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Filter by:Background: Some women have a high chance of developing breast and ovarian cancer because of a change in a gene that is passed within a family from one generation to the next. These women with hereditary breast and ovarian cancer (HBOC) have to make hard choices about tests and treatments. Researchers want to study how to help women to feel ready to make those choices. A kind of writing exercise might help if it is done before genetic counseling. This writing exercise is called a self-affirmation (SA) exercise. It may lead to better communication during counseling and better behavioral outcomes. Objective: To see if an SA exercise done before HBOC genetic counseling could improve client communication and behavior. Eligibility: - Clients: Adult female >=18 years of age with initial appointment for HBOC risk with genetic counselor at St. Luke's Health System - Genetic Counselors: Genetic counselors >=18 years of age providing genetic counseling to clients at risk for HBOC Design: Clients will be screened by phone prior to their genetic counseling appointment. They will arrive 15 minutes early to their appointment. They will do a 10 to 15 minute survey and writing exercise. This includes questions about: - Things that are important to them - How they are feeling prior to the appointment After their genetic counseling appointment, they will take a 10- to 15-minute follow-up survey. It can be in the office or online. It will include questions about: - How they felt about the writing exercise - How they felt about their genetic counseling - If they had cancer - If they were offered and had genetic testing Genetic counselor participants will take a 2 to 5 minute survey after each session with a client in the study. This will include questions about how the client was in the session. They also will take a 10 to 15 minute survey at the end of the study. It will be about their opinions on the process of having their clients complete the writing exercise.
This a multicenter, open-label, phase II clinical trial to assess the efficacy of pembrolizumab in combination with eribulin in female patients older than 18 years old with hormone receptor-(HR)positive/HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer (MBC) previously treated with at least one, but not more than two, prior chemotherapeutic regimens for treatment of locally recurrent and/or metastatic disease. Prior therapy must have included an anthracycline and a taxane and prior anti-hormonal therapy is mandatory. The number of patients to be included is 44 patients at 11 sites. All eligible patients will be treated with MK3475 (pembrolizumab) 200 mg on day 1 of each 21-day cycle and eribulin 1.23 mg/m2 (equivalent to eribulin mesylate at 1.4 mg/m2) on days 1 and 8 of every 21-day cycle.
In this study, PLD, an anthracycline encapsulated in stealth liposomes, which are believed to efficiently deliver the doxorubicin within the tumour mass with less toxicity compared with standard doxorubicin formulation was used. The study aimed to determine whether the combination of PLD-docetaxel would increase tumour response in patients with breast cancer.
Radioisotopic and wire localizations suffer from several limitations. These techniques add another procedure prior to surgery, can be uncomfortable and entail additional cost. The aim is to develop a novel technique of breast tumor localization using preoperative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and breast optical scanning. Patients with diagnosis of breast cancer who have had a preoperative MRI and 3D optical scans are included. Optical scanning is done preoperatively and intraoperatively after tumor localization was marked on the breast using radioisotopic technique. The MRI is then adjusted with the intraoperative optical scan to match the breast position at the time of surgery. The investigators evaluate the efficiency for localization of breast lesion of the novel technique by comparison with radiosiotopic technique.
PATH is a research study for cancer survivors to help participants to become more active. Studies suggested an association between inactivity and cancer. The investigators created new novel ways and technologies that may help participants to become more active. The three methods the investigators are studying are: 1) participant become active on her/his own; educational material will be provided; 2) working with a programmed health coach over the phone via text messages; and 3) using digital voice assist to help participant become more active. The digital voice assist will be delivered via Amazon Alexa on Echo speaker (it is the famous intelligent voice that you see in superball commercial by Alec Baldwin). This study is funded by the State of Maryland.
MEDIRAD-BRACE aims to determine the relationship between 3D dose distributions in cardiac structures and the risk of acute coronary events (ACE) and other cardiac complications in breast cancer (BC) patients to develop and externally validate multivariable Normal Tissue Complication Probability (NTCP) models to assess the risk of ACE in individual patients based on cardiac dose metrics in the first 10 years after BC radiotherapy.
The purpose of this study is to determine whether pectoral nerves blocks（PECS） would reduces the opioid consumption during the surgery and postoperative pain after breast cancer surgery.
The purpose of this study was to specifically compare the long term patient satisfaction of the abdomen after DIEAP flap procedure with conventional abdominoplasty.
The aim of the BRAGATSTON study is to provide a low cost tool for measuring CAC in breast cancer patients, thereby identifying patients at increased risk of CVD. Breast cancer patients and doctors can act upon this, by adapting the treatment and/or by adopting cardioprotective interventions. Hereby, the burden of CVD in breast cancer survivors can be reduced and better overall survival rates can be achieved.
The purpose of this study is to determine whether functional games can be used to improve the adherence and quality of life of breast cancer patients with chemotherapy.