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Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
Last refreshed on: 4 March 2013
Main ID:  NCT00539227
Date of registration: 02/10/2007
Primary sponsor: M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Public title: A Pilot Study to Evaluate Nipple-Areolar Complex (NAC) Sparing Mastectomy
Scientific title: A Pilot Study to Evaluate Nipple-Areolar Complex (NAC) Sparing Mastectomy
Date of first enrolment: October 2007
Target sample size: 30
Recruitment status: Active, not recruiting
URL:  http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00539227
Study type:  Observational
Study design:  Observational Model: Case Control, Time Perspective: Prospective  
Countries of recruitment
United States
Contacts
Name:   Gildy V. Babiera, MD
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Affiliation:  M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Patients desiring prophylactic mastectomy with immediate reconstruction

2. Patients with Stage 0, I, or II breast cancer who are candidates for and desire
skin-sparing mastectomy with immediate reconstruction

3. Tumor location greater than or equal to 2.5 cm from the border of the NAC based on
preoperative imaging and/or clinical exam

4. Patients must sign an informed consent and be registered before the procedure is
performed

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Patients with cancer involvement of the NAC on clinical exam, defined as induration,
retraction, fixation, ulceration, or pathologic nipple discharge

2. Patients with subareolar tumor locations, tumors located < 2.5 cm from the border of
the NAC

3. Patients with Paget's disease of the nipple

4. Patients who have locally advanced breast cancer manifesting as inflammatory breast
cancer or gross involvement of the mastectomy skin

5. Patients with history of prior surgery involving a periareolar incision

6. Patients desiring a concomitant ipsilateral reduction mammoplasty at time of
mastectomy

7. Patients with macromastia as defined by the plastic surgeon

8. Patients with a body mass index (BMI) greater than 40 kg/m2

9. Patients who actively smoke

10. Patients with known collagen vascular disease

11. Patients with prior ipsilateral chest wall irradiation less than 12 months from their
time of surgery



Age minimum: N/A
Age maximum: N/A
Gender: Female
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Breast Cancer
Intervention(s)
Behavioral: Questionnaire
Procedure: NAC Sparing Mastectomy
Primary Outcome(s)
Nipple Sensation Evaluation (following NAC sparing mastectomy) [Time Frame: Within first month postoperatively, then at 3 months, 6 month, 1 year, 2 years, and 5 years postoperatively (each interval +/- 1 month)]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Secondary ID(s)
2007-0194
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
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