The Young Women's Breast Cancer Study

Running, not enrolling

Conditions studied: Breast Cancer

In brief

The investigators are conducting a longitudinal cohort study of young women with breast cancer. The investigators identify women age 40 and younger with newly-diagnosed breast cancer from academic and community healthcare institutions. After women consent to the study, they fill-out surveys and give blood samples, and the investigators collect tissue from their breast cancer tumor after it is removed. Women are surveyed every 6 months for the first 3 years after diagnosis, then yearly thereafter for an additional 7 years (for a total follow-up of at least 10 years following diagnosis). The study investigates short and long-term disease and treatment issues, tumor biology and the relationship to patient outcomes, and psychosocial concerns at baseline and in follow-up among a cohort of young women who are newly-diagnosed with breast cancer.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01468246

Run by

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

People needed

1302

Starts

2006-11-01

Expected to finish

2035-01-01

Last updated by the study team

2026-02-03

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 40. Sex: female. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Female
• Diagnosis of breast cancer
• Age 40 or younger at diagnosis
• Informed consent obtained from patient
• Ability to understand written and spoken English to the extent necessary to complete the questionnaires

You may not qualify if…

• Inability to understand written and spoken English to the extent necessary to complete the questionnaires
• Absence of informed consent

Where it is running

• University of Colorado Cancer Center — Aurora, Colorado, United States
• Beth-Israel Deaconess Medical Center — Boston, Massachusetts, United States
• Dana-Farber Cancer Institute — Boston, Massachusetts, United States
• Massachusetts General Hospital — Boston, Massachusetts, United States
• MGH/North Shore Cancer Center — Danvers, Massachusetts, United States
• Cape Cod Hospital — Hyannis, Massachusetts, United States
• Lowell General Hospital — Lowell, Massachusetts, United States
• DF/BWCC at Milford Regional Medical Center — Milford, Massachusetts, United States
• Newton-Wellesley Hospital — Newton, Massachusetts, United States
• South Shore Hospital — South Weymouth, Massachusetts, United States
• Mayo Clinic — Rochester, Minnesota, United States
• Dana-Farber/New Hampshire Oncology-Hematology — Londonderry, New Hampshire, United States
• Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre — Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov

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