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Can treating less breast tissue mean fewer radiation side effects?
NCT ID NCT07811635
First seen Sep 10, 2026 · Last updated Sep 11, 2026 · Updated 1 time
Summary
The PRISM trial compares two radiation approaches after breast-conserving surgery for early-stage breast cancer. One approach treats only the area around the original tumor, while the other treats the whole breast. Both use the same short schedule of five radiation treatments. Researchers will track skin side effects reported by doctors and patients over 12 months to see if partial breast radiation causes fewer problems.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- ultra-hypofractionated radiation therapy, given either to part of the breast or the whole breast
- What this could lead to
- If partial breast radiation causes fewer skin side effects while controlling cancer as well as whole breast radiation, it could become a preferred option for some women with early-stage breast cancer.
- What could go wrong
- This is a phase II trial with 100 women, so it may not detect small differences in side effects or long-term cancer control. Partial breast radiation could miss cancer cells outside the treated area, and longer follow-up is needed to confirm it works as well as whole breast radiation.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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About 100 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Expected to start
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Sep 2026
An estimate. Start dates often move.
- Expected to finish
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Dec 2027
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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A government agency
The lead sponsor is a government body.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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45 years and older
- Sex
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Female participants only
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * Women aged ≥45 years. * Newly diagnosed, histologically confirmed breast carcinoma, including Invasive Ductal Carcinoma (IDC), Invasive Lobular Carcinoma (ILC), or Ductal Carcinoma in Situ (DCIS). * Early-stage disease (T1-T2, node-negative \[N0\]), with no evidence of distant metastasis. * Hormone receptor-positive disease (ER and/or PR positive). * HER2-positive disease, provided patients have received or are receiving appropriate HER2-targeted therapy, as per institutional practice. * Patients who have undergone breast-conserving surgery with no tumor on inked margins or no residual disease following re-excision. Exclusion Criteria: * Age \<45 years. * Multicentric disease. * Locally advanced or node-positive disease (T3-T4 and/or N+) or evidence of distant metastasis. * Lobular Carcinoma In Situ (LCIS). * Triple-negative breast cancer. * Positive surgical margins or incomplete breast-conserving surgery not suitable for re-excision. * Prior ipsilateral breast irradiation. * Non-breast malignancy within the past 5 years, except treated non-melanoma skin cancer or in-situ carcinoma. * Pregnancy or lactation at enrollment. * Inability to identify the tumor bed on planning Computed Tomography (CT), such as absence of surgical clips or seroma. * Unacceptable radiotherapy planning feasibility for the experimental technique according to protocol constraints.
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
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How to take part
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The places running it
3 sites in 3 countries. The list below names each one and where it is.
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The official record
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Department of Radiation Oncology, Cyberknife and Tomotherapy Center, Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC), Karachi, Pakistan
Karachi, Pakistan
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Department of Radiation Oncology, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
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Gulf International Cancer Centre City, Country: Abu Dhabi; UAE
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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