Simvastatin in Preventing a New Breast Cancer in Women at High Risk for a New Breast Cancer

Completed · Phase 2

Conditions studied: Breast Cancer

In brief

RATIONALE: Chemoprevention is the use of certain drugs to keep cancer from forming, growing, or coming back. The use of simvastatin may keep cancer from coming back in women who are at high risk for a new breast cancer after undergoing surgery for ductal carcinoma in situ or stage I, stage II, or stage III breast cancer. PURPOSE: This phase II trial is studying how well simvastatin works in preventing a new breast cancer in women at high risk for a new breast cancer after undergoing surgery for ductal carcinoma in situ or stage I, stage II, or stage III breast cancer.

Key facts

Study ID
NCT00334542
Run by
Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins
People needed
50
Starts
2006-03-01
Expected to finish
2011-11-01
Last updated by the study team
2019-04-03

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: female. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

Where it is running

Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov

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