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Filter by:This is a 6-state randomized controlled trial (RCT) that uses a behavioral intervention to enhance parenting skills for school age children when a mother is recently diagnosed with early stage breast cancer. Efficacy analyses will include measures of the child's and mother's psychosocial adjustment, including enhanced parenting quality and skills related to the cancer.
Traditionally metastatic breast cancer patients are not offered loco-regional treatment except in cases of fungation or bleeding. However, scientific evidence for such omission of loco-regional treatment in metastatic breast cancer patients is lacking. On one hand, studies have shown that removal of primary tumor at times leads to complete disappearance of metastases and improvement in survival in renal cell carcinoma patients. However, such studies have never been performed in other solid tumors. On the other hand, there is a strong body of evidence in experimental settings that show that removal of primary tumor allows growth of metastasis. There is lack of similar data in humans in clinical settings. Offering loco-regional treatment in metastatic breast cancer patients in a setting of randomized controlled trial will help in improving survival of such patients and understanding the natural history of breast cancer.
In this trial we will evaluate ABI-007 with gemcitabine and epirubicin, utilizing the biweekly pegfilgrastim support, in order to further improve upon the effectiveness and favorable toxicity of this triplet.
This trial evaluates the novel combination of docetaxel with imatinib as first or second line therapy in advanced breast cancer with the aim of achieving higher effectiveness and potentially reducing side effects.
This protocol will evaluate the feasibility and toxicity of dose-dense docetaxel followed by doxorubicin and cyclophosphamide with support given as adjuvant or neoadjuvant treatment of women with node positive and high risk breast cancer
In this phase II trial we attempt to improve upon the efficacy of the trastuzumab/vinorelbine combination by adding weekly docetaxel. When administered on a weekly schedule, docetaxel is well tolerated with minimal myelosuppression, so that it is likely that fully efficacious doses of all three drugs can be administered
Pre-clinical data suggests that combination therapy with gemcitabine and carboplatin is synergistic, and both drugs may be synergistic with trastuzumab. Additionally, recent clinical data suggest that the combination of gemcitabine with platinum is an active regimen in metastatic breast cancer. This study will test the combination of gemcitabine with carboplatin in patients with metastatic breast cancer. Patients with Her2/neu overexpression will be stratified to receive trastuzumab in addition to gemcitabine and carboplatin.
Due to its remarkable activity as salvage treatment in women with metastatic breast cancer as well as the additive activity observed for gemcitabine administered in combination with trastuzumab, the clinical activity of the combination of gemcitabine administered with trastuzumab represents an exciting and ideal combination to further evaluate in Her 2 over-expressing metastatic breast cancer patients.
Treatment strategies that include induction chemotherapy have several potential advantages: early initiation of systemic chemotherapy, in vivo assessment of response, and down-staging of both the primary tumor and regional lymphatic metastases, making breast conservation an option for many. The aim of the present study is to determine the efficacy and toxicity of induction combination chemotherapy with the triplet, gemcitabine, epirubicin, and docetaxel, in patients with locally advanced or inflammatory breast cancer. Clearly, it is in the upfront treatment as well as in the adjuvant treatment of breast cancer, that effective new agents and combination of agents are likely to have the greatest potential impact.
The efficacy of single agent liposomal doxorubicin as compared to single agent docetaxel will be evaluated as first line treatment in metastatic breast cancer patients, with subsequent crossover to the opposite arm at disease progression or patient intolerance. We will explore this as well as any possible cross resistance between these two agents.