An interventional study of Single dose ablative radiotherapy in Breast Cancer, sponsored by Amsterdam UMC, location VUmc. Recruiting at 7 sites in 2 countries. Open to female participants aged 40 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-07-16.
Sponsored by Amsterdam UMC, location VUmc · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment
In this ABLATIVE-2 trial, low-risk breast cancer patients will be treated with MRI-guided single dose preoperative partial breast radiotherapy to assess the rate of pathologic complete response after an interval of six to twelve months between radiotherapy and surgery. Response monitoring will be assessed using MRI and markers in blood and tumor tissue to enable prediction of pathologic response.
Patients will receive single-dose preoperative radiotherapy followed by breast conserving surgery (BCS) at 12 months after radiotherapy, as long as follow-up MRI scans show a complete radiologic response. In case of incomplete radiologic response, BCS will be performed at 6 months after radiotherapy. BCS is performed earlier when progressive disease is found on MRI. In the follow-up period between radiotherapy and surgery, tumor response will be monitored using MRI every 3 months. After surgery, patients will be followed up until 10 years after radiotherapy treatment to assess oncological outcomes, toxicity, cosmetic outcome and quality of life.
14,825 studies on the registry are indexed under Breast Neoplasms; 3,319 are open to participants now.
This study's planned enrollment of 100 is above the median of 72 across 10,896 interventional studies indexed under Breast Neoplasms.
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Females at least 50 years of age with unifocal cT1N0 breast cancer on mammography, ultrasound and MRI.
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Exclusion Criteria:
Underlined terms in the criteria open these too. Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
HER2 is a protein, made from the ERBB2 gene, that drives the growth of some cancers. A study may look for a level of the protein, extra copies of the gene, or a particular change in it.
In breast cancer, protein tests are read as HER2-positive, HER2-low or HER2-negative; other cancers use their own rules. Check which test result the study requires.
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.
Cancer that has spread from where it began to other parts of the body. “Metastatic” cancer is cancer that has spread this way.
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.
A reason a treatment, test or procedure should not be given to a particular person, such as an allergy, another illness or a medicine they take.
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.
HER2
HER2 is a protein, made from the ERBB2 gene, that drives the growth of some cancers. A study may look for a level of the protein, extra copies of the gene, or a particular change in it.
In breast cancer, protein tests are read as HER2-positive, HER2-low or HER2-negative; other cancers use their own rules. Check which test result the study requires.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Metastases
Cancer that has spread from where it began to other parts of the body. “Metastatic” cancer is cancer that has spread this way.
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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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Contraindication
A reason a treatment, test or procedure should not be given to a particular person, such as an allergy, another illness or a medicine they take.
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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.
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Radiation: Single dose ablative radiotherapy
Patients will receive a single dose of 20Gy/15Gy on the gross tumor volume and clinical tumor volume respectively, in the context of pre-operative partial breast irradiation
Pathologic complete response
pCR is defined as the absence of residual invasive cancer on resected breast specimen
Time frame: 12 months after radiotherapy
Radiologic complete response
Radiologic complete response (rCR) is defined as complete absence of pathologic contrast enhancement in the original tumor bed and complete absence of pathologic ADC (apparent diffusion coefficient) reduction in the original tumor bed. rCR is reported according to the Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) 1.1 guidelines.
Time frame: at baseline, 2 weeks, 3, 6, 9, and 12 months after radiotherapy
Treatment-related adverse events
Number of participants with treatment-related adverse events as assessed by the Common Terminology Criteria Adverse Events version 5.0
Time frame: at baseline, 2 weeks, 3, 6, 9, 12 months, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 10 years after radiotherapy
Patient quality of life
PROMs are assessed using the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer core-30 quality of life questionnaire (EORTC QLQ-C30)
Time frame: at baseline, 2 weeks, 3, 6, 9, 12 months, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 10 years after radiotherapy
Breast cancer specific quality of life
PROMs are assessed using the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer breast cancer-specific quality of life questionnaire (EORTC QLQ-BR23)
Time frame: at baseline, 2 weeks, 3, 6, 9, 12 months, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 10 years after radiotherapy
Patient distress
PROMs are assessed using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) questionnaire
Time frame: at baseline, 2 weeks, 3, 6, 9, 12 months, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 10 years after radiotherapy
Physician reported cosmetic outcome
Cosmetic outcome is assessed by the physician using a questionnaire
Time frame: at baseline, 2 weeks, 3, 6, 9, 12 months, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 10 years after radiotherapy
Patient reported cosmetic outcome
Cosmetic outcome is assessed by the patient using the BREAST-Q questionnaire. .
Time frame: at baseline, 2 weeks, 3, 6, 9, 12 months, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 10 years after radiotherapy
Objective cosmetic outcome
Cosmetic outcome is assessed objectively using images captured using the VECTRA XT 3D-imaging system. This three-dimensional surface-imaging system uses stereophotogrammetry to estimate x, y, z coordinates of the imaged surface. These coordinates will be used to calculate the volume-shape-symmetry measure.
Time frame: at baseline, 2 weeks, 3, 6, 9, 12 months, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 10 years after radiotherapy
Local, regional and distant relapse rates
A local recurrence is defined as disease occurrence in the ipsilateral breast. A regional recurrence is defined as nodal occurrence in the ipsilateral axilla, internal mammary, infraclavicular or supraclavicular region. A distant metastasis defined as disease occurrence in the contralateral breast or contralateral breast nodal region or another organ than breast involvement.
Time frame: Day of radiotherapy till end of follow-up of 10 years
Overall survival
Overall survival will be calculated from the date of the radiotherapy treatment until the time of breast-cancer related death or breast-cancer unrelated death.
Time frame: Day of radiotherapy till end of follow-up of 10 years
Radiotherapy-associated immune response markers
Immune response markers as CD3, CD4, CD8 and FOXP3 will be assessed in tumor tissue after surgery.
Time frame: 12 months after radiotherapy
Radiotherapy-associated biomarkers
ctDNA will be assessed in blood samples taken between radiotherapy and surgery.
Time frame: at baseline, 2 weeks, 3, 6, 9, and 12 months after radiotherapy
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Started Aug 2022 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Dec 2027, 64 months after the start.
Of 2,661 non-industry interventional studies with no phase under Breast Neoplasms, half reached primary completion within 33 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 16 and three quarters within 66. This study's planned 64 months is above that.
Counting every sponsor, half of 2,771 studies reached it within 33 months; a quarter within 15 and three quarters within 66.
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