View clinical trials related to Stage III Breast Cancer.
Filter by:Molecular expression in breast cancer (BC) defines special fenotypes with different prognostic and predictive features.Since the addition of trastuzumab and lapatinib to chemotherapy, HER2 overexpressing tumors have become the best responders to systemic therapies, reaching pathologic complete response rates (pCR) around 50%. But HER2 negative tumors (luminal A and triple negative) are characterized by low chemosensitivity (luminal A) or early distant relapse after diagnosis (triple negative BC) . In this open, prospective, non-randomized and multicentric phase II study the investigators include stage II and III HER2 negative BC patients that are going to receive neoadjuvant sequential chemotherapy Epirubicin+Ciclofosfamide x 4 and then Docetaxel x 4)with an individualized vaccination with autologous dendritic cells pulsed with their own tumor. The hypothesis is that the reinforcement of the immune system with the autologous dendritic cell vaccination against HER2 negative BC could increase pathologic complete responses (pCR) and disease free survival(DFS), when added to chemo, surgery and radiation therapy and in a maintenance schedule.
This phase II trial is studying how well vorinostat works in treating women who are undergoing surgery for newly diagnosed stage I, stage II, or stage III breast cancer. Vorinostat may stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking some of the enzymes needed for cell growth. Giving vorinostat before surgery may shrink the tumor so that it can be removed.
The purpose of this study is to find out what effects the preoperative combination therapy of herceptin and navelbine have on HER-2 positive breast cancer.