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

• Status: Terminated
• Trial end date: 2000-01-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Female

Summary

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.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: UNICANCER
• Treatments: Technetium Tc 99m Sulfur Colloid

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