A Randomized Controlled Trial of Routine Shave Margins Versus Standard Partial Mastectomy in Breast Cancer Patients

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Conditions studied: Breast Cancer

In brief

This research study is designed to look at whether the routine use of shave margins (by taking extra tissue at the time of partial mastectomy surgery) will reduce the chances of having positive surgical margins requiring another surgical procedure, and whether this affects the long-term chances of getting cancer back in your breast.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01452399

Run by

Yale University

People needed

251

Starts

2011-10-01

Expected to finish

2020-08-01

Last updated by the study team

2021-01-26

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 90. Sex: female. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Breast cancer, stage 0-3, deemed a surgically appropriate candidate for partial mastectomy with planned procedure for the same.
• Women ≥ 18 years of age.
• Ability to understand and the willingness to sign a written informed consent document.

You may not qualify if…

• Patients who have received previous neoadjuvant chemotherapy
• Patients who require a total mastectomy
• Known metastatic breast cancer.

Where it is running

• Yale University School of Medicine — New Haven, Connecticut, United States

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