Combination Chemotherapy in Treating Women With Stage II or Stage IIIA Breast Cancer That Has Spread to the Lymph Nodes

Completed · Phase 3

Conditions studied: Breast Cancer

In brief

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.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00004125

Run by

Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group

Starts

1999-11-16

Expected to finish

2016-11-01

Last updated by the study team

2023-06-15

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 120. Sex: female. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

Where it is running

• Veterans Affairs Medical Center - Birmingham — Birmingham, Alabama, United States
• University of California San Diego Cancer Center — La Jolla, California, United States
• Veterans Affairs Medical Center - San Francisco — San Francisco, California, United States
• UCSF Cancer Center and Cancer Research Institute — San Francisco, California, United States
• CCOP - Christiana Care Health Services — Wilmington, Delaware, United States
• Lombardi Cancer Center — Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States
• Walter Reed Army Medical Center — Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States
• CCOP - Mount Sinai Medical Center — Miami Beach, Florida, United States
• Veterans Affairs Medical Center - Chicago (Westside Hospital) — Chicago, Illinois, United States
• University of Chicago Cancer Research Center — Chicago, Illinois, United States
• Hematology Oncology Associates of the Quad Cities — Bettendorf, Iowa, United States
• Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center at The University of Iowa — Iowa City, Iowa, United States
• Veterans Affairs Medical Center - Togus — Togus, Maine, United States
• Marlene & Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center, University of Maryland — Baltimore, Maryland, United States
• Dana-Farber Cancer Institute — Boston, Massachusetts, United States
• University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center — Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
• Veterans Affairs Medical Center - Minneapolis — Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
• University of Minnesota Cancer Center — Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
• Veterans Affairs Medical Center - Columbia (Truman Memorial) — Columbia, Missouri, United States
• Ellis Fischel Cancer Center - Columbia — Columbia, Missouri, United States
• Barnes-Jewish Hospital — St Louis, Missouri, United States
• University of Nebraska Medical Center — Omaha, Nebraska, United States
• CCOP - Southern Nevada Cancer Research Foundation — Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
• Norris Cotton Cancer Center — Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States
• Veterans Affairs Medical Center - Buffalo — Buffalo, New York, United States

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