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Comparing Decision on Aesthetics After Breast Cancer Locoregional Treatment. (CINDERELLA)

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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT05196269
Recruitment Status : Recruiting
First Posted : January 19, 2022
Last Update Posted : March 21, 2024
Sponsor:
Collaborators:
European Commission
INESC TEC - Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science (Porto, Portugal)
Cankado GmbH
FCiências.ID - Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento de Ciências (Lisbon, Portugal)
Bocconi University
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
Maria-Joao Cardoso, Fundacao Champalimaud

Brief Summary:
Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer, with an estimated 2.3 million new cases per year globally. Approximately 90% of these patients will undergo breast surgery with/without radiation (locoregional treatment). Different surgical techniques can be offered to the patient, each leading to completely different aesthetic outcomes. Moreover, the aesthetic outcome could be completely different for patients undergoing the same surgery based on individual patient factors (e.g., age, body habitus). In the CINDERELLA trial, the investigators will be using the (Breast Locoregional (BreLO) AI system (an artificial intelligence-based tool for the classification of aesthetic outcomes and matching data and photographs) integrated into CANKADO (a cloud-based healthcare platform) to create an easy-to-use application that can be used on any electronic device, to simulate visually to the patient the aesthetic outcome of a certain surgery or radiation treatment. In the CINDERELLA trial, the investigators plan to compare whether the application helped fulfil the expectations and lead to a better quality of life compared with the classical approach. In the classical approach (control arm), doctors usually propose a locoregional treatment and explain theoretically how the result will be. Nurses help by explaining further details about the surgery and possible outcomes. In most centres, no photographic evaluation is done, and expectations are not measured. The CINDERELLA trial will help overcome miscommunication and potential boundaries in the patient's or physician's understanding of the potential outcomes of locoregional breast cancer treatment.

Condition or disease Intervention/treatment Phase
Breast Cancer Device: Artificial Intelligence and Digital Health Arm Not Applicable

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Study Type : Interventional  (Clinical Trial)
Estimated Enrollment : 1030 participants
Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Intervention Model Description: Prospective randomized open trial with parallel groups
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Other
Official Title: Comparing Decision on Match of Expectations and Aesthetics Using a Conventional Versus a Cloud-based Healthcare Platform Approach in Breast Cancer Patients Proposed for Locoregional Treatment: A Prospective Randomized Trial
Actual Study Start Date : August 8, 2023
Estimated Primary Completion Date : December 2024
Estimated Study Completion Date : December 2025

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MedlinePlus related topics: Breast Cancer

Arm Intervention/treatment
Experimental: Artificial Intelligence and Digital Health Arm
Using an Artificial Intelligence approach integrated in a cloud-based healthcare platform CANKADO to give the patient complete information about the proposed type of locoregional treatment and access to photographs and data of patients with similar characteristics previously treated with the same technique. All interaction will be through the CANKADO Platform.
Device: Artificial Intelligence and Digital Health Arm
A previous large database repository of images having thousands of pre and postoperative photographs of breast cancer patients proposed for locoregional treatment with clinical and biometric data will be matched using artificial intelligence within the CANKADO platform. Patients proposed for breast cancer locoregional treatment will have access to the software installed, and they will have access to all the information about the type of treatment they will receive. All the questions and questionnaires will be filled out online, and they can visualise the expected outcome from excellent to poor.
Other Name: Artificial Intelligence and cloud-based digital health platform

Control Comparator
The standard approach of proposing patients for locoregional treatment with or without printed or digital materials and hypothetic visualization of results.
Device: Artificial Intelligence and Digital Health Arm
A previous large database repository of images having thousands of pre and postoperative photographs of breast cancer patients proposed for locoregional treatment with clinical and biometric data will be matched using artificial intelligence within the CANKADO platform. Patients proposed for breast cancer locoregional treatment will have access to the software installed, and they will have access to all the information about the type of treatment they will receive. All the questions and questionnaires will be filled out online, and they can visualise the expected outcome from excellent to poor.
Other Name: Artificial Intelligence and cloud-based digital health platform




Primary Outcome Measures :
  1. Agreement between patients expectations before and after treatment in both the intervention and the control arm [ Time Frame: 12 months after locoregional treatment (surgery or radiotherapy in case adjuvant radiotherapy is done) ]
    Agreement between patient's expectations about the aesthetic outcome measured before and after treatment, evaluated at 12 months after treatment (Cohen's Kappa and weighted Kappa Statistics) both the intervention and the control arm.

  2. Agreement about the aesthetic outcome between the objective evaluation and self- evaluation measured after treatment in both the intervention and the control arm [ Time Frame: 12 months after locoregional treatment (surgery or radiotherapy in case adjuvant radiotherapy is done) ]
    Agreement about the aesthetic outcome between the AI evaluation tool (BCT.core software) and self- evaluation after treatment (Cohen's Kappa and weighted Kappa Statistics) in both the intervention and the control arm.


Secondary Outcome Measures :
  1. Patient's body image satisfaction after surgery measured through the BREAST-Q - International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM) questionnaire [ Time Frame: 12 months after locoregional treatment (surgery or radiotherapy in case adjuvant radiotherapy is done) ]
    Body image perception and satisfaction using the BREAST-Q ICHOM questionnaire. The scale scores from 0 lowest to 100 highest (body image satisfaction) in both the intervention and the control arm.

  2. Resource consumption a) time spent in hospital b) number of appointments c) duration until treatment d) out of pocket expenditure, additional care sought by patients [ Time Frame: 12 months after locoregional treatment (surgery or radiotherapy in case adjuvant radiotherapy is done ]
    Resource consumption (cost per patient evaluated by the amount of appointments between the surgical proposal by the surgeon and the end of the trial) in both the intervention and control arm.

  3. Patient's general health-related quality of life evaluated in both the intervention and control arm with the EQ-5D-5L questionnaire [ Time Frame: 12 months after locoregional treatment (surgery or radiotherapy in case adjuvant radiotherapy is done) ]
    How results impact in patients general quality of life evaluated in both the intervention and control arm with the EQ-5D-5L questionnaire. The scale scores from 0 lowest to 100 highest. A high scale score represents a high/healthy level of functioning.



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Ages Eligible for Study:   18 Years and older   (Adult, Older Adult)
Sexes Eligible for Study:   All
Gender Based Eligibility:   Yes
Gender Eligibility Description:  

The solution we aim to apply in clinical practice is non-sex/gender specific. However, the proposal focuses on breast cancer, where there will be a predominance of female participants.

The incidence of breast cancer contrasts strikingly according to gender, with approximately 1% of all tumours occurring in males. Although breast conservation can also be offered to men, it is a rare practice, and most men are submitted to mastectomy without breast reconstruction.

As a consequence, it will be very difficult to recruit male patients to the study and obtain data that will allow any conclusions taking into account that mastectomy without reconstruction is out of our scope, and as such will not be included in our trial.

Accepts Healthy Volunteers:   No
Criteria

Inclusion :

  • More than 18 years old
  • Written informed consent
  • Primary breast cancer in situ or invasive without evidence of systemic disease - non Stage IV or locally advanced non-operable breast cancer.
  • Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status 0 or 1
  • Uni or Bilateral surgery even if prophylactic in one side
  • Capacity to use a web-based app autonomously or with home-based support

Exclusion:

  • Mastectomy without reconstruction
  • Pregnancy or lactation
  • Previous radiation to breast/chest (e.g., lymphoma)
  • Previous ipsilateral breast surgery due to malignant disease.
  • Other neoplasm in the last 5 years (excluding basal cell carcinoma of the skin and adequately treated carcinoma in situ of the cervix)
  • Severe skin disease that will contra-indicate the use of radiotherapy
  • Prophylactic surgery

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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT05196269


Contacts
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Contact: Maria-Joao Cardoso, MD, PhD +351 966484826 maria.joao.cardoso@fundacaochampalimaud.pt

Locations
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Germany
Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg Recruiting
Heidelberg, Germany, 69120
Contact: Martina Manns    +49 6221 568438    Martina.Manns@med.uni-heidelberg.de   
Principal Investigator: Joerg Heil, MD, PhD         
Israel
Sheba Medical Center Recruiting
Ramat Gan, Israel, 52621
Contact: Michaela Ofir       michaela.smiloviciofir@sheba.health.gov.il   
Principal Investigator: Orit Kaidar-Person, MD, PhD         
Sub-Investigator: Dov Zippel         
Sub-Investigator: Nama Hermann         
Sub-Investigator: Josef Haik         
Italy
IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele Recruiting
Milano, Italy, 20132
Contact: Thierry Touvier       touvier.thierry@hsr.it   
Principal Investigator: Oreste Gentilini, MD, PhD         
Sub-Investigator: Rosa di Mico         
Poland
Copernicus Mamma Centrum, Wojewodzkie Centrum Onkologii, Copernicus Podmiot Leczniczy Recruiting
Gdańsk, Pomeranian, Poland, 80-210
Contact: Pawel Kabata, MD, PhD       pawel.kabata@iplpk.onmicrosoft.com   
Principal Investigator: Pawel Kabata, MD, PhD         
Gdański Uniwersytet Medyczny Recruiting
Gdańsk, Pomeranian, Poland, 80-210
Contact: Mateusz Kirjak       m.kirjak@gumed.edu.pl   
Principal Investigator: Maciej Bobowicz, MD, PhD         
Sub-Investigator: Elzbieta Senkus-Konefka, MD, PhD         
Portugal
Champalimaud Research and Clinical Centre, Champalimaud Foundation Recruiting
Lisboa, Portugal, 1400-038
Contact: Maria-Joao Cardoso, MD, PhD       maria.joao.cardoso@fundacaochampalimaud.pt   
Contact: Eduard-Alexandru Bonci, MD, PhD       eduard.bonci@research.fchampalimaud.org   
Principal Investigator: Maria-Joao Cardoso, MD, PhD         
Sub-Investigator: Carlos Mavioso, MD         
Sub-Investigator: Pedro Gouveia, MD, PhD         
Sub-Investigator: David Pinto, MD         
Sub-Investigator: Rogelio Andrés-Luna, MD         
Sponsors and Collaborators
Fundacao Champalimaud
European Commission
INESC TEC - Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science (Porto, Portugal)
Cankado GmbH
FCiências.ID - Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento de Ciências (Lisbon, Portugal)
Bocconi University
Investigators
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Principal Investigator: Maria-Joao Cardoso, PhD Champalimaud Foundation
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Responsible Party: Maria-Joao Cardoso, Head Breast Surgeon - MD, PhD, Fundacao Champalimaud
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT05196269    
Other Study ID Numbers: CINDERELLA
First Posted: January 19, 2022    Key Record Dates
Last Update Posted: March 21, 2024
Last Verified: March 2024
Individual Participant Data (IPD) Sharing Statement:
Plan to Share IPD: No

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Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Drug Product: No
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Device Product: No
Keywords provided by Maria-Joao Cardoso, Fundacao Champalimaud:
Breast cancer
Surgery
Radiation
Artificial Intelligence
Outcomes
Aesthetics
Expectations
Satisfaction
Quality of life
Digital Platform
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
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Breast Neoplasms
Neoplasms by Site
Neoplasms
Breast Diseases
Skin Diseases