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Local Surgery for Metastatic Breast Cancer

NCT00557986 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 281

Last updated 2016-08-12

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Primary treatments for metastatic breast cancer are chemotherapy and radiation therapy, and surgery is reserved for tumor related complications such as bleeding. Retrospective studies showed that surgical removal of the primary tumor improves survival of patients with metastatic breast cancer at diagnosis. We hypothesis and testing that surgical removal of the primary tumor will lead to an improvement of overall survival

Conditions

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Primary surgery

Primary breast surgery before systemic therapy

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Istanbul University

    collaborator OTHER

  • Abant Izzet Baysal University

    collaborator OTHER

  • Marmara University

    collaborator OTHER

  • Federation of Breast Diseases Societies

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Atilla Soran, MD, MPH · University of Pittsburgh

  • Atilla Soran, MD, MPH · University of Pittsburgh

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2007-11-30
Primary Completion
2012-11-30
Completion
2012-11-30

Countries

  • Turkey (Türkiye)

Study Locations

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Diseases

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