Status:
TERMINATED
Nipple Secretion Samples in Detecting Breast Cancer in Patients and Healthy Participants Undergoing Breast Cancer Screening, Breast Diagnostic Studies, or Treatment for Benign Breast Disease
Lead Sponsor:
City of Hope Medical Center
Collaborating Sponsors:
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Conditions:
Breast Cancer
Eligibility:
FEMALE
18-120 years
Brief Summary
RATIONALE: Diagnostic procedures that measure biomarker levels in nipple section and blood samples, may help in the early detection of breast cancer. PURPOSE: This clinical trial is studying nipple s...
Detailed Description
OBJECTIVES: * To determine CEA levels in nipple secretions and blood samples from breast cancer patients and normal controls. * To determine the sensitivity and specificity of measuring CEA levels in...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:
- Referred to the Women's Health Center at the City of Hope National Medical Center for breast cancer screening, breast diagnostic studies, or treatment of breast disease
- Meets 1 of the following criteria:
- Asymptomatic and undergoing screening mammography (normal controls)
- Symptomatic and undergoing diagnostic mammography
- History of an abnormal mammogram and undergoing stereotactic or ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration or core needle biopsy
- Recently diagnosed biopsy-proven unilateral breast cancer prior to initiation of surgical or systemic therapy
- No prior breast surgery or surgical biopsy that removed the current breast pathology
- No prior breast reconstruction or breast reduction surgery that altered the ductal drainage pattern in the affected breast
- PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:
- No other cancer within the past 5 years except skin cancer
- Not pregnant or nursing
- PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:
- See Disease Characteristics
Exclusion
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
July 1 2001
Trial Type :
OBSERVATIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
September 1 2012
Estimated Enrollment :
126 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT00813878
Start Date
July 1 2001
End Date
September 1 2012
Last Update
October 13 2017
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City of Hope Medical Center
Duarte, California, United States, 91010-3000