Ultrasound Guided Pectoral Nerves Blockade for Persistent Pain After Breast Cancer Surgery

• Status: Unknown status
• Trial end date: 1969-12-31
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Female

Summary

This is a pilot study of the pectoral nerves block (PECS) in patients with persistent pain after breast cancer surgery.

• Phase: Phase 2
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Rigshospitalet, Denmark
• Collaborator: Henrik Kehlet
• Treatments: Bupivacaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Female patients, aged 18 years or over, treated for breast cancer

• Patients with persistent pain in the breast after surgical treatment for breast cancer. Their pain score must be 4 or more on the numerical rating scale (NRS).

Exclusion Criteria:

• breast surgery within the last 12 months

• previous cosmetic surgery

• bilateral breast cancer (receiving bilateral intervention)

• pregnant or breast feeding

• neurological disease

• on-going treatment for severe mental illness or who abuse alcohol or drugs

• are unable to understand written or spoken Danish or English

• lack mental capacity to give informed consent or cooperate with the neurophysiological testing

• an allergy to amide local anaesthetics

• pacemaker in situ

• received treatment outside guidelines and recommendations from the Danish Breast Cancer Co-operative Group (DBCG)