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Microwave Thermotherapy in Treating Women With Stage I or Stage II Breast Cancer

NCT00036998 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: PHASE2 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL

Last updated 2013-11-06

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

RATIONALE: Microwave thermotherapy kills tumor cells by heating them to several degrees above body temperature.

PURPOSE: Randomized phase II trial to compare the effectiveness of microwave thermotherapy before surgery to that of surgery alone in treating women who have stage I or stage II breast cancer.

Conditions

Interventions

PROCEDURE

conventional surgery

PROCEDURE

neoadjuvant therapy

PROCEDURE

thermal ablation therapy

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Imunon

    lead INDUSTRY

Principal Investigators

  • William E. Gannon, MD · Imunon

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2001-08-31

Countries

  • United States
  • United Kingdom

Study Locations

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Diseases

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