Active clinical trials for "Breast Neoplasms"

The primary purpose of our study is to evaluate whether gemcitabine as a single agent is superior to observation in improving progression-free survival (PFS) in patients with metastatic breast cancer (MBC) who achieved disease control with an initial six cycles of PG as their first-line treatment

Survival in young patients with cancer has increased and also have increased the adverse long-term side effects of chemotherapy, there is a large number of women who experience loss of ovarian function without accomplishing their reproductive desire due to gonadotoxic treatment. The ovarian reserve determine the response to controlled ovarian hyperstimulation in fertility preservation treatments as well as in assisted reproduction techniques. Improving this reserve by avoiding its depletion during the process could result in increase fertility rates after cancer treatment. Collecting follicles during tamoxifen treatment would increase the number of cryopreserved oocytes and thus rise the potential ovarian reserve in these patients, which is reduced due to age, chemotherapy and length of treatments. The aim of this study is to retrieve viable mature oocytes during adjuvancy with tamoxifen in breast cancer patients to improve the probability of subsequent pregnancy.

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in many countries: in Italy about 48.000 new breast cancers are diagnosed every year and, despite improvements in diagnosis and therapy, about 13.000 women die every year for this disease . About 6-7% of breast cancer patients are metastatic at diagnosis , while the majority of patients with stage IV has a previous history of breast cancer that has already been treated. According to various prognostic factors (tumor size, lymph nodes involvement, grading, hormone receptors status, HER-2 status), in the worst-case scenario, more than 30% of node-negative breast cancer patients and more than 70% of node-positive patients relapse2. The evolution of metastatic breast cancer has changed considerably in the last years with the approval of new drugs. In fact, already in 2003 Giordano et al showed that the prognosis of metastatic breast cancer patients was improved significantly from 1970's to 2000 with a median survival of 15 months in the early 1970's compared with 60 months in the last 1990's. This significant survival gain was obtained with introduction of new drugs as hormonal, chemotherapeutic and biological agents. The greater availability of drugs has led to an increase in number of lines of treatment receiving by metastatic breast cancer patients. However, there are few published data on actual duration of metastatic breast cancer treatments. Moreover, there is no evidence to support a real impact on survival of treatments beyond the second-third line. Recently, a retrospective analysis of about 199 metastatic breast cancer patients treated with chemotherapy showed that tumor subtype is associated with the duration and number of lines of chemotherapy (for example HER positive versus "triple-negative" patients) .

The study purpose is to observe which neoadjuvant chemotherapy regimens is the better for invasive breast cancer. The neoadjuvant chemotherapy regimen is sustained anthracyclines plus taxanes or from anthracyclines plus taxanes to vinorelbine plus cisplatinum.

A Multi-center, III Phase,Randomized Controlled Clinical Study of Capecitabine Metronomic Chemotherapy After Standard Adjuvant Chemotherapy in Operable Triple Negative Breast Cancer

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the role of patients' response expectations for nocebo side effects, quality of life and adherence during adjuvant endocrine treatment (AET). Furthermore, this study analyses the effects of a structured treatment information on patients' satisfaction with information, response expectations, knowledge and adherence.

RATIONALE: Learning about the effect of metformin hydrochloride in breast density of women with early-stage breast cancer may help plan treatment. PURPOSE: This trial studies changes in breast density in patients with early-stage breast cancer treated with metformin hydrochloride or placebo on CAN-NCIC-MA.32.

Human epidermalgrowth factor receptor-2(HER2) negative Luminal B subtype breast cancer patients are included. After 4 cycles of Capecitabine combined with Docetaxel(XT) protocol neoadjuvant chemotherapy ,those who reach partial response(PR) but not pathological complete response(pCR) are randomly divided into the group treated with XT protocol and the group with Capecitabine combined with Epirubicin and Cyclophosphamide(XEC) protocol ,then compare the disease free survival(DFS) and overall survival(OS) of two subgroup.

The study is designed to evaluate the effectiveness of liquid crystal contact thermography in detecting pathological changes in female breasts compared to standard diagnostic methods.

People treated for breast cancer often live with an ongoing fear that the cancer will recur. This fear may develop and impact on their mental health and quality of life. The Mini-AFTERc study is a pilot trial of a brief cognitive behavioural communication intervention, designed to reduce fear of cancer recurrence (FCR) in breast cancer patients. This pilot trial aims to determine the acceptability and practicality of introducing the Mini-AFTERc intervention into everyday practice, and inform the development of a full randomised controlled trial.