Educational Interventions for Patients With DCIS

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: DCIS

In brief

The purpose of this study is to determine whether adding an educational intervention, in the form of a decision board, which outlines the risks and benefits of treatment options for DCIS, at the time of the first surgical consultation will improve decision making for women with DCIS.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00148655

Run by

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

People needed

120

Starts

2003-05-01

Expected to finish

2006-08-01

Last updated by the study team

2007-12-28

Who can join

Age: 25 and older. Sex: female. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Eligible patients will include women over the age of 25 with newly-diagnosed DCIS who are candidates for breast conserving therapy.
• Pathologic confirmation of DCIS without evidence of invasive breast cancer and mammograms showing a single suspicious focus without mammographic or clinical evidence of multicentricity.
• Patients that have not made a decision regarding management of DCIS
• Eligible for radiotherapy to breast
• Oral and written knowledge of English

You may not qualify if…

• Patients that have undergone mastectomy
• History of prior radiotherapy to the breast, scleroderma or systemic lupus erythematosus
• Clinically palpable disease in the axilla or contralateral breast cancer
• Co-morbidities that would render them ineligible for general anesthesia

Where it is running

• Dana-Farber Cancer Center — Boston, Massachusetts, United States
• Faulkner Hospital — Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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