Surgery With or Without Lymph Node Removal in Treating Older Women With Stage I Breast Cancer

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2012-12-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Female

Summary

RATIONALE: Surgery to remove axillary lymph nodes may be an effective treatment for women with breast cancer.

PURPOSE: Randomized phase III trial to compare the effectiveness of therapy with or without axillary lymph node dissection following quadrantectomy in treating older women with stage I breast cancer that is estrogen receptor positive.

• Phase: Phase 3
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: European Institute of Oncology
• Treatments: Tamoxifen

Criteria

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

• Histologically proven stage I, invasive breast cancer

• Hormone receptor status:

• Estrogen receptor positive

• Progesterone receptor positive or negative

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

Age:

• 65 to 80

Sex:

• Female

Menopausal status:

• Postmenopausal

Performance status:

• Not specified

Life Expectancy:

• Not specified

Hematopoietic:

• Not specified

Hepatic:

• Not specified

Renal:

• Not specified

Other:

• No serious disease that would preclude surgery

• No other prior or concurrent malignancy except basal cell carcinoma or carcinoma in situ of the cervix

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

• Not specified