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Last refreshed on: 12 December 2020
Main ID:  NCT00665782
Date of registration: 23/04/2008
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: Wake Forest University Health Sciences
Public title: Measuring Stress in Women With Newly Diagnosed Stage I, Stage II, or Stage III Breast Cancer or Ductal Carcinoma In Situ of the Breast
Scientific title: Stress Measures in Women With Newly Diagnosed Breast Cancer
Date of first enrolment: March 2008
Target sample size: 24
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00665782
Study type:  Observational
Study design:   
Phase: 
Countries of recruitment
United States
Contacts
Name:     Julia A. Lawrence
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Affiliation:  Wake Forest University Health Sciences
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Diagnosed with stage I-III invasive breast cancer or ductal carcinoma in situ of the
breast within the past 2 weeks

- Surgery for breast cancer planned

- Hormone receptor status not specified

- Female

- Menopausal status not specified

- Able to refrain from:

- Smoking cigarettes for the 24-hour period of saliva-sample collection

- Brushing teeth or eating for up to one hour prior to saliva collection

- More than 1 year since prior therapy for another malignancy

- At least 1 month since prior withdrawal from hormone-replacement product

- Able to refrain from steroid inhalers for greater than 24 hours

- No chronic oral steroids



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: 120 Years
Gender: Female
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Breast Cancer
Psychosocial Effects of Cancer and Its Treatment
Anxiety Disorder
Depression
Intervention(s)
Procedure: therapeutic conventional surgery
Other: laboratory biomarker analysis
Procedure: assessment of therapy complications
Procedure: psychosocial assessment and care
Other: questionnaire administration
Other: study of socioeconomic and demographic variables
Primary Outcome(s)
Diurnal cortisol rhythm [Time Frame: Up to 10 days]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Consistency of diurnal salivary cortisol levels over two days [Time Frame: Up to 10 days]
Correlation of the diurnal cortisol rhythm and the night-time urinary excretion with the measures of psychosocial and behavioral stress responses [Time Frame: Up to 10 days]
Changes in diurnal cortisol rhythm pattern and night-time urinary epinephrine excretion pre- to post-surgery [Time Frame: Up to 10 days]
Secondary ID(s)
P30CA012197
CCCWFU-97307
IRB00004300
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Ethics review
Results
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