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
- Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins — Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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