Identifying Circulating Breast Cancer Cells in Women With Metastatic Breast Cancer

Completed

Conditions studied: Breast Cancer

In brief

RATIONALE: Studying samples of blood and pleural or peritoneal fluid from patients with metastatic breast cancer in the laboratory may help doctors identify biomarkers related to breast cancer and learn more about how breast cancer begins and spreads in the body. PURPOSE: This research study is looking at a new way of identifying circulating breast cancer cells in blood and in pleural or peritoneal fluid in women with metastatic breast cancer.

Key facts

Study ID
NCT00897338
Run by
Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins
People needed
43
Starts
2007-08-01
Expected to finish
2014-01-01
Last updated by the study team
2015-10-12

Who can join

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

Where it is running

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