PASSION - P Trial: Ph Adjusted Sulfur-Colloid, Sentinel Initiative ON Pain Trial (PassionP)

Walter Reed Army Medical Center

Status: Completed

Conditions: Breast Cancer

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other U.S. Federal agency

Identifiers

NCT00940199

WU#06-20027

Details and patient eligibility

About

Patients with breast cancer scheduled to undergo sentinel lymph node mapping and biopsy will be randomly assigned to one of four treatment groups:

I: (Standard of Care at WRAMC): Application of L-M-X topical anesthetic cream 4% to the breast within one hour of sub-areaolar injection of 4 ml 99mTc-sulfur colloid (1 mCi in normal saline)

II. Sub-areolar injection of 4 ml pH-adjusted 99mTc-sulfur colloid (1 mCi in sodium bicarbonate)

III. Sub-areolar injection of 4 ml pH-adjusted 99mTc-sulfur colloid (1 mCi in 1% Lidocaine)

IV. Sub-areolar injection of 4 ml pH-adjusted 99mTc-sulfur colloid (1 mCi in sodium bicarbonate + 1% Lidocaine)

The primary study outcome is pain, which will be evaluated for each study group before, and after radiocolloid injection utilizing a standardized 10-point Likert scale, the Wong-Baker FACES Pain Rating Scale, and the McGill Pain Questionnaire. Physician appraisal of patient pain (Wong-Baker FACES Pain Rating Scale) will be estimated during the radiocolloid injection and compared with that of the patient.

Full description

Null hypothesis: There is no difference in overall pain intensity between standard and pH adjusted radiocolloid for patients undergoing sentinel lymph node mapping and biopsy for breast cancer.

Objectives and scientific aims:

To compare the intensity of pain (Wong-Baker FACES Pain Rating Scale + McGill Pain Questionnaire) associated with WRAMC's current standard and pH-adjusted radiocolloid for patients undergoing sentinel lymph node mapping and biopsy for breast cancer.

To assess objectively physician appraisal of patient pain during the radiocolloid injection and compare physician interpreted pain score with patient reported pain score.

Define the success rate of intra-operative SLN identification for each study group.

Enrollment: 140 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Female military healthcare beneficiaries should be over 18 years of age and capable of providing informed consent indicating awareness of the investigational nature of this trial, in keeping with institutional policy.
2. Written informed consent must be obtained from each patient prior to entering the study.
3. Female military healthcare beneficiaries with early breast cancer scheduled to undergo sentinel lymph node mapping and biopsy at WRAMC

Exclusion criteria

1. Female military healthcare beneficiaries with chronic pain syndrome (e.g. fibromyalgia) undergoing active narcotic-based treatment.
2. Female military healthcare beneficiaries participating in other clinical trials the requirements of which may preclude complete involvement in this study.
3. Female military healthcare beneficiaries with significant allergy to local anesthetics.
4. Female military healthcare beneficiaries presenting with large (>4cm), clinically node positive, painful, locally advanced breast cancer.

Trial design

140 participants in 4 patient groups

Standard of Care

Description:

I:Application of L-M-X topical anesthetic cream 4% to the breast within one hour of sub-areaolar injection of 4 ml 99mTc-sulfur colloid (1 mCi in normal saline)

1 mCi in sodium bicarbonate

Description:

II. Sub-areolar injection of 4 ml pH-adjusted 99mTc-sulfur colloid (1 mCi in sodium bicarbonate)

1 mCi in 1% Lidocaine

Description:

III. Sub-areolar injection of 4 ml pH-adjusted 99mTc-sulfur colloid (1 mCi in 1% Lidocaine)

1 mCi in sodium bicarbonate + 1% Lidocaine

Description:

IV. Sub-areolar injection of 4 ml pH-adjusted 99mTc-sulfur colloid (1 mCi in sodium bicarbonate + 1% Lidocaine)