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Completed Not applicable Interventional

Shave Margins vs. Standard Partial Mastectomy in Breast Cancer Patients

ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT02772731

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Official title

A Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial of Routine Shave Margins vs. Standard Partial Mastectomy in Breast Cancer Patients

Brief summary

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Breast cancer is the most common malignancy affecting women in the US. Surgical management is the mainstay of therapy, and in general consists of resection of the primary tumor with either a partial mastectomy (aka "lumpectomy") or a total mastectomy. The investigators hypothesize that routine shave margins during partial mastectomy will significantly reduce positive margin rate. A positive margin means that cancerous cells were detected at the edge of the excised area. This generally mandates a return to the operating room for re-excision.

Study identification

NCT ID
NCT02772731
Recruitment status
Completed
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Not applicable
Lead sponsor
Yale University
Other
Enrollment
400 participants

Conditions and interventions

Eligibility (public fields only)

Age range
18 Years and older
Sex
Female
Healthy volunteers
Healthy volunteers not accepted

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Study timeline

Start date
Jun 30, 2016
Primary completion
May 31, 2018
Completion
Oct 31, 2024
Last update posted
Jan 30, 2025

2016 – 2024

United States locations

U.S. sites
9
U.S. states
8
U.S. cities
9
Facility City State ZIP Site status
Loma Linda University Cancer Center Loma Linda California 92354
Watson Clinic Cancer and Research Center Lakeland Florida 33805
William Beaumont Hospital Troy Michigan 48085
UNC Chapel Hill Chapel Hill North Carolina 27599-7213
Wake Forest School of Medicine Winston-Salem North Carolina 27157
Cleveland Clinic Akron General Akron Ohio 44307
Thomas Jefferson University Philadelphia Pennsylvania 19107
Women & Infants Hospital Providence Rhode Island 02905
Doctors Hospital at Renaissance Edinburg Texas 78539

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