Pain After Tumescent Mastectomy or Standard Mastectomy in Women With Stage I, Stage II, or Stage III Breast Cancer

Completed

Conditions studied: Breast Cancer, Pain, Perioperative/Postoperative Complications

In brief

RATIONALE: New surgery techniques may lessen pain after breast surgery. It is not yet known whether tumescent mastectomy or standard mastectomy results in less pain in women with breast cancer. PURPOSE: This clinical trial is studying pain after tumescent mastectomy compared with pain after standard mastectomy in women with stage I, stage II, or stage III breast cancer.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00859157

Run by

University of California, Davis

People needed

74

Starts

2008-10-01

Expected to finish

2014-01-01

Last updated by the study team

2017-06-21

Who can join

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

Where it is running

• University of California Davis Cancer Center — Sacramento, California, United States

Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov

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