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Filter by:This is a research study which aims to improve the way that doctors determine the dose of chemotherapy given to patients. Right now, chemotherapy is determined by a patient's height and weight. However, some patients metabolize chemotherapy faster or slower than the average person because of a different level of drug metabolizing enzyme in the liver. Therefore, some patients are either given too small or too large a dose of chemotherapy because the amount of enzyme is not taken into account. This research study will examine the use of a simple test, call the Erythromycin Breath Test(ERMBT) to determine the amount of enzyme which can metabolize the chemotherapy drug docetaxel (Taxotere). The dose of docetaxel will be tailored to the amount of enzyme which is available to metabolize the drug for each patient.
This randomized controlled trial tests the hypothesis that a reduction in intake of dietary fat will reduce the incidence of breast cancer. Women with more than 50% of the breast occupied by dense tissue on a mammogram have been recruited and allocated by a random (ie chance) process, to an intervention or control group. The intervention group has been taught how to reduce their fat intake to a target of 15% of total calories, while the control group continued their usual consumption of fat. Both groups have then been followed for at least 7 years and the number who develop breast cancer in each group will be compared
The purpose of this study is to test the effectiveness and safety of fulvestrant in premenopausal women with advanced breast cancer.
The purpose of this study is to find out what effects (good and bad) a combination of cytoxan, epirubicin, and capecitabine have on women with Stage II/II/IIIA breast cancer.
The main purpose of this study is to see if pegfilgrastim (Neulasta) is safe and useful in supporting people through dose-dense chemotherapy, and to see if a long-acting red blood cell growth factor, darbepoetin alfa(Aranesp) can reduce the need for blood transfusion in chemotherapy recipients.
The purpose of this study is to compare two different combinations of chemotherapy with trastuzumab as initial treatment for HER2 positive advanced breast cancer. Half of the patients will receive trastuzumab in combination with a taxane form of chemotherapy (either paclitaxel or docetaxel), while the other group will receive trastuzumab in combination with vinorelbine.
The goal of this study is to determine how often patients who have atypical lobular hyperplasia (ALH) or lobular carcinoma in situ (LCIS) on core needle biopsy of an imaging (found by mammogram or breast ultrasound) abnormality will have associated breast cancer at surgical removal of the area.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety and tolerability as well as find the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) for HKI-272. In addition, this study will examine the effects of the study drug on your tumor, and how your body uses and eliminates HKI-272.
This is a research study which aims to improve the way that doctors determine the dose of chemotherapy given to patients. Right now, chemotherapy is determined by a patient's height and weight. However, some patients metabolize chemotherapy faster or slower than the average person because of a different level of drug metabolizing enzyme in the liver. Therefore, some patients are either given too small or too large a dose of chemotherapy because the amount of enzyme is not taken into account. This research study will examine the use of a simple test, call the Erythromycin Breath Test(ERMBT) to determine the amount of enzyme which can metabolize the chemotherapy drug docetaxel (Taxotere). The dose of docetaxel will be tailored to the amount of enzyme which is available to metabolize the drug for each patient. The drug, docetaxel, is combined with another drug, trastuzumab (Herceptin), because at this time this combination appears to be promising in metastatic breast cancer research.
Quality of Life-Diagnostics and -Therapy in Individual Patients with Breast Cancer. A randomized study including 200 patients, 5 clinics and 43 general practitioners as coordinating doctors for quality of life therapies.