Diagnostic Study to Identify Sentinel Lymph Nodes in Women With Stage I or Stage II Breast Cancer

Unicancer

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Breast Cancer

Treatments: Drug: patent blue V dye; Radiation: technetium Tc 99m sulfur colloid; Procedure: radionuclide imaging; Procedure: sentinel lymph node biopsy; Procedure: lymphangiography

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00003654

CDR0000066746

EU-98055

FRE-FNCLCC-96008

Details and patient eligibility

About

RATIONALE: Diagnostic procedures, such as blue dye or imaging to identify sentinel lymph nodes, may improve the ability to detect the extent of disease and help plan effective surgery for removing breast tumors.

PURPOSE: Diagnostic trial to study the effectiveness of blue dye and an imaging procedure to identify the sentinel lymph node under the arm in women with stage I or stage II breast cancer.

Full description

OBJECTIVES: I. Determine whether the concept of a sentinel lymph node within the axillary nodal basin is valid in staging breast cancer. II. Determine the sensitivity of combined methods of identification of sentinel lymph nodes by patent blue V dye and gamma probe detection in these women.

OUTLINE: Patients receive patent blue V dye injection peritumorally prior to surgery. Preoperative lymphoscintigraphy is performed using technetium Tc 99 sulfur rhenium colloid injected around the tumor associated with intraoperative gamma probe detection. Nonpalpable tumors receive a localized injection using stereotactic injection techniques. Patients then undergo standard axillary (level I and II) lymph node dissection.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 200 patients will be accrued for this study within 1 year.

Enrollment: 200 estimated patients

Sex: Female

Ages: Under 120 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS: Histologically or cytologically proven stage I or IIA invasive breast cancer T0, T1, or T2 (no greater than 3 cm), N0 Noninflammatory Nonmetastatic No ductal carcinoma in situ Eligible for breast-conserving surgery Hormone receptor status: Positive or negative

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS: Age: Any age Sex: Female Menopausal status: Pre- and postmenopausal Performance status: Not specified Life expectancy: Not specified Hematopoietic: Not specified Hepatic: Not specified Renal: Not specified Other: Not pregnant No allergy or sensitivity to radiopharmaceuticals or patent blue V dye

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY: Biologic therapy: No prior biologic therapy Chemotherapy: No prior neoadjuvant chemotherapy Endocrine therapy: No prior endocrine therapy Radiotherapy: No prior neoadjuvant radiotherapy Surgery: No prior breast surgical biopsy or axillary surgery