Educational Program in Younger Women Who Have Recently Finished Treatment for Stage I or Stage II Breast Cancer

• Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
• Last refreshed on: 17 October 2012
• Main ID: NCT00416572
• Date of registration: 27/12/2006
• Primary sponsor: Pittsburgh Mind-Body Center at Carnegie Mellon University
• Public title: Educational Program in Younger Women Who Have Recently Finished Treatment for Stage I or Stage II Breast Cancer
• Scientific title: Adjustment to Breast Cancer Among Younger Women
• Date of first enrolment: December 2004
• Target sample size: 264
• Recruitment status: Completed
• URL: http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00416572
• Study type: Interventional
• Study design: Allocation: Randomized

Contacts

• Name: Michael Scheier, PhD
• Affiliation: Pittsburgh Mind-Body Center at Carnegie Mellon University

Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

- Diagnosis of breast cancer

- Stage I or II disease

- No more than 10 positive lymph nodes

- First-time diagnosis

- Under the age of 50 at diagnosis

- Finished active treatment within the past 2 months

- English-speaking only

- Must live within 30 miles of Magee Women's Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

- Female patients only

- Must be able to communicate

- No other prior malignancies except skin cancer

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

- See Disease Characteristics



Age minimum: N/A
Age maximum: 49 Years
Gender: Female

Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied

Breast Cancer

Psychosocial Effects of Cancer and Its Treatment

Intervention(s)

Behavioral: behavioral dietary intervention

Other: educational intervention

Other: preventative dietary intervention

Procedure: psychosocial assessment and care

Procedure: quality-of-life assessment

Secondary ID(s)

CDR0000459746

CMU-00000603

FWA00004206

MWH-99-062

PMBC-HS05-138

Source(s) of Monetary Support

Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors

Secondary Sponsor(s)

National Cancer Institute (NCI)