Liposomal Doxorubicin Before Mastectomy in Treating Women With Invasive Breast Cancer

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2011-10-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Female

Summary

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as liposomal doxorubicin, work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. Giving chemotherapy in different ways, such as into the breast ducts, may kill more tumor cells. Giving chemotherapy before surgery may make the tumor smaller and reduce the amount of normal tissue that needs to be removed.

PURPOSE: This phase I trial is studying the side effects and best dose of liposomal doxorubicin when given before mastectomy in treating women with invasive breast cancer.

• Phase: Phase 1
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center; Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins
• Collaborator: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
• Treatments: Doxorubicin; Liposomal doxorubicin

Criteria

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

• Histologically confirmed infiltrating carcinoma of the breast meeting any of the following criteria:

• T1-3, any N disease

• Proven ductal carcinoma in situ

• Unresected disease

• Planned mastectomy as definitive surgical procedure

• Known or suspected metastatic disease allowed provided mastectomy is planned

• Nonpalpable tumor allowed (e.g., initial T2-3 tumor that responded to preoperative therapy)

• No inflammatory breast cancer or other T4 features

• Successful baseline ductogram

• Baseline nipple aspiration procedure must identify a duct productive of nipple aspirate fluid

• No severe nipple retraction

• Hormone receptor status not specified

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

• Female patients

• Menopausal status not specified

• ECOG performance status 0-2

• Absolute neutrophil count ≥1,500/mm^3

• Platelet count ≥ 100,000/mm^3

• Hemoglobin ≥ 9.0 g/dL

• Creatinine ≤ 2 times upper limit of normal (ULN)

• Bilirubin ≤ 2 times ULN

• AST and ALT ≤ 2.5 times ULN

• Not pregnant or nursing

• Negative pregnancy test

• Fertile patients must use effective contraception

• No significant history of severe allergy to iodinated contrast material or debilitating anxiety that may not allow for a ductogram

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

• See Disease Characteristics

• Prior preoperative chemotherapy, trastuzumab (Herceptin®), or hormonal therapy allowed provided it was completed 7-14 days prior to study treatment

• No prior radiation therapy, excisional biopsy, breast reduction, areolar surgery, or breast implant (present or past history of implant that was removed)

• No other prior procedure that may have altered the breast ductal system in the ipsilateral breast

• No other concurrent chemotherapy, radiotherapy, endocrine therapy, or biologic agents for breast cancer

• No other concurrent investigational drugs

• Concurrent bisphosphonates allowed