Personalized chemo decisions for young HR+/HER2- breast cancer patients
Official title: Optimal Personalized Treatment of Early Breast Cancer Using Multi-parameter Analysis: Focus on YOUNGer Women
Run by Unicancer · NCT07106632 · Data updated 2026-11-12
This trial tests whether using a genomic test can safely spare some premenopausal patients from chemotherapy in favor of endocrine therapy alone.
Quick facts
| Phase | Phase 3 |
|---|---|
| Study type | Interventional |
| Ages | 35 Years to 45 Years |
| Sex | Women only |
| Enrollment | 3380 (estimated) |
| Sponsor | Unicancer Academic / other |
| Drugs / interventions | chemotherapy |
| Locations | 105 sites (Brussels and 104 other locations) |
| Status | Recruiting |
| Started | June 26, 2026 |
| Main results expected | August 15, 2031 |
| Study ends | August 15, 2038 |
| Registry record updated | July 31, 2026 |
| Trial ID | NCT07106632 on ClinicalTrials.gov |
Is this trial a fit for you?
✓Likely a good fit
Premenopausal women aged 35 or older with invasive HR-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer who have had surgery and can provide tumor tissue for genomic testing.
✕Probably not a fit
Patients whose cancer biology indicates high risk despite genomic testing may still require chemotherapy and may not benefit from de‑escalation.
A plain-English reading of the study's rules. Only the study team can confirm whether you qualify.
What this trial studies
In this phase 3 trial, premenopausal women with HR+/HER2- breast cancer are assigned treatment based on a central PAM50 genomic score. Patients with higher risk by the test may receive chemo-endocrine therapy, while those with lower risk receive endocrine therapy alone. The standard-of-care control arm uses chemo-endocrine therapy. Primary outcomes focus on relapse-free survival and quality of life, with secondary measures including treatment safety and patient-reported outcomes. The study aims to see if risk-stratified, test-directed treatment maintains efficacy while reducing treatment burden for young patients.
Why it matters
Potential benefit: If successful, patients at lower genomic risk could avoid chemotherapy and its side effects without compromising cancer control.
How similar studies have gone: Previous risk-stratified approaches in postmenopausal patients have informed practice, but similar strategies in high-risk premenopausal populations are less proven.
Who can join: the full rules
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Inclusion Criteria:
1. Patient must have signed a written informed consent prior to any trial specific procedures. When the patient is physically unable to give their written consent, a trusted person of their choice, independent from the investigator or the sponsor, can confirm in signing the patient's consent;
2. . Premenopausal defined by patient that are not post-menopaused
3. Female
4. Age ≥ 35 years
5. Diagnosis of invasive HR-positive (ER≥10% of tumour cells stained positive and any PR expression) HER2-negative (IHC score 0-1+ or 2+ with negative/non-amplified ISH) invasive breast cancer; ER and HER2 determination will be assessed according to latest ASCO/CAP or national guidelines;
6. Breast and axillary surgery completed ≤ 12 weeks from study entry and randomization;
7. Availability of a Formalin-Fixed Paraffin-Embedded (FFPE) tumour sample from surgery to perform Prosigna® analysis or slides.
Note: in case of receipt of neoadjuvant endocrine therapy the Prosigna® test must be done on the baseline biopsy. Performing the test on the surgical piece or on on-treatment biopsy is not permitted.
8. Tumour size and axillary lymph node status. One of the following must apply:
1. 1-3 lymph nodes involved AND any invasive tumour size.
2. node negative (including micrometastases in at least 1 node \[i.e. deposit \>0.2-2mm diameter\]) AND invasive tumour size ≥ 50mm.
9. Multiple ipsilateral breast cancers are permitted provided that at least one tumour meets the tumour size and axillary lymph node entry criteria, and none meet any of the exclusion criteria.
10. Bilateral breast cancers are permitted provided the tumour(s) in one breast meets the eligibility criteria and the other, contralateral tumour is not ER negative and/or HER2 positive and not clinically significant, defined by both of the following:
1. The contralateral tumour does not fulfil the tumour size and lymph node eligibility criteria required for trial entry; i.e. the following are not acceptable:
.i. presence of lymph node macro-metastases; .ii. tumour size ≥50mm when there is no lymph node involvement.
2. The treating physician does not consider that the characteristics of the contralateral tumour alone justify consideration of adjuvant chemotherapy.
11. Fitness to receive adjuvant chemotherapy, as judged by the treating physician;
12. Short term pre-surgical treatment with endocrine therapy, including in combination with non-cytotoxic agents, is allowed providing that the duration of treatment did not exceed 8 weeks;
13. Patients affiliated with or a beneficiary of the local social security system, health social security system, or other local regulatory requirements
14. Patients must agree to use adequate contraception methods for the duration of study treatment and for the duration specified in the SmPC after completing the treatment, unless agreed with the treatment physician the safety of attempt a pregnancy, which could be possible after at least 18 months of endocrine therapy.
Note : patient with extracapsular nodular transgression are eligible. NOTE: If neoadjuvant endocrine therapy was received, the Prosigna® test must be realized on the baseline biopsy. Performing the test on the surgical specimen or on biopsy taken during treatment is not permitted.
NOTE: Re-excision or complementary mastectomy for close/positive surgical margins should be postponed after chemotherapy completion, if chemotherapy is given; breast reconstruction is allowed after trial entry.
NOTE: The use of approved adjuvant targeted agents (abemaciclib, ribociclib and olaparib) combined to adjuvant endocrine therapy is allowed according to local practice recommendations and availability.
Exclusion Criteria:
* 1\. Postmenopausal women. Women who fulfil the following criteria at trial entry will be considered postmenopausal:
1. Age \>45 and natural amenorrhoea of at least 1 year's duration.
2. Bilateral surgical oophorectomy.
3. For amenorrhoea not fulfilling the above criteria the diagnosis of postmenopausal status should be supported by hormone measurement: FSH levels must be \> 25IU/L with low oestradiol (i.e. within the locally defined postmenopausal range), in the event of doubt measured on 2 occasions preferably 4-6 weeks apart. This applies to women who have undergone hysterectomy without bilateral surgical oophorectomy and are age \<60; those ≥60 may be considered postmenopausal.
NOTE: Hormonal contraception will suppress FSH and oestradiol levels. In those taking oral contraception, levels will recover rapidly on discontinuation. Depo-Provera injectable contraception lasts many months: all women receiving this agent should be considered premenopausal.
2\. Stage IV breast cancer; 3. Start of adjuvant systemic treatment (except for neoadjuvant endocrine therapy for a duration ≤ 8 weeks) before trial entry\*; 4. Previous diagnosis of malignancy except:
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1. Previous ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) or pleomorphic lobular carcinoma in situ (LCIS) of the breast managed by local treatment only;
2. Previous in situ carcinoma as defined by the International Classification of Diseases for Oncology (ICD-O) including basal cell carcinoma of skin and cervical intraepithelial neoplasia;
3. Previous invasive malignancy managed by local treatment only AND disease-free for at least 10 years.
5\. Patients enrolled in another therapeutic trial within 30 days of inclusion; 6. Presence of concomitant medical and/or psychiatric comorbidities and/or social problems that might prevent informed consent, treatment compliance or follow up; 7. Person deprived of their liberty or under protective custody or guardianship.
8\. Pregnant women or women who are breast-feeding at inclusion. 9. Patients unwilling or unable to comply with the protocol for the duration of the study including scheduled visits, treatment plan, laboratory tests and other study procedures because of geographic, familial, social, or psychological reasons.
\*Trial entry is dated from of the date the participant signs the consent form or provides remote verbal consent, whichever is earlier.
Where it's running
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Centre Hospitalier d'Auxerre
Auxerre, France Recruiting -
Sainte Catherine - Institut du Cancer Avignon-Provence
Avignon, France Recruiting -
Centre Hospitalier Simone Veil de Beauvais
Beauvais, France Recruiting -
Avicenne Hospital (APHP)
Bobigny, France Recruiting -
Clinique Pasteur - CFRO
Brest, France Recruiting -
Centre Hospitalier Métropole Savoie
Chambéry, France Recruiting
Show 44 more locations
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CH Cholet
Cholet, France Recruiting -
Centre Léonard De Vinci
Dechy, France Recruiting -
Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal de Fréjus Saint Raphael
Fréjus, France Recruiting -
Groupe Hospitalier Mutualiste de Grenoble
Grenoble, France Recruiting -
Centre Léon Bérard
Lyon, France Recruiting -
Hôpital Privé du Confluent
Nantes, France Recruiting -
Centre Hospitalier de Pau
Pau, France Recruiting -
Institut Godinot
Reims, France Recruiting -
CLCC Eugène Marquis
Rennes, France Recruiting -
Centre Henri Becquerel
Rouen, France Recruiting -
CHU de Saint Etienne
Saint-Priest-en-Jarez, France Recruiting -
Hôpitaux du Léman
Thonon-les-Bains, France Recruiting -
Oncopole Claudius Regaud, IUCT-Oncopole
Toulouse, France Recruiting -
Clinique Pasteur
Toulouse, France Recruiting -
CHU Tours
Tours, France Recruiting -
Centre de cancérologie Les Dentellières
Valenciennes, France Recruiting -
Institut Gustave Roussy
Villejuif, France Recruiting -
Institut Jules Bordet
Brussels, Belgium Not yet recruiting -
Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc
Brussels, Belgium Not yet recruiting -
Grand Hôpital de Charleroi
Charleroi, Belgium Not yet recruiting -
CHU Helora Hôpital de La Louvière - Site Jolimont
Haine-Saint-Paul, Belgium Not yet recruiting -
CHU UCL Namur - Site Sainte Elisabeth
Namur, Belgium Not yet recruiting -
Clinique Saint Pierre
Ottignies, Belgium Not yet recruiting -
CHR Verviers
Verviers, Belgium Not yet recruiting -
Centre Hospitalier de la Côte Basque
Bayonne, France Not yet recruiting -
Hôpital de Blois
Blois, France Not yet recruiting -
Clinique Tivoli
Bordeaux, France Not yet recruiting -
Centre Hospitalier Fleyriat Bourg en Bresse
Bourg-en-Bresse, France Not yet recruiting -
Groupement Hospitalier Est - Hospices Civils de Lyon
Bron, France Not yet recruiting -
Centre Francois Baclesse
Caen, France Not yet recruiting -
Pôle Santé République
Clermont-Ferrand, France Not yet recruiting -
Centre Jean Perrin
Clermont-Ferrand, France Not yet recruiting -
Centre Georges François Leclerc
Dijon, France Not yet recruiting -
CH Annecy Genevois
Épagny Metz-Tessy, France Not yet recruiting -
Centre Hospitalier Le Mans - Centre De Cancérologie De La Sarthe
Le Mans, France Not yet recruiting -
Centre Oscar Lambret
Lille, France Not yet recruiting -
CHU de Limoges
Limoges, France Not yet recruiting -
Hôpital de la croix Rousse - Hospices Civils de Lyon
Lyon, France Not yet recruiting -
Hôpital Européen
Marseille, France Not yet recruiting -
Hôpital Privé Clairval
Marseille, France Not yet recruiting -
Institut Paoli Calmettes
Marseille, France Not yet recruiting -
Hôpital Privé Nancy Lorraine
Nancy, France Not yet recruiting -
Hôpital Lyon Sud-Hospices Civils de Lyon
Pierre-Bénite, France Not yet recruiting -
Hôpital NOVO - Site de Pontoise
Pontoise, France Not yet recruiting
+55 more sites. See ClinicalTrials.gov for the full list.
Study contacts
- Principal investigator: Ines Vaz-Luis — Gustave Roussy, Cancer Campus, Grand Paris
- Study coordinator: Aure Vanhecke
- Email: a-vanhecke@unicancer.fr
- Phone: +33662962532
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How to take part
- Review the eligibility criteria above with your treating physician.
- Check the official listing on ClinicalTrials.gov for the latest contact details and recruitment status.
- Contact the study coordinator or principal investigator to ask for pre-screening. Pre-screening is free and never obligates you to enroll.