Active clinical trials for "Breast Neoplasms"

This randomized pilot clinical trial studies omega-3 fatty acid in reducing cancer-related fatigue in breast cancer survivors. Supplementation with omega-3 fatty acid may help reduce cancer-related fatigue in breast cancer survivors.

The purpose of this prospective observational registry is to monitor safety of eribulin in routine clinical practice. Additionally, this study will also assess the effectiveness of eribulin in real-life settings.

It is the investigators hypothesis that exemestane (EXE) metabolism is an important source of the inter-individual variation in EXE metabolic profiles and that polymorphisms in EXE-metabolizing enzymes may potentially play a role in affecting EXE therapeutic efficacy and toxicity. The goals of this clinical study are to (1) establish EXE metabolism profile kinetics, and (2) determine whether correlations exist in vivo between metabolizing enzyme genotype and urinary EXE metabolite profiles in women being treated with EXE. Together, these studies will allow us to fully characterize functionally-relevant polymorphisms in the EXE-metabolizing enzyme pathway that are potentially important in EXE clinical efficacy.

This multi-center, prospective observational study will evaluate the treatment patterns, and the safety in patients with HER2-positive (HER2+) metastatic breast cancer (MBC). Eligible patients will have an initial metastatic breast cancer diagnosis that has not been previously treated with systemic therapy; patients may be enrolled up to 6 months after the diagnosis. Data will be collected for up to 8 years.

Patients with breast cancer, who are treated with curative intent, have a combination of surgery (excision of the tumor) and a course of medical therapy (chemotherapy or endocrine treatment). Both treatments are associated with significant side effects. Chemotherapy is associated with nausea, vomiting, hair loss and bone marrow suppression, whereas endocrine therapy is associated with arthritis and menopausal symptoms. Patients taking either chemotherapy or endocrine treatment may experience a range of side effects. The range and severity of side effects experienced vary from patient to patient. Little or nothing is known about the reason for this difference. The aim of the investigators proposal is to develop a pretreatment test to identify patients who are likely to undergo moderate to severe side effects, and therefore help doctors and patients plan and optimize medical therapy. The pretreatment test will be based on identifying a metabolic profile which can differentiate those patients who are likely to have severe or moderate side effects from those with either no or mild side effects. To do this, the investigators will take urine and blood samples from patients before and after the administration of endocrine treatment or chemotherapy and generate metabolic profiles. Furthermore, the investigators aim to gain an understanding into why side effects experienced between different patients are so variable. To do this the investigators plan to perform cytokine analysis, targeted genetic analysis and pharmaokinetic analysis on blood sample collected from patients before and after treatment has commenced. Patients who have planned surgical excision of tumor and are recommended to receive medical therapy before or after surgery would be invited to join the study. Each patient will be required to make additional visits to the hospital to complete questionnaires regarding side effects experienced and for sample (urine and blood) collection. The investigators plan to recruit 168 patients.

Current qualitative methods of assessing the aesthetic result following breast reconstruction are known to be poor. The investigators believe that real time digital video footage followed by expert panel review would be a superior method of qualitative assessment of breast cancer reconstruction aesthetics. This has never been studied before.

This retrospective observational study is designed to assess the response to treatment with fulvestrant at a dose of 500 mg/month with a loading dose of 500 mg (LD-500), in terms of progression free survival (PFS), overall survival (OS), and clinical benefit rate (CBR), in post-menopausal women with Advanced Breast Cancer and estrogen receptor positive, who were treated with this medicinal product and at said dose after having progressed with a previous anti-estrogen therapy. During this study, a retrospective data collection will be carried out using the information contained in the Clinical History of said patients, provided that the treatment with fulvestrant at a dose of 500 mg and LD-500.

The purpose of this study is to confirm the safety profile such as the frequency of serious adverse events or any unexpected adverse events and overall efficacy of Faslodex for long term treatment in daily clinical practice.

Persistent pain, sensory disturbances, lymphedema and functional impairment are frequently occurring late effects of breast cancer treatment. The investigators have previously published data on 3253 women treated for breast cancer in Denmark in the period 2005-2006. Very few studies have examined how these late effects change in time. The aim of this study is to examine in a well defined patient population any change in the prevalence of persistent pain, sensory disturbances, lymphedema and functional impairment, as well as risk factor profile.

This study looks at the benefit of adding acupuncture to nutrition education for weight loss in women with early stage breast cancer post-chemotherapy.