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Filter by:The purpose of this study is to compare the changes in a proliferation biomarker in subjects receiving Anastrozole or Anastrozole/ZD1839 combination.
To screen women who are high risk for breast cancer with breast MRI, mammogram and random periareolar fine needle aspiration.
Study Aims 1. To measure the clinic response rates in patients with breast cancer more than 2 cm and/or lymph node positive breast cancer treated with 2-4 cycles of biweekly doxorubicin, cyclophosphamide with Granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) (days 4-13) followed by weekly carboplatin/nab-paclitaxel given for 3 weeks, followed by 1 week of rest, for a total of 9-12 doses. (Her-2 positive patients, in addition, will receive Trastuzumab weekly (12-16 doses) and Her-2 negative patients will receive Bevacizumab (6-8 doses) q 2 weeks). 2. To measure the microscopic pathological response rate of this regimen. 3. To measure toxicity and the delivered dose intensity of this regimen. 4. To assess the association between microscopic pathologic complete response and clinical complete response at the primary tumor site in these patients. 5. To determine whether the GM-CSF increases the post treatment dendritic cells (S100+) percentage in the tumor draining lymph node as compared to pretreatment S100+ cells. 6. To determine whether the patients with a higher percent S100+ have a better clinical, pathological response, Disease Free Survival (DFS), and overall Survival (OS). 7. To determine whether flow cytometry of dendritic cells performed post-treatment in blood sample shows an increase in dendritic cell population compared to pretreatment levels.
RATIONALE: Chemoprevention is the use of certain drugs to keep cancer from forming, growing, or coming back. Estrogen can cause the growth of breast cancer cells. Hormone therapy using arzoxifene or tamoxifen may prevent breast cancer by lowering the amount of estrogen the body makes. The use of arzoxifene or tamoxifen may keep breast cancer from forming in women at high risk for breast cancer. PURPOSE: This randomized phase II trial is studying arzoxifene to see how well it works compared to tamoxifen or a placebo in preventing breast cancer in premenopausal women at high risk for breast cancer.
RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as epirubicin, work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. Giving epirubicin before surgery may make the tumor smaller and reduce the amount of normal tissue that needs to be removed. PURPOSE: This phase II trial is studying how well epirubicin works in treating women who are undergoing surgery for stage I, stage II, or stage III breast cancer.
Endurance exercise such as walking has been shown to help breast cancer survivors maintain their energy and quality of life while they are receiving chemotherapy, but there have not been any studies on weight training. In this study, the researchers want to determine if a combined program of endurance and weight training exercises is better than a standard amount of endurance exercise or even a higher amount of endurance exercise in breast cancer survivors receiving chemotherapy. The study will be an experimental design in which the researchers have breast cancer survivors participate in one of the three different exercise programs. The researchers' main interest is in patient rated physical functioning and quality of life, which they will measure before and after the exercise programs by asking participants how they feel on various rating scales. The researchers will also measure their aerobic fitness on a treadmill and how strong they are by having them lift weights.
Women with breast cancer and other gynecologic cancers often suffer significant distress and disability from their disease. A practice of meditation-based stress reduction and cognitive-affective-behavioral learning may help women with these conditions decrease their suffering and improve their quality of life.
The purpose of this study is to identify patients with persisting tumor cells after standard epirubicin-containing treatment to test a non-cross resistant chemotherapy regimen (docetaxel) for these patients, and to explore the analysis of disseminated tumor cells in bone marrow as a surrogate marker for clinical outcome.
Eligible patients will be post-menopausal hormone receptor- and lymph node-positive females who recently underwent primary surgery for breast cancer. Patients will be randomized to letrozole (2.5 mg per day for 5 years) vs anastrozole (1 mg per day for 5 years). Follow up will occur for 5 years after the completion of enrollment for survival and disease status updates.
This study is to measure the extent of tumor shrinkage when Letrozole and Zoledronic Acid are given before surgery to newly diagnosed post-menopausal women with early breast cancer