Clinical Trials

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Combining more than one drug may kill more tumor cells. It is not yet known which combination chemotherapy regimen is more effective for breast cancer.

PURPOSE: Randomized phase III trial to compare the effectiveness of two combination chemotherapy regimens in treating women with breast cancer who have undergone surgery to remove the tumor.

The purpose of this research is to determine if previously adding a medication by the name of bevacizumab to the current standard chemotherapy of cancer-reducing medications, namely doxorubicin, cyclophosphamide and paclitaxel, reduces the risk of recurrence (called disease-free survival) compared to standard chemotherapy alone.

The aims of this study are to develop an institutional recurrent breast cancer registry, including prior and future patients, which will be prospectively maintained to characterize the current management of patients with locally recurrent breast cancer.  Specifically, investigate the extent of operation, subsequent operations, use of radiation and re-radiation and timing and nature of systemic therapies and variables associated with selection of these modalities, and to analyze breast-cancer specific outcomes including rates of local re-recurrence, regional and distant recurrence, recurrence-free and breast-cancer specific survival.

This randomized phase III trial studies doxorubicin hydrochloride, cyclophosphamide, and paclitaxel to see how well they work with or without bevacizumab in treating patients with cancer that has spread to the lymph nodes (lymph node-positive) or cancer that has not spread to the lymph nodes but is at high risk for returning (high-risk, lymph node-negative breast cancer). Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as doxorubicin hydrochloride, cyclophosphamide, and paclitaxel, work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells, by stopping them from dividing, or by stopping them from spreading. Monoclonal antibodies, such as bevacizumab, ...

The purpose of this study is:

1. To assess whether a team based care model applied to distressed breast cancer patients will result in lower distress at 3, 6, 9 & 12 months compared to treatment as usual.
2. To assess whether health promotion tools such as psychoeducation applied to non-distressed breast cancer patients will result in lower distress at 3, 6, 9 & 12 months compared to treatment as usual.

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. It is not yet known which regimen of chemotherapy is more effective for breast cancer.

PURPOSE: Randomized phase III trial to compare the effectiveness of two different regimens of combination chemotherapy in treating women who have stage II or stage IIIA breast cancer that has spread to the lymph nodes.

The purpose of this study is to collect blood samples and fresh tissue from biopsies of metastatic lesions from Mayo Clinic patients with metastatic breast cancer. The biospecimens will be used for analysis of genetic alterations in germline and tumor DNA and for tracking of response to therapy using blood-based liquid biopsy approaches. 

This randomized phase III trial studies doxorubicin hydrochloride, cyclophosphamide, and paclitaxel to see how well they work with or without bevacizumab in treating patients with cancer that has spread to the lymph nodes (lymph node-positive) or cancer that has not spread to the lymph nodes but is at high risk for returning (high-risk, lymph node-negative breast cancer). Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as doxorubicin hydrochloride, cyclophosphamide, and paclitaxel, work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells, by stopping them from dividing, or by stopping them from spreading. Monoclonal antibodies, such as bevacizumab, ...

The purpose of this study is to examine the capability of contrast enhanced breast PCD-CT in staging breast cancer within the breasts and regional nodes of human subjects. Developing and using a PCD-CT imaging technique and postprocessing algorithms, dedicated for breast cancer detection.

The goal of this clinical research study is to learn how often breast cancer recurs (returns after treatment) in the breast in patients who have been treated with chemotherapy and have had follow-up radiation therapy (but not surgery) and are in complete remission (no evidence of disease). This is an investigational study. Radiation therapy is delivered using FDA-approved and commercially available methods. The study doctor can explain how radiation therapy is designed to work. About 120 participants will be enrolled on this multicenter study. Up to 90 may take part at MD Anderson.

The purpose of this registry is to collect and maintain samples of breast tissue from women and men undergoing surgery for a breast related concern at Mayo Clinic Rochester,  to create a biospecimen resource for the study of benign and cancerous breast conditions.

The purpose of this study is to offer pre-approval drug access of iniparib  combined with gemcitabine and carboplatin, in order to provide potential clinical benefit to patients who have ER-, PR-, and HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer.

The purpose of this study is to determine if Brain Natriuretic Peptide (NT-pro-BNP) values increase over time in breast cancer survivors and correlate with cardiac dysfunction. This study will define the average NT-pro-B-natriuretic peptide values in female breast cancer patients 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 years out from anthracycline-based chemotherapy.

The study is designed as an open-label, randomized, parallel, two arm, multicenter, international Phase 3 study in patients with recurrent or metastatic breast cancer previously treated with cytotoxic chemotherapy regimens.

The primary study objective is to compare overall survival of patients who receive NKTR-102 given once every 21 days to patients who receive treatment of Physician's Choice selected from a list of seven single-agent intravenous therapies.

The purpose of this study is to determine the recommended phase 2 dose (RP2D), the optimal treatment regimen and to evaluate preliminary efficacy of RYZ101 in estrogen receptor positive (ER+), human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-negative, unresectable, locally advanced and unresectable or metastatic breast cancer.

This phase I trial studies the side effects and the best dose of Z-endoxifen hydrochloride in treating patients with estrogen receptor-positive (ER+) breast cancer that has spread to other places in the body (metastatic) or has come back at or near the same place as the original tumor (locally recurrent). Estrogen can cause the growth of breast cancer cells. Hormone therapy using Z-endoxifen hydrochloride may fight breast cancer by blocking the use of estrogen by tumor cells.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate how well the combination of avelumab with liposomal doxorubicin with or without binimetinib, or the combination of avelumab with sacituzumab govitecan works in treating patients with triple negative breast cancer that is stage IV or is not able to be removed by surgery (unresectable) and has come back (recurrent).

The purpose of this study is to assess the safety of in vivo in host drug sensitivity testing in patients with breast cancer and patients with lymphoma (nodal, extranodal masses, or cutaneous lesions).

The purpose of this study is to estimate the circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA)detection rate and mutational load in breast cancer patients with indications for regional nodal irradiation.

The purpose of this study is to compare the effectiveness of two different combinations of chemotherapy in treating women who have stage II or stage IIIA breast cancer that has spread to the lymph nodes. Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. It is not yet known which regimen of chemotherapy is more effective for breast cancer.

Tinostamustine (EDO-S101) is a new chemical entity, an AK-DAC (a first-in-class alkylating deacetylase inhibiting molecule) that, in preclinical studies, has been shown to simultaneously improve access to the DNA strands within cancer cells, break them and block damage repair. This Phase 1/2 study will enroll patients with various advanced solid tumors.

The purpose of this multicenter prospective observational case-control study is to train and validate Adela’s cfMeDIP-seq based methylome profiling platform to detect and differentiate multiple cancer subtypes. In addition, this study includes longitudinal follow-up for a subset of participants to train and validate the methylome profiling platform to detect minimal residual disease and recurrence.

The purpose of this study is to test the safety and side effects of a drug called SGN-B7H4V in participants with solid tumors.  A side effect is anything a drug does to the body besides treating the disease. Participants will have cancer that has spread in the body near where it started (locally advanced) and cannot be removed (unresectable) or has spread through the body (metastatic). This study will have three parts. Parts A and B of the study will find out how much SGN-B7H4V should be given to participants. Part C will use the dose found in Parts A ...