Safety of Omitting Axillary Surgery in Breast Cancer Patients With Isolated Chest Wall Recurrence

KK Women's and Children's Hospital

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Recurrent Disease; Breast Cancer

Treatments: Procedure: axillary surgery

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06088719

CIRB Ref: 2019/2419

Details and patient eligibility

About

The axillary management of breast cancer patients with operable isolated chest wall recurrence after mastectomy is unclear. We aim to determine if axillary restaging surgery can be safely omitted with no increased recurrences in this group of patients.

Enrollment: 300 estimated patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 100 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria: Mastectomy patients who developed pathologically confirmed invasive isolated chest wall recurrence.

Exclusion Criteria: -Patients with bilateral cancers

• Patients with evidence of concomitant distant or/and regional recurrences
• Patients who did not have surgery for their isolated chest wall recurrences.

Trial design

300 participants in 2 patient groups

axillary surgery group

Description:

this group of patients had axillary surgery for axilla staging

Treatment:

Procedure: axillary surgery

no axillary surgery group

Description:

this group of patients had no axillary surgery for axilla staging