher

OR

  • PAM50 ROR scored as "HIGH"

OR

  • Presence or LVI (focal, limited or "not otherwise specified") in the lumpectomy specimen

OR

  • Age 40-49 years (ALL OF THE FOLLOWING MUST BE TRUE : 1) no history of prior benign breast , 2) no concomitant or prior atypia in either breast, 3) no concomitant or prior LCIS in either breast, 4) no family history of breast cancer in first degree relatives)

OR

  • Invasive lobular carcinoma

OR

  • Surgical margins less than 1 mm to invasive or in-situ disease.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Patients with distant
  • Patients who are pregnant or breastfeeding
  • Patients with diffuse (>1 quadrant or >5cm) suspicious microcalcifications or patients with known multicentric OR multifocal disease. (microscopic multifocal disease that may be unifocal and/or appear multifocal due to sectioning is allowed after review with PI).
  • Prior radiation therapy to the ipsilateral or contralateral breast or thorax.
  • Histological evidence of extensive lymphovascular invasion (LVI)
  • Histological evidence of extensive intraductal component (EIC), defined as the presence of intraductal carcinoma both within the primary infiltrating ductal tumor (comprising at least 25% of the tumo area) and intraductal carcinoma present clearly beyond the edges of the invasive tumor.
  • Patients are not required to undergo BRCA1 and BRCA2 or other genetic mutation tests in order to enroll on the study. Note: in the event a patient is tested and is found to be a mutation carrier, she would be excluded from the study. It would be an extremely rare/unlikely scenario for patients to be discovered BRCA positive after the completion of PBI, as all patients with risk factors for BRCA mutations (positive family history, Ashkenazi Jewish descent, ER-/PR-/her2-neu-negative receptor status) are usually tested prior to radiation. Should such a situation exist, these patients will be given the option of remaining on the breast conservation paradigm or opting for mastectomy (as is done in this rare scenario is standard of care practice). The patient will be replaced on the trial.
  • History of cosmetic or reconstructive breast surgery.
  • Medical condition such as uncontrolled infection (including ), uncontrolled diabetes mellitus, or connective tissue diseases (lupus, systemic sclerosis, or other collagen vascular diseases) that, in the opinion of the treating physician, would make this protocol unreasonably hazardous for the patient.
  • Patients with a "currently active" second other than non-melanoma skin cancers. Patients are not considered to have "currently active" malignancies if they have completed therapy and are considered by their physicians to be at \<5% risk of relapse within 3 years.
  • Patients who are already enrolled in or planning to enroll in other adjuvant systemic therapy protocols for both non-invasive or invasive breast cancer
  • Expecting to conceive within the projected duration of the trials, starting with screening visit through 180 days after the last dose of trial treatment
  • Concomitant anti-neoplastic treatment is not allowed during protocol treatment and should be completed at least 2 weeks prior to commencement of protocol treatment, with resolution of associated acute toxicities. Bisphosponates are permitted without restriction even during protocol treatment. Note: This does not apply to hormonal therapies such as tamoxifen or AIs, which are permitted. This does not apply to anti-Her2 therapies such as trastuzumab or TDM-1, which are also permitted.
  • Ongoing therapy with other agents. Patients may not be receiving any other investigational agents.
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(11)

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Histologically or cytologically confirmed

The diagnosis was confirmed by looking at a sample under a microscope: tissue from a biopsy or surgery (histology), or cells from a fluid or needle sample (cytology).

Your pathology report is the document that shows this.

ECOG performance status

A scale of how much an illness limits everyday activity. For people being assessed to join a study, scores run from 0 (fully active) to 4; lower is more active.

0
Fully active, no restrictions.
1
Limited in strenuous activity, but walking and able to do light work, such as housework or office work.
2
Walking and able to look after yourself, but unable to work; up and about more than half of waking hours.
3
Able to look after yourself only in part; in bed or a chair more than half of waking hours.
4
Unable to look after yourself at all; in bed or a chair all day.

Studies most often ask for 0–1 or 0–2. Your doctor gives the score; the WHO scale uses the same steps. The full scale also has 5, which records death.

Childbearing potential

Able to become pregnant: from the first period until menopause, unless permanently unable to through surgery (removal of the womb, or of both ovaries or both fallopian tubes).

Criteria for people of childbearing potential usually ask for a negative pregnancy test and for contraception during the study and for a time after it.

Informed consent

Before you join, the study team explains what taking part involves — its purpose, what happens, the risks and possible benefits — and answers your questions, so you can decide freely. Consent is usually recorded on a form (the informed consent form, ICF) signed by you or, where the law allows, by someone legally authorised to decide for you.

You can keep asking questions during the study, you are told of new information that matters, and you can choose to leave at any time.

Contraception

Ways of preventing pregnancy. “Highly effective” methods fail less than 1% of the time a year when used correctly — for example an IUD or an implant.

Criteria usually say which methods count and how long to keep using them after the last dose, sometimes for male participants too. Some studies accept a partner’s vasectomy if it was confirmed successful and that person is the participant’s only sexual partner.

Adjuvant and neoadjuvant

Neoadjuvant treatment is given before the main treatment (usually surgery), often to shrink a tumour. Adjuvant treatment is given after it, to lower the chance of the cancer coming back.

Biopsy and archival tissue

A biopsy takes a small piece of tissue to examine. “Archival tissue” is a sample already taken, for example at diagnosis, and kept by the hospital.

Whether a stored sample will do depends on when it was taken, how much there is and what the study needs. Ask whether the study accepts your stored sample or needs a new biopsy.

Metastases

Cancer that has spread from where it began to other parts of the body. “Metastatic” cancer is cancer that has spread this way.

HIV

The human immunodeficiency virus, which weakens the immune system.

Many studies now accept people whose HIV is controlled on treatment, judged by the viral load and the CD4 count. Check the limits this study sets.

Cancer (malignancy)

Malignancy means cancer. Criteria about another or earlier malignancy ask whether you have had a different cancer, usually within a set number of years.

Some are commonly allowed, such as treated skin cancers other than melanoma and early cancers removed completely — check the exceptions this study lists.

Investigational drug or device

A drug or device being studied in a clinical trial.

It may be new, or already approved and being studied for another use, dose or form. Criteria often leave out people who took part in another study of one within a recent period, commonly 30 days or five half-lives.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 2
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
280 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Participants with Breast Cancer

    Participants will have unicentric pathological stage I invasive ductal breast cancer or Grade 1 or 2 DCIS measuring \<3cm in longest diameter on pathology and/or mammogram that is histologically confirmed at MSKCC.

    Radiation: Accelerated Partial Breast Irradiation

Interventions

  • RadiationAccelerated Partial Breast Irradiation

    Treatment will consist of APBI delivered using external beam RT techniques to a dose of 24 Gy in 3 fractions of 8.0 Gy delivered on consecutive weekdays

    Also known as: APBI

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Toxicity with novel APBI schedule as determined by CTCAE version 5

    The study is deemed too toxic if the rate of serious toxicity is \>/= 10%.

    Time frame: 24 months

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Study locations

9 of 9 sites recruiting
  • Norwalk Hospital
    Norwalk, Connecticut 06850, United States
    Recruiting
    • Philip Gilbo, MD · Contact203-845-4811
  • Baptist Alliance Miami Cancer Institute
    Miami, Florida 33143, United States
    Recruiting
    • Joseph Panoff, MD · Contact786-596-2000
  • Memorial Sloan Kettering Basking Ridge
    Basking Ridge, New Jersey 07920, United States
    Recruiting
    • Atif J Khan, MD · Contact848-225-6334
  • Memorial Sloan Kettering Monmouth
    Middletown, New Jersey 07748, United States
    Recruiting
    • Atif J Khan, MD · Contact848-225-6334
  • Memorial Sloan Kettering Bergen
    Montvale, New Jersey 07645, United States
    Recruiting
    • Atif J Khan, MD · Contact848-225-6334
  • Memorial Sloan Kettering Commack
    Commack, New York 11725, United States
    Recruiting
    • Atif J Khan, MD · Contact848-225-6334
  • Memorial Sloan Kettering Westchester
    Harrison, New York 10604, United States
    Recruiting
    • Atif J Khan, MD · Contact848-225-6334
  • Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
    New York, New York 10021, United States
    Recruiting
    • Atif J Khan, MD · Contact848-225-6334
  • Memorial Sloan Kettering Nassau
    Uniondale, New York 11553, United States
    Recruiting
    • Atif J Khan, MD · Contact848-225-6334
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: Yes — Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center supports the international committee of medical journal editors (ICMJE) and the ethical obligation of responsible sharing of data from clinical trials. The protocol summary, a statistical summary, and informed consent form will be made available on clinicaltrials.gov when required as a condition of Federal awards, other agreements supporting the research and/or as otherwise required. Requests for deidentified individual participant data can be made beginning 12 months after publication and for up to 36 months post publication. Deidentified individual participant data reported in the manuscript will be shared under the terms of a Data Use Agreement and may only be used for approved proposals. Requests may be made to: crdatashare@mskcc.org.

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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reached

Started Aug 2019 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Aug 2027, 96 months after the start.

How these figures are worked out, and which studies are left out of them.

Registered
Sep 4, 2019
First posted
Sep 10, 2019
StartActual
Aug 30, 2019
Primary completionEst.
Aug 30, 2027
CompletionEst.
Aug 30, 2027
Last update
Sep 21, 2026
What these dates mean
Start.
When the first participant enrolled; while estimated, when the study expects to open to recruitment.
Primary completion.
When the last participant was examined or treated to collect data for the study's main question, its primary outcome. A study that stopped early gives the date its data collection stopped.
Completion.
When the last participant's last visit took place, for every outcome, secondary ones and side effects included: the end of the study. Often later than primary completion, sometimes the same day.
Actual and Est.
Actual means the registry says the date has happened. Est. (estimated) is a date the sponsor plans or expects. It can still move, and the sponsor is expected to change it to actual once it has passed.
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Sep 21, 2026, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT04084730
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Sep 10, 2019
Start date
Aug 30, 2019
Primary completion
Aug 30, 2027 (estimated)
Completion
Aug 30, 2027 (estimated)
Last update
Sep 21, 2026

Study contacts

Atif J Khan, MD
Contact
khana7@mskcc.org
848-225-6334
Simon Powell, MD, PhD
Contact
powells@mskcc.org
212-639-3639
Atif J Khan, MD
principal investigator · Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Oversight

FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
Yes
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