A Novel Method of Clipped Axillary Lymph Node Localization Post Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Breast Cancer Patients .

Breast Cancer Female Clinical Trial

Official title:

Feasibility of a Novel Method of Axilla Staging by Using Ultrasound Visible Clips to Mark the Involved Axillary Lymph Nodes Before Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Breast Cancer Patients

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Active, not recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03878017
• Other study ID #: 2017/2037
• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: March 1, 2017
• Est. completion date: October 30, 2020

Study information

• Verified date: February 2020
• Source: KK Women's and Children's Hospital
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

to determine the feasibility of a novel technique of localization of clipped LN post neoadjuvant chemotherapy

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Enrollment: 15
• Est. completion date: October 30, 2020
• Est. primary completion date: October 30, 2020
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Female
• Age group: 21 Years to 80 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• breast cancer patients with involved axillary LN <3,

• going for neoadjuvant chemotherapy

Exclusion Criteria:

-stage 4 breast cancer patients

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Breast Cancer Female
• Breast Neoplasms

Intervention

Procedure:
• skin marking of clip axillary lymph node for localisation
to determine the feasibility of skin marking to localize clipped ln

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Singapore	KK Women's and Children's Hospital	Singapore

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
KK Women's and Children's Hospital

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Singapore, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	retrieval rates of the clipped node using this novel technique		at an average of a year