Breast Cancer Clinical Trials in United Kingdom

This work aims to use wearable sensors to record the return towards normal physical activity after breast surgery. It will build on current evidence by using objective measures of activity and arm movements rather than patient reports. Read Less

Pear Bio has developed an organ-on-a-chip device together with a computer vision pipeline through which the response of an individual patient's tumor to different systemic therapy regimens can be tested simultaneously ex vivo. This study will recruit patients with advanced or metastatic triple negative breast cancer who are due to start a clinically-indicated new line of therapy. The oncologist will be blinded to the response on the Pear Bio tool (the assay will be run in parallel with the patient's treatment). The primary objective of this study is to establish the sensitivity and specificity of Pear Bio's test against patient outcomes (response, progression-free survival, overall survival) Read Less

Neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT) is increasingly used in breast cancer. The best proof of NACT efficacy is pathological complete response (pCR), i.e. the absence of invasive tumour on post-NACT surgical histopathology. While it is known that physical exercise can help patients to better tolerate and complete often harsh cancer treatments, it is an emerging area of research to understand if and how exercise exerts anti-tumour effects and improves oncological outcomes. The main aim of the Neo-ACT trial is to examine if a physical exercise intervention during NACT can increase pCR rates in breast cancer. Secondary aims are residual cancer burden, radiological tumour response, patient-related outcomes (health-related quality of life, physical activity), physiological outcomes (muscle strength, cardiorespiratory fitness), cancer treatment-related toxicities (cognitive dysfunction, chemotherapy completion rates) and long-term sick leave. Furthermore, the trial will explore how physical exercise affects anti-tumoral mechanisms inherent to therapy or host by hypothesis-generating translational analyses. 712 patients with primary invasive breast cancer will be randomized to either a supervised intervention of high-intensity interval and resistance training during NACT, supported by an exercise app, or to usual care, and followed for two years. Physical activity is meticulously tracked. By offering patients active involvement, the trial contributes strongly to the concept of personalized medicine. Read Less

Prospective, observational cohort study looking at patients either at risk of breast cancer or have clinically suspected breast to assess the diagnostic performance of quantitative, non-contrast MRI. Read Less

The Multi-OutcoMe EvaluatioN of radiation Therapy Using the Unity MR-Linac Study (MOMENTUM) is a multi-institutional, international registry facilitating evidenced based implementation of the Unity MR-Linac technology and further technical development of the MR-Linac system with the ultimate purpose to improve patients' survival, local, and regional tumor control and quality of life. Read Less

The aim of this study is to assess the rates of circulating tumour DNA (ctDNA) in patients treated with surgery for stage 1 breast cancer that is HER2 positive or triple negative. The study will involve collecting blood samples from patients before and after surgery, if patients are enrolled after surgery, blood samples will be collected after the procedure. On the follow-up visit, the results obtained from the blood tests will serve as a diagnostic method to discern adverse outcomes in the groups of patients with positive and negative ctDNA detection. Also, the results obtained will aid physicians in determining treatment courses for patients, in order to reduce the intensity of adjuvant chemotherapy. By identifying the patients with residual disease with ctDNA analysis, it is possible that this will improve disease prognosis. Read Less

The aim of the study is to compare performance and safety of a newly developed 14-gauge open-tip pulsed biopsy needle with a conventional 14-gauge core biopsy needle for sampling of radiologically indeterminate or suspicious axillary lymph nodes in women with radiologically suspected breast cancer. This is a Sponsor-initiated multicentre randomised trial. At the time of radiological breast cancer diagnosis women with ultrasonically abnormal lymph nodes undergo axillary sampling using the NeoNavia biopsy system or a common CNB device. This is in accordance with clinical routine and current clinical guidelines. The NeoNavia biopsy system is approved for use in the axillary lymph nodes. Read Less

This neoadjuvant trial for patients with TNBC and/or gBRCA breast cancer, aims to investigate the safety and efficacy (improvement in pathological Complete Response at surgery) of concurrent platinum-based chemotherapy with olaparib an inhibitor of the PARP enzyme (PARPi). Read Less

The scope of this study is the methodological development and optimisation of sodium MRI (23Na-MRI) protocols for breast cancer imaging. The study further proposes to utilise biomarkers obtained from 23Na-imaging (cell integrity), FDG-PET (metabolism), multi-parametric MRI (perfusion, vascularity, cellularity, morphology) to generate parameter maps specific for physiological processes in breast cancer. Read Less