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Filter by:This study will assess the relationship between fulvestrant dose and efficacy, and determine the dosing regimen as a second line therapy for Japanese postmenopausal women with oestrogen receptor positive advanced breast cancer.
This study will characterize risk factors associated with breast cancer development in some patients. In particular, it will examine the role of insulin in breast cancer in patients with and without a family history of the disease. Women 30 to 70 years old who have been diagnosed with breast cancer and matched control healthy subjects with and without a family history of breast cancer may be eligible for this study. Participants undergo the following procedures: - Cancer-genetic counseling session, including family history, risk assessment, genetic testing for BRCA1 and BRCA2 (if criteria is met), interpretation of results and management options - Medical history, including questions about symptoms or diseases, reproductive history, use of oral contraceptives, body weight, exercise, lifestyle, and demographic issues - Drawing of family tree - Examination of medical records - Blood drawing for genetic and other tests - CT scan of the abdomen (approximate time < 1 minute) - Filling out questionnaires
After surgery, sensitization and hyperexcitability of central nervous system result in acute and long lasting postoperative pain. It has been shown that N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors antagonist (such as ketamine) prevent this adverse neuroplasticity and potentiate analgesic drugs efficacy. Polyamines (putrescine, spermidine, spermine) are essential components of cells functioning and are also known as allosteric modulators of NMDA receptors. In animal studies, polyamine-free diet has confirmed these antinociceptive properties. This research aims at evaluating anti hyperalgesic properties of polyamine-free diet in women operated on breast cancer versus kétamine
RATIONALE: Vaccines made from peptides may help the body build an effective immune response to kill tumor cells. Giving booster vaccinations may make a stronger immune response and kill more tumor cells. PURPOSE: This phase I trial is studying the side effects of vaccine therapy in treating patients with stage III or stage IV breast cancer.
RATIONALE: Monoclonal antibodies, such as trastuzumab, can block tumor growth in different ways. Some block the ability of tumor cells to grow and spread. Others find tumor cells and help kill them or carry tumor-killing substances to them. Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as irinotecan, work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. Giving trastuzumab together with irinotecan may kill more tumor cells. PURPOSE: This phase II trial is studying how well giving trastuzumab together with irinotecan works in treating patients with HER2/neu positive metastatic breast cancer.
RATIONALE: Questionnaires that assess symptoms caused by cancer and cancer therapy may help improve the ability to plan treatment for patients with invasive cancer to help them live longer and more comfortably. PURPOSE: This clinical trial is studying symptoms caused by cancer and cancer therapy in patients with invasive breast, lung, prostate, or colorectal cancer.
RATIONALE: Exercise and dietary counseling may improve physical activity, nutrition, and quality of life in older long-term cancer survivors who are overweight. PURPOSE: This randomized clinical trial is studying two different schedules of exercise and dietary counseling to compare how well they work in improving physical activity, nutrition, and quality of life in older long-term cancer survivors who are overweight.
The purpose of this study is to determine the ORR associated with Doxil in combination with carboplatin in HER2- (negative) MBC (and with Herceptin in HER2+ MBC).
RATIONALE: Monoclonal antibodies, such as trastuzumab and pertuzumab, can block tumor growth in different ways. Some block the ability of tumor cells to grow and spread. Others find tumor cells and help kill them or carry tumor-killing substances to them. Giving trastuzumab together with pertuzumab may kill more tumor cells. PURPOSE: This phase II trial is studying how well giving trastuzumab together with pertuzumab works in treating patients with unresectable locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer that did not respond to previous trastuzumab.
RATIONALE: Biological therapy, such as cellular adoptive immunotherapy, may stimulate the immune system in different ways and stop tumor cells from growing. PURPOSE: This phase I trial is studying how well cellular adoptive immunotherapy works in treating a patient who has undergone a donor stem cell transplant for breast cancer that has spread to the lung.