Identifying Circulating Breast Cancer Cells in Women With Metastatic Breast Cancer
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Official title
A Feasibility Study of a Novel Technique to Identify Circulating Breast Cancer Cells in Patients With Metastatic Breast Cancer
Brief summary
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RATIONALE: Studying samples of blood and pleural or peritoneal fluid from patients with metastatic breast cancer in the laboratory may help doctors identify biomarkers related to breast cancer and learn more about how breast cancer begins and spreads in the body. PURPOSE: This research study is looking at a new way of identifying circulating breast cancer cells in blood and in pleural or peritoneal fluid in women with metastatic breast cancer.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT00897338
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Observational
- Phase
- Not listed
- Enrollment
- 43 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Interventions
- flow cytometry Other
- fluorescence activated cell sorting Other
- immunohistochemistry staining method Other
- immunologic technique Other
- biomarker analysis Other
Other
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, 2007
- Primary completion
- Dec 31, 2013
- Completion
- Dec 31, 2013
- Last update posted
- Oct 11, 2015
2007 – 2014
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 1
- U.S. states
- 1
- U.S. cities
- 1
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins | Baltimore | Maryland | 21231-1000 | — |
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- Last update posted Oct 11, 2015 · Synced Sep 3, 2026
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