Nutrition Intervention in Treating Women With Breast Cancer

NCT00002564 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE3 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 2500

Last updated 2013-09-17

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

RATIONALE: Dietary fat may be involved in the growth of cancer cells. Restricting dietary fat may help fight cancer.

PURPOSE: Randomized clinical trial to study the effectiveness of a low fat diet in treating postmenopausal women who have stage I, stage II, or stage IIIA breast cancer that has been completely removed by surgery.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

educational intervention

PROCEDURE

therapeutic dietary intervention

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Institute for Cancer Prevention (IFCP)

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Daniel W. Nixon, MD · Medical University of South Carolina

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT

Eligibility

Min Age
48 Years
Max Age
78 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
1994-04-30
Completion
2006-12-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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