Combination Chemotherapy With or Without Microwave Thermotherapy Before Surgery in Treating Women With Locally Advanced Breast Cancer
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Official title
A Randomized Pivotal Clinical Trial To Assess The Efficacy Of Pre-operative Focused Microwave Thermotherapy Treatment Combined With Pre-operative Chemotherapy For Cytoreduction Of Advanced Breast Cacer In Intact Breast
Brief summary
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RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Microwave thermotherapy kills tumor cells by heating them to several degrees above body temperature. Combining chemotherapy with microwave thermotherapy before surgery may shrink the tumor so that it can be removed during surgery. PURPOSE: Randomized phase II trial to compare the effectiveness of combination chemotherapy with or without microwave thermotherapy before surgery in treating women who have locally advanced breast cancer.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT00036985
- Recruitment status
- Not listed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase 2
- Enrollment
- Not listed
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Interventions
- cyclophosphamide Drug
- doxorubicin hydrochloride Drug
- conventional surgery Procedure
- neoadjuvant therapy Procedure
- thermal ablation therapy Procedure
Drug · Procedure
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years and older
- Sex
- Female
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- Jul 31, 2001
- Primary completion
- Not listed
- Completion
- Not listed
- Last update posted
- Dec 18, 2013
Started 2001
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 7
- U.S. states
- 6
- U.S. cities
- 7
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, UCLA | Los Angeles | California | 90095-1781 | — |
| St. Joseph Hospital Regional Cancer Center - Orange | Orange | California | 92868 | — |
| Comprehensive Breast Center of Coral Springs | Coral Springs | Florida | 33071 | — |
| Oklahoma University Medical Center at University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center | Oklahoma City | Oklahoma | 73104 | — |
| Mroz-Baier Breast Care Center | Memphis | Tennessee | 38119 | — |
| Breast Care Specialists, P.C. | Norfolk | Virginia | 23510 | — |
| Not listed | Tacoma | Washington | 98405 | — |
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- Last update posted Dec 18, 2013 · Synced Sep 12, 2026
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