Active clinical trials for "Breast Neoplasms"

This is a multi-institution double-blind placebo-controlled trial whose main objective is to determine if 6 months of letrozole (2.5 mg daily) can reduce proliferation as assessed by Ki-67 in high risk postmenopausal women on systemic hormone replacement therapy who have random periareolar fine needle aspiration (RPFNA) evidence of hyperplasia with atypia or borderline atypia, and a minimum Ki-67 of >1.5%. The primary hypothesis is that proliferation and expression of other estrogen response genes will be favorably modulated by six months of letrozole relative to placebo without substantially increasing hot flashes or worsening overall quality of life.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the usual and the reverse sequence of an anthracycline followed by a taxane in locally advanced breast cancer.

This is a phase II study. In patients with node-negative invasive breast cancer or carcinoma in situ treated by breast conserving surgery, postoperative whole breast irradiation with inversely intensity modulated radiotherapy and a simultaneous integrated boost is technically feasible. The aim of this study is to evaluate the radiation toxicity, cosmetic outcome and local control rate in a single center

Partial breast irradiation (PBI) is becoming more widespread in the treatment of early breast cancer in patients at low risk of relapse as pathological and clinical findings have demonstrated that most breast cancer recurrences after BCS occur close to the tumour bed. In our phase II prospective study PBI is administered with high-dose-rate brachytherapy in patients with low-risk early-stage breast cancer. Patients receive 4 Gy twice a day for 4 days (total dose 32 Gy).

In an open-label randomised phase III-trial patients with metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer naive to chemotherapy with normal organ function and WHO performance status < 3 are randomised to receive either docetaxel 100 mg/m2 i.v. plus trastuzumab 6 mg/kg (8 mg/kg loading dose) q 3 weeks or vinorelbine 30 or 35 mg/m2 days 1+8 plus trastuzumab 6 mg/kg (8 mg/kg loading dose) q 3 weeks. Primary endpoint is time to progression. Secondary endpoints include overall survival, time to treatment failure, response rate, duration of response and toxicity. The study hypothesis is that docetaxel is more efficient than vinorelbine but also more toxic.

Elderly, postmenopausal women with breast cancer on aromatase inhibitors are at increased risk of developing bone loss and osteoporosis. We postulate that in elderly, osteopenic postmenopausal women who are on aromatase inhibitor therapy, bisphosphonate therapy will (1) prevent bone loss at clinically relevant sites, such as the spine and hip and (2) decrease bone turnover.

Taxotere® can induce nails changes like dyschromia, hematoma, lines of Beau-Reil (signing the stop of the epithelial proliferation), abscess, or pain. In this context, this randomized, monocentric phase III trial evaluates the cryotherapy, using frozen glove, in the prevention of nails toxicity induced by Taxotere® in patient treated for breast or prostate cancer. Primary objective: Demonstrate a reduction of the nails toxicity using frozen glove during chemotherapy with Taxotere®. Secondary objectives: Analysis of time of protection against onycholysis Estimation of the efficiency of cryotherapy, and impact on quality of life Tolerance and compliance of the frozen glove

This study correlated changes from baseline in Ki-67, an immunohistochemical marker of cell proliferation, with changes from baseline in tumor uptake of 3'-deoxy-3'[18F]-fluorothymidine (18F-FLT) following the first cycle of treatment with standard of care neo-adjuvant therapy in participants with breast cancer.

To study the pharmacokinetic profile of the therapeutic schedule in order to demonstrate absence of negative interactions among the 3 drugs administered

The study purpose is to help in the developement of 3 dimensional breast ultrasound imaging.