Clinical Trials Logo

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate a side effect prevention training (SEPT) that optimizes patients' response expectations before the start of adjuvant endocrine treatment (AET) to prevent nocebo side effects and enhance quality of life during longer term drug intake.


Clinical Trial Description

The majority of breast cancer patients discontinue today's standard adjuvant treatment (endocrine therapy) due to side effects and reduced quality of life. Thereby, most side effects are unspecific, thus, not related to the specific pharmacological action of the drug, but to the individual treatment context and patients´ expectations (nocebo effects). The aim of this study is to evaluate a side effect prevention training (SEPT) that optimizes patients' response expectations before the start of pharmacotherapy to prevent nocebo side effects during longer term drug intake. Using a randomized trial, we will study the time course of response expectations and side effects in breast cancer patients receiving either SEPT, standard medical care or an attention-control intervention ("supportive therapy") before the start of adjuvant endocrine therapy. We will analyze the effects of changing pre-treatment expectations on cancer-treatment related side effects, quality of life and adherence 3 and 6 months after the start of endocrine therapy. Moderator analyses will be used to determine predictors of non-specific medication side effects and patients that are at high risk of experiencing them. Furthermore, we will explore the mediating influence of coping behaviours, thereby providing insights into pathways of clinical nocebo effects. The study findings promise significant advances in the clinical application of nocebo research with strong implications for clinical and research practice. ;


Study Design


Related Conditions & MeSH terms


NCT number NCT01741883
Study type Interventional
Source Philipps University Marburg Medical Center
Contact
Status Active, not recruiting
Phase N/A
Start date November 2012
Completion date August 2020

See also
  Status Clinical Trial Phase
Active, not recruiting NCT02480933 - Silent Breast Cancer A Study of the Disease Prevalence Held by Imaging Guided Biopsies in Autopsy Specimens N/A
Not yet recruiting NCT04863833 - Tomosymthesis for Breast Mass Lesion Characterization
Completed NCT05000502 - Exercise, Gut Microbiome, and Breast Cancer: Increasing Reach to Underserved Populations N/A
Withdrawn NCT06145399 - A Study of 1 8F-FDHT PET/MRIScans in Women With Breast Cancer Early Phase 1
Suspended NCT01320488 - Breast Cancer in Young Women: Is it Different? N/A
Recruiting NCT02089854 - Adjuvant Endocrine Therapy for Estrogen Receptor-beta Positive Triple Negative Breast Cancer Phase 4
Recruiting NCT06144164 - A Study of a Comprehensive Prevention Program to Reduce Lymphedema After Axillary Lymph Node Dissection in People With Breast Cancer Phase 3
Recruiting NCT06331793 - Pulsed Electromagnetic Fields for Analgesia Post Mastectomy N/A
Recruiting NCT05439499 - This is a Multicenter, Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled Phase III Clinical Study Evaluating the Efficacy and Safety of FCN-437c Versus Placebo in Combination With Letrozole or Anastrozole ± Goserelin in Women With HR+ and HER2- Advanced Breast Cancer. Phase 3
Terminated NCT03836872 - Acupuncture for Joint Symptoms in Patients With Breast Cancer N/A
Recruiting NCT06332976 - PrefeRences And ChemoTherapy In Breast Cancer patiEnts
Completed NCT01671319 - Dose Dense TC + Pegfilgrastim Support for Breast Cancer Phase 2
Not yet recruiting NCT06092892 - IIT2023-09-Chung-UpfrontTAD: Upfront TAD/SNB in Patients With Breast Cancer With Nodal Metastases Phase 2
Recruiting NCT05586256 - Ultra-hypofractionated Radiotherapy in Breast Cancer Patients
Not yet recruiting NCT03153631 - Female Sexual Dysfunction in Breast Cancer Patients N/A
Active, not recruiting NCT03059875 - Place of Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment in Patients ≥ 75 Years Care, With Breast Cancer, After Screening With FOG (Oncology Geriatric Filter) N/A
Active, not recruiting NCT02088710 - Expectations and Side Effects of Endocrine Therapy in Women With Breast Cancer N/A
Terminated NCT01083641 - Estrogen for Triple Negative Breast Cancer Phase 2
Recruiting NCT05374161 - An Intervention for Female Breast CANcer: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (I-CAN-ACT) for Depression and Physical Pain N/A
Recruiting NCT05438810 - This is a Multicenter, Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled Phase III Clinical Study Evaluating the Efficacy and Safety of FCN-437c in Combination With Fluvestrant ± Goseraline Versus Placebo Combined With Fulvestrant ± Goserelin in Women With HR+ and HER2- Advanced Breast Cancer. Phase 3