Telephone-Based Genetic Counseling or Standard Genetic Counseling in Women at Risk of Carrying the BRCA1 or BRCA2 Mutation
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Breast Cancer
In brief
RATIONALE: Genetic counseling may work as well over the telephone as it does in-person. It is not yet known whether genetic counseling by telephone is more effective than standard (in-person) genetic counseling in women at risk of carrying the BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation. PURPOSE: This randomized phase III trial is studying telephone-based genetic counseling to see how well it works compared to standard (in-person) genetic counseling in women at risk of carrying the BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT00287898
- Run by
- Georgetown University
- People needed
- 669
- Starts
- 2005-05-01
- Expected to finish
- 2014-01-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2017-04-07
Who can join
Age: 21 and older, up to 85. Sex: female. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
Where it is running
- Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University Medical Center — Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States
- Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute — Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Mount Sinai School of Medicine — New York, New York, United States
- Vermont Cancer Center at University of Vermont — Burlington, Vermont, United States
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