Analysis of Surgery in Patients Presenting With Stage IV Breast Cancer

Completed

Conditions studied: Breast Cancer

In brief

The purpose of this study is to study patients presenting with stage IV breast cancer. Stage IV means that the breast cancer has spread to another part of the body outside the breast. This study is important because in different parts of the country some patients are being offered surgical treatment for the breast tumor and some are not. The doctors do not know if surgery for the breast tumor is helpful in patients with stage IV breast cancer. The doctors will collect information about the patient and their treatment to learn more about how patients and doctors make treatment decisions. The doctor will also collect blood samples and tissue samples for laboratory studies to learn more about tumors that have spread to other parts of the body.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00941759

Run by

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

People needed

100

Starts

2009-07-01

Expected to finish

2023-07-10

Last updated by the study team

2025-07-16

Who can join

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

You may qualify if…

• Age 18 years or older
• Known or suspected Stage IV breast cancer with intact primary tumor
• Known or suspected Stage IV breast cancer with intact primary tumor, having begun systemic therapy within the past 12 months
• Known or suspected Stage IV breast cancer within 3 months of local breast surgery
• Known or suspected Stage IV breast cancer within 3 months of local breast surgery, having begun systemic therapy within the past 12 months

You may not qualify if…

• Primary breast cancer diagnosis made by FNA only and no pre-treatment core biopsy planned for diagnostic or research purposes.
• Failure of MSKCC or participating site to confirm Stage IV breast cancer diagnosis by biopsy within 30 days of study enrollment

Where it is running

• University of Alabama at Birmingham — Birmingham, Alabama, United States
• University of California San Francisco — San Francisco, California, United States
• Georgetown University — Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States
• Washington Cancer Institute at Washington — Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States
• University of Chicago — Chicago, Illinois, United States
• The Indiana University Simon Cancer Center — Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
• John Hopkins Medical Center — Baltimore, Maryland, United States
• Dana Farber Cancer Institute — Boston, Massachusetts, United States
• University of Michigan Health System — Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
• Mayo Clinic — Rochester, Minnesota, United States
• Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center — Basking Ridge, New Jersey, United States
• Memorial Sloan Kettering Commack — Commack, New York, United States
• Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center — New York, New York, United States
• Memorial Sloan Kettering Rockville Centre — Rockville Centre, New York, United States
• Memorial Sloan Kettering Nassau — Uniondale, New York, United States
• University of North Carolina School of Medicine — Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
• Duke University — Durham, North Carolina, United States
• University of Pittsburgh Medical Center — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
• Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center — Nashville, Tennessee, United States
• Md Anderson Cancer Center — Houston, Texas, United States

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