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Filter by:In addition to the axillary lymph nodes, the internal mammary lymph nodes (IMLNs) drainage is another important lymphatic channel of the breast. The status of IMLNs also provides important prognostic information for breast cancer patients. The technical evolvements of sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) and lymphoscintigraphy provided a less invasive method for assessing IMLNs than surgical dissection. Recently, many study concerning IMSLNB was performed in the patients with clinically negative axillary nodes. However, previous published studies concerning patients with breast cancer who all underwent a radical mastectomy have shown that IMLN metastases are mostly found concomitantly with axillary metastases. For this reason, IM-SLNB is even more important for clinically axillary node-negative patients. To our knowledge, this is the first attempt of the IM-SLNB in early breast cancer patients with clinically positive axillary nodes.
The purpose of this stage of study is to establish discriminant among healthy tissue, benign and malignant thyroid and breast tumors by fourier transform infrared spectrometry variables.
RATIONALE: Learning about the effect of metformin hydrochloride in breast density of women with early-stage breast cancer may help plan treatment. PURPOSE: This trial studies changes in breast density in patients with early-stage breast cancer treated with metformin hydrochloride or placebo on CAN-NCIC-MA.32.
This multi-center observational study will evaluate the use of Xeloda (capecitabine) in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer, colon cancer in the adjuvant setting, advanced gastric cancer and breast cancer in routine clinical practice. Eligible patients receiving treatment with Xeloda according to product label will be followed for up to 10 months.
This is a Phase III, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled multicenter study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of bevacizumab administered in combination with paclitaxel in patients with previously untreated, locally recurrent, or metastatic HER2-negative breast cancer. Patients will be randomized to one of two treatment arms: bevacizumab or placebo. All patients will be given an intravenous (IV) infusion of of paclitaxel (90 mg/m2) for 3 weeks during each 28-day cycle. bevacizumab or placebo (10 mg/kg) will be administered by IV infusion on Days 1 and 15 of each 28-day cycle. Patients will be treated until disease progression, unacceptable toxicity or death from any cause occurs.
This study is investigating the effects of a new hormone treatment for breast cancer called Irosustat. Seventy percent of breast cancers in post-menopausal wome rely on oestrogen to grow therefore are likely to respond to hormone therapy. Irosustat blocks a different pathway of steroid synthesis to Aromatase, reducing in this way oestrogen levels in the body. As less oestrogen reaches the breast cancer, it grows more slowly or stops growing altogether. IPET will recruit postmenopausal women with early, hormone sensitive, treatment naive breast cancer will receive 40mg of Irosustat once daily for 2 weeks. The effects of Irosustat on breast cancer will be evaluated by PET scans (Positron Emission Tomography) using a radioactive substance called FLT as a tracer. The scans will be performed in a PET-CT scanner which combines a PET scan and a CT scan (Computer Tomography) into one scan. This type of scan can show how body tissues are working, as well as what they look like. FLT-PET scans will be performed before and following treatment with Irosustat. As cancer cells grow faster than the normal cells around them, they will take up more of the radioactive substance, and so stand out clearly on the scan. If Irosustat is slowing down the cancer growth, the cancer will take up less of the tracer. Blood samples will be taken at regular intervals to assess what the new drug does to the body and the safety and tolerability of Irosustat will be assessed. The study incorporates translation aspects/endpoints which are based on the collection of tumour biopsies before and after treatment with Irosustat although the later biopsy is not mandatory.
Select 600 cases of women with breast cancer of triple negative or Her-2 positive or with more than 4 axillary lymph node metastasis. All the patients were accepted the chemotherapy of Anthracycline and/or Taxane. Divide them into two groups randomly. Then the experimental group will be treated with Xeloda(1000mg/m2,orally,2 times/day) for six cycles (21 days/cycle,each taking two weeks suspending for one week) as Sequential Adjuvant Therapy. And the control group will not receive any adjuvant therapy.Finally the investigators will assess the 5-year disease-free survival, 5 years and 10-year overall survival and safety of using medications.
The study aims to analyse and decode interviews of patient with breast cancer, and then established according a multidimensional profile specific to the population and to create a questionnaire tha will allow a practical and qualitative evaluation of the quality of life.
This prospective observational study will evaluate the use in clinical practice, efficacy and safety of Avastin (bevacizumab) in combination with paclitaxel in first line in patients with HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer. Data will be collected from eligible patients for up to 2.5 years.
Background: - Breast cancer is becoming more common in Africa. A higher number of cases appear in women under age 35 than in the developed world. However, little is known about the factors that may contribute to breast cancer in Africa. Researchers want to collect information from female patients in teaching hospitals in Accra and Kumasi, Ghana and to compare this information with that obtained from healthy women in the general population. These two hospitals treat most breast cancers in Ghana. The data will provide information regarding factors that predispose to the development of breast cancer among women in Ghana. Objectives: - To identify and study breast cancer risk factors in women in Ghana. Eligibility: - Women between 18 and 74 years of age who are diagnosed with breast cancer. - Participants will come from teaching hospitals in Accra and Kumasi, Ghana. Women without breast cancer will be identified from the 2010 Ghanaian Census for comparison purposes Design: - Participants will answer questions about their health and lifestyle. - Height, weight, and waist/hip measurements will be collected. - Blood and saliva samples will be collected. - Participants will be given a collection kit to collect a stool sample. - Treatment will not be provided as part of this study.