Status:

COMPLETED

Educational Interventions for Patients With DCIS

Lead Sponsor:

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Collaborating Sponsors:

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Conditions:

DCIS

Eligibility:

FEMALE

25+ years

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether adding an educational intervention, in the form of a decision board, which outlines the risks and benefits of treatment options for DCIS, at the time ...

Detailed Description

* The decision board explains the risks and benefits of mastectomy, excision and radiation, excision, radiation, and tamoxifen, excision alone, and excision without radiation and tamoxifen for women w...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Eligible patients will include women over the age of 25 with newly-diagnosed DCIS who are candidates for breast conserving therapy.
  • Pathologic confirmation of DCIS without evidence of invasive breast cancer and mammograms showing a single suspicious focus without mammographic or clinical evidence of multicentricity.
  • Patients that have not made a decision regarding management of DCIS
  • Eligible for radiotherapy to breast
  • Oral and written knowledge of English

Exclusion

  • Patients that have undergone mastectomy
  • History of prior radiotherapy to the breast, scleroderma or systemic lupus erythematosus
  • Clinically palpable disease in the axilla or contralateral breast cancer
  • Co-morbidities that would render them ineligible for general anesthesia

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

May 1 2003

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ESTIMATED

End Date :

August 1 2006

Estimated Enrollment :

120 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT00148655

Start Date

May 1 2003

End Date

August 1 2006

Last Update

December 28 2007

Active Locations (2)

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Dana-Farber Cancer Center

Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02115

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Faulkner Hospital

Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02130