Active clinical trials for "Breast Neoplasms"

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women in Europe. Therefore, breast cancer has become a chronic disease and patients need to learn to live with it as well as with the adverse effects related to the disease itself or to the therapies used. As noted in the third "Plan cancer", pain is a major criterion in the quality of life of patients treated for breast cancer. Neuropathic pain was defined in 2011 by the international Association for the Study of Pain (I.A.S.P.) as the direct result of a lesion or disease affecting the somato-sensory system. Surgical treatment is often the first treatment of breast cancer. It can be conservative by performing a partial mastectomy (lumpectomy or quadrantectomy) or non-preservative by total mastectomy. Intercostobrachial neuralgia (NICB) or Post mastectomy painful Syndrome (MPRR) was first described by Wood in 1978 as "chronic pain beginning immediately or early after a mastectomy" Or a lumpectomy affecting the anterior thorax, armpit and/or arm in its upper half. These post-surgical pains are related to a lesion of the nerves in the breast area. In particular, the intercostobrachial nerve can be severed, stretched or crushed during surgery. Post-operative neuropathic pain in patients with breast cancer is underdiagnosed either by general practitioner or in a specialized environment. The diagnosis of neuropathic pain is performed during examination and clinical examination. Several scales allow to detect neuropathic pain but only the DN4 is recognized to be the most specific and sensitive scale. Patients do not always express this pain. They do not always reconcile with the surgery. Either because the pain occurs a long time after the surgery, or they find it normal to get hurt. These diagnostic difficulties cause a delay in setting up a suitable analgesic treatment. However, neuropathic pain responds poorly to common analgesics. Diagnosis, evaluation and early management of neuropathic pain are a priority in order to avoid their chronicization, to improve the quality of life of patients with breast cancer and to enable them to return to work quickly. We therefore assume that the diagnosis of early neuropathic pain at 2 months of surgery associated with initiation of appropriate topical treatment without the systemic effects of conventional oral treatments, would reduce the incidence of Chronic neuropathic pain 6 months after surgery.

Breast loss causes negative influence on women physically, psychologically and socially. Breast prosthesis can improve patient's figure externally, increase self-confidence, thus improving quality of life. The objective was to understand the knowledge regarding breast prostheses in breast cancer patients, evaluate the quality of life of patients wearing different types of breast prostheses and to compare the physical and psychological effects of different temperature-controlled breast prostheses on patients. The investigators designed a randomized control study in one cancer center in Shanghai. In the first 6 weeks of the study, self-adhesive breast prostheses and conventional breast prostheses were used in the intervention and control group, respectively. In the later 6 weeks, the breast prostheses used were switched into another kind. Several dimensional parameters were examined by different questionnaires at the end of both 6th and 12th week including scars and skin, survey of breast prosthesis knowledge, survey assessing the comfort and practicality of breast prostheses, quality of life instruments for cancer patients and body image scale. The investigators expected that women would be satisfied with the temperature-controlled breast prosthesis and were more willing to choose self-adhesive breast prostheses.

The purpose of this study is to explore the feasibility and acceptability of a brief, virtual, group-based cognitive-behavioral intervention for breast cancer survivors taking hormonal therapy. The intervention (STRIDE) aims to alleviate symptoms related to hormonal therapy or breast cancer, optimize medication-taking (i.e., adherence), and reduce distress.

To determine if a virtual reality simulation will reduce pain and anxiety in patients undergoing an ultrasound guided breast localization procedure (traditional wire, savi scout or a radiofrequency identification tag).

The Medical Research Council Framework for Developing and Evaluating Complex Interventions (MRC Framework) will be utilized to develop and evaluate an evidence-based tai chi intervention for managing the symptom cluster of fatigue-sleep disturbance-depression in breast cancer patients.

The study is aimed at Evaluation of the potential protective effect of Vitamin D in doxorubucin- induced toxicity in breast cancer patients. Proposal Steps: 100 Patients recruited from Alexandria Main University Hospital (AMUH), Oncology Unit are randomly assigned in to two groups: Control group (n=50) the patient will receive AC regimen (Doxorubucin & cyclophosphamide) for 4 cycles every 21 day (i.e. 3 months.) Vitamin D group (n=50) who will receive 4 Cycles AC regimen in addition to vitamin D (Bon One 0.5 microgram®) once daily. Echocardiography (Echo) will be done at base line and at the end of the treatment. Vitamin D, LDH, Troponin-t as well as IL-6 will be assessed at baseline and at the end of the study.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the feasibility of an mobile-health strategy to improve patient-reported symptoms, promote life-saving medication adherence, and encourage healthy lifestyle behaviors in early stage breast cancer survivors receiving adjuvant Aromatase inhibitors, while beginning to predict psycho-social and demographic characteristics of those who benefit most from this approach. This will provide preliminary experience and evidence for larger, randomized clinical trials evaluating this methodology, which will have immediate and scalable influence on cancer survivor ship.

This study evaluates the effects of progressive relaxation exercises on artralgia, quality of life and anxiety-deppression in breast cancer patients receiving aromatase inhibitor. Half of the participants will receive supervised progressive relaxing exercises, while other half will not receive any exercise but only advice about relaxing. Hypothesis: Progressive relaxation exercises improve the pain, quality of life and emotional status in breast cancer patients receiving aromatase inhibitor therapy.

This clinical trial investigates the effect and tolerability of cryotherapy and to evaluate whether they can prevent or improve taxane-induced sensory peripheral neuropathy in breast cancer patients. Cryosurgery, also known as cryoablation or cryotherapy, kills tumor cells by freezing them. Patients receiving cryotherapy during infusion of taxane therapy may have lower incidence of peripheral neuropathy, better physical function, and higher quality of life as compared to patients previously reported in literature.

Despite scientific, clinical and political incentives, alcohol and/or tobacco screening and brief intervention (SBI) services are poorly implemented in oncology settings. Motivational brief interventions are recognized as particularly effective in changing health behaviors, especially consumption behaviors. The motivational approach is more and more used in primary care setting but still few studies explore its effectiveness with breast cancer patients. This study aims to compare two intervention arms : educational advices intervention (EAI) versus brief motivational intervention (BMI) for alcohol and/or tobacco consumption in breast cancer women, during their treatment. In this pilot prospective randomized trial, various psychological and behavioral, variables are measured (alcohol and tobacco consumption, distress, anxiety and depressive disorders, quality of life, motivation for change, empowerment) before the brief intervention, and after 3 and 6 month.