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Local Surgery for Metastatic Breast Cancer

The Effect of Primary Surgical Treatment on Survival in Patients With Metastatic Breast Cancer at Diagnosis

Status
Completed
Phases
NA
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT00557986
Enrollment
281
Registered
2007-11-14
Start date
2007-11-30
Completion date
2012-11-30
Last updated
2016-08-12

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Conditions

Breast Cancer

Keywords

1-Metastatic breast cancer, 2-Surgery, 3-Survival

Brief 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

Detailed description

This is a randomised, controled clinical trial. Our aim is to observe whether primary surgery improves survival in metastatic breast cancer. Women who have metastatic breast cancer at the initial diagnosis will be included in the study. There will be two study arms: primary surgery and systemic chemotherapy groups. In the primary surgery group patients will have adjuvant therapies after they had the proper surgery. In the systemic chemotherapy group patients will be followed after their initial therapy and will have surgery only if they have locoregional problems (such as wide necrosis or bleeding, etc). During the follow-up period, patients will be seen in every 6 months.

Interventions

Primary breast surgery before systemic therapy

Sponsors

Istanbul University
CollaboratorOTHER
Abant Izzet Baysal University
CollaboratorOTHER
Marmara University
CollaboratorOTHER
Federation of Breast Diseases Societies
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
FEMALE
Healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

* Women with metastatic breast cancer at the initial diagnosis

Exclusion criteria

* Women needs breast surgery at the time of initial diagnosis (such as bleeding, necrosis, etc) * who have systemic morbidity that do not allows her to be in the trial, * who have synchronous breast cancer at the contralateral breast, * who have a previous cancer history or another primary cancer history and metastasis at the past, * who have palpable lymph node/nodes at the contralateral axilla, * who do not agree to participate the trial

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
Measure: all cause mortality5 years

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
Quality of life5 year
mordities5 years

Countries

Turkey (Türkiye)

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Apr 3, 2026