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Status unknownNCT03332368Updated Nov 7, 2017

Clinical Study on Triple Negative Breast Cancer With Chinese Medicine

An observational study in Progression-Free-Survival, Recurrence and Overall Survival, sponsored by Sheng Liu. Status unknown at 5 sites in China. Open to female participants aged 18 Years to 75 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2017-11-07.

Primary conditionTriple Negative Breast NeoplasmsRegistry: RecurrenceReclassifiedWhy we changed it
Registry
Recurrence — the first condition term the registry derived for this study.
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Triple Negative Breast Neoplasms
Why
  1. Recurrence describes something many studies share rather than a condition a study is about.
  2. The study's title name Triple Negative Breast Neoplasms.
Confidence
High: the new condition is named in the study's own title. Of 46 hand-checked studies reclassified this way, 72% were exactly right and 89% in the right disease family; the registry's first term was right for 4% (measured 2026-10-21). How we classify →
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Sponsored by Sheng Liu · Observational

The sponsor has not verified this record recently (last verified Nov 2017), so the status shown — last known as Recruiting — may be out of date.
Study type
Observational
Model
Cohort
Time perspective
Prospective
Enrollment
620
Ages
18 Years to 75 Years
Sex
Female
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Study summary

Breast cancer is one of the most serious threat to women's health of malignant tumors, also the most common causes of cancer death in women.Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) refers to the immunohistochemical detection of estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PR), human epidermal growth factor receptor-2 (Her-2) are negative.Compared with other types of breast cancer, TNBC has a high degree of invasion,local recurrence and metastasis. Also,TNBC can not use endocrine therapy and lack of molecular targeting for Her-2 target therapy.Meanwhile other biological agents are too expensive,so the current clinical therapy only can use in China is chemotherapy,the average survival time is about 2 years.

Fortunately,due to the impact of traditional Chinese medicine(TCM) in China, the majority of breast cancer patients have received varying degrees of TCM treatment, and because of TNBC patients can not be more mature endocrine therapy and anti-molecular targeted therapy Benefits, Chinese medicine play an important role in TNBC patients.TCM regulate immune function, inhibit tumor growth, Anti-recurrence and metastasis, to extend the survival of patients with tumor, and relative to chemotherapy drugs and molecular targeted drugs,improve the quality of life.In addition ,comparing with the biological agents,Chinese medicine prices are relatively low,and can be worth using widely.

With the development of evidence-based medicine, and gradually recognize the importance of comprehensive treatment of breast cancer, Cancer Treatment Model has been proposed,.That is, to take Chinese medicine, surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy, endocrine therapy and biological immunization and other standardized, individualized comprehensive treatment. The introduction of evidence-based medicine into the field of research, will be beneficial to the objective evaluation of TCM syndrome differentiation in the treatment of refractory breast cancer in the characteristics and advantages in order to promote the use of.

This study based on TCM syndrome differentiation and treatment, and adopts multi-center, randomized, double-blind and controlled research methods to evaluate whether the intervention of traditional Chinese medicine can improve the TNBC patients with disease-free survival (DFS), overall survival(OS),and the best time to intervene in traditional Chinese medicine; also the establishment of the exact effect, obvious advantages and evidence, can be promoted in line with clinical practice of the program, the formation of refractory breast Cancer and Western medicine combined with clinical path, and relying on the national clinical research base of Chinese medicine information platform, the construction of clinical information management cloud platform, the formation of active medical service process, the establishment of refractory breast cancer combined with clinical prevention and treatment center, improve the life quality level of TNBC patients.

The study contains 5 locations,including Longhua Hospital, Shuguang Hospital,Yueyang Hospital,Zhejiang Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital and Fudan University Cancer Hospital.Considering of the results of the study at MD Anderson Cancer Center in foreign countries showed that the 3-year survival rate of TNBC patients was significantly shorter than that of non-TNBC patients (74% vs.89%, P \<0.01) To be at least 10% survival rate.At the same time, considering the case lost rate of 20%, calculated by PASS software, the number of samples for each group of 310 cases, a total of 620 cases of cohort study. According to whether to take traditional Chinese medicine,all the participants are divided into exposure group and non-exposure group, the number of observations per group is 310.

Before the research, all participants needs to fill in the informed consent form, investigators introduce the clinical research related matters to them and record the basic situation. The Chinese medicine exposure group take Chinese medicine(San Yin Decoction ) besides of original Western medicine , non-exposed group only received Western medicine treatment, a total of two years.All results are recorded in the CRF table,and use SPSS18.0, Stata10.0 and other statistical software for data to analysis.

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Conditions studied

  • Progression-Free-Survival
  • Recurrence
  • Overall Survival

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Keywords

  • Triple-negative breast cancer
  • Traditional Chinese Medicine
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In context

Triple Negative Breast Neoplasms Reclassified

1,219 studies on the registry are indexed under Triple Negative Breast Neoplasms; 446 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 620 is above the median of 193 across 106 observational studies indexed under Triple Negative Breast Neoplasms.

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Lead sponsor

Sheng Liu is the lead sponsor of 4 studies on the registry; 2 are open to participants now.

Compared within Triple Negative Breast Neoplasms, this study's primary condition as ClinicalTrials.gg classifies it; the registry's first condition term is Recurrence. The counts are of registry records indexed under each term, refreshed daily. How we classify →

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 75 Years
Sexes eligible
Female
Accepts healthy volunteers
No
Sampling method
Non-probability sample

Study population

Reference to the 《Chinese Medical Association prepared the "clinical treatment guidelines • tumor volume"》, all postoperative cases have been clearly diagnosed as triple negative breast cancer by pathological cells and immunohistochemistry.

Eligibility criteria

Participants' inclusion criteria are as follows:

  1. The primary breast cancer after surgical treatment, the pathological diagnosis of breast epithelial tumors (breast cancer), ER, PR and Her-2 immunohistochemical results were negative;
  2. no recurrence of ;
  3. card score ≥ 60 points;
  4. Female patients aged 18-75 years (including 18,75 years);
  5. there is no serious organic or functional disorders, no drugs and food allergy;
  6. willing to receive treatment, observation and inspection.

Participants' exclusion criteria are as follow:

  1. does not meet the inclusion criteria;
  2. patients expected to survive \<6 months;
  3. combined with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular, liver, kidney, hematopoietic system of serious primary disease and mental illness;
  4. breastfeeding, pregnancy or women preparing for pregnancy;
  5. allergies and allergies to a variety of drugs;
  6. are participating in other drug subjects.
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(1)

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Metastases

Cancer that has spread from where it began to other parts of the body. “Metastatic” cancer is cancer that has spread this way.

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Study design

Observational model
Cohort
Time perspective
Prospective
Enrollment
620 participants (estimated)
Target follow-up
2 Years
Patient registry
Yes

Groups and cohorts

  • TCM exposure group

    TCM exposure group were treated with traditional Chinese medicine while the other do not treated with that

    Other: Traditional Chinese medicine

Interventions

  • OtherTraditional Chinese medicine

    Chinese medicine has a long history of prevention and treatment of breast cancer, the effect is obvious. Chinese medicine its mechanism of action is from the whole, adjust the body yin and yang, blood, viscera function balance, emphasizing the combination of governance and external treatment of the combination of thinking, according to different clinical syndromes, using syndrome differentiation.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Progression-Free-Survival, PFS

    Progression-Free-Survival (PFS): Calculates the time from patient treatment to disease recurrence or death due to disease progression.Unit: month

    Time frame: 2 years

  2. Overall Survival,OS

    Overall Survival (OS) refers to the time from the beginning of treatment to death due to any cause.Unit: month

    Time frame: 2 years

Secondary outcomes

  1. TCM Symptom Scale

    CM Symptom: basing on the "Chinese Medicine New Drug Clinical Research Guidelines (Trial)" (China Medical Science and Technology Press, 2002) ,the investigators evaluate the TCM Symptom every 3 months,and using scoring method to evaluate efficacy.All results are recorded in the CRF table. Significant improvement: the integral value after treatment than the integral value before treatment decreased by ≥ 70% Partial improvement: the integral value after treatment than the integral value before treatment decreased by ≥ 30%; No improvement: before and after treatment without change or after treatment integral value than the integral value before treatment decreased by \<30%

    Time frame: 2 years

  2. Karnofsky Performance Status(KPS)

    The Karnofsky Performance Status (KPS) ranking runs from 100 to 0, where 100 is "perfect" health and 0 is death. Practitioners occasionally assign performance scores in between standard intervals of 10. The investigators evaluate the KPS score every 3 months,and using scoring method to evaluate efficacy.All results are recorded in the CRF table. Improved: KPS score increased\> 10 points and maintained for more than 4 weeks; Stable: KPS score no significant change; Worsening: KPS score reduced by \<10 points

    Time frame: 2 years

  3. ECOG score

    he Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) score (published by Oken et al. in 1982), runs from 0 to 5, with 0 denoting perfect health and 5 death,The investigators evaluate the KPS score every 3 months,and using scoring method to evaluate efficacy.All results are recorded in the CRF table.

    Time frame: 2 years

  4. European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) Breast-Cancer-Specific Quality of Life Questionnaire (EORTC QLQ-BR23)

    his questionnaire is focus on participants' physical condition and the quality of life .The investigators evaluate the score every 3 months,and using scoring method to evaluate efficacy.All results are recorded in the CRF table.

    Time frame: 2 years

Other outcomes

  1. Clinical indicators

    his includes Tumor markers,immune function evaluation,chest CT/MRI and Abdominal B-ultrasound in order to monitor whether there is the tumor recurrence and metastasis.All the participants do Tumor markers check and immune function evaluation every 3 months,also chest CT/MRI and scan their bone every 6 months.

    Time frame: 2 years

  2. Adverse Event

    By setting up safety indicators to assess drug safety and whether the participants have any adverse reactions. All the participants need to check Blood, urine, feces,also liver and kidney function,Abdominal B-ultrasound,Electrocardiogram every 3 months.If the investigators find any adverse events, they need to assess the event according to the WHO acute and subacute side effects of the performance and indexing criteria for assessment, divided into 0,1,2,3,4.All results are recorded in the CRF table.

    Time frame: 2 years

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Study locations

5 of 5 sites recruiting
  • Fudan University Cancer Hospital
    Shanghai, Shanghai 220000, China
    Recruiting
    • Liu Guangyu, Master · Contact
  • Longhua Hosptial
    Shanghai, Shanghai 220000, China
    Recruiting
  • ShuGuang Hospital
    Shanghai, Shanghai 220000, China
    Recruiting
    • Wan Hua, Master · Contact+86 021-20256666
  • Yueyang Hospital
    Shanghai, Shanghai 220000, China
    Recruiting
    • Xue Xiaohong, Master · Contact+86 021-65161782
  • Zhejiang Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital
    Zhejiang, Zhejiang, China
    Recruiting
    • Gao Xiufei, Master · Contact+86 0571-87068001
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References and documents

Publications

  • Chen J, Qin Y, Sun C, Hao W, Zhang S, Wang Y, Chen J, Chen L, Ruan Y, Liu S. Clinical study on postoperative triple-negative breast cancer with Chinese medicine: Study protocol for an observational cohort trial. Medicine (Baltimore). 2018 Jun;97(25):e11061. doi: 10.1097/MD.0000000000011061. PubMed 29923998 ↗

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reached

Started Jan 2017 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Jan 2019, 24 months after the start.

How these figures are worked out, and which studies are left out of them.

Registered
Oct 24, 2017
First posted
Nov 6, 2017
StartActual
Jan 1, 2017
Primary completionEst.
Jan 1, 2019
CompletionEst.
Jan 1, 2019
Last update
Nov 7, 2017
What these dates mean
Start.
When the first participant enrolled; while estimated, when the study expects to open to recruitment.
Primary completion.
When the last participant was examined or treated to collect data for the study's main question, its primary outcome. A study that stopped early gives the date its data collection stopped.
Completion.
When the last participant's last visit took place, for every outcome, secondary ones and side effects included: the end of the study. Often later than primary completion, sometimes the same day.
Actual and Est.
Actual means the registry says the date has happened. Est. (estimated) is a date the sponsor plans or expects. It can still move, and the sponsor is expected to change it to actual once it has passed.
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Nov 7, 2017, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT03332368
Lead sponsor
Sheng Liu
Responsible party
Sheng Liu (Principal Investigator, Clinical Professor, Longhua Hospital) — Sponsor-investigator
First posted
Nov 6, 2017
Start date
Jan 1, 2017
Primary completion
Jan 1, 2019 (estimated)
Completion
Jan 1, 2019 (estimated)
Last update
Nov 7, 2017

Study contacts

Liu Sheng, Master
Contact
lshtcm@163.com
+8618917763005
Liu Sheng, Master
study chair · Longhua Hospital
Qin Yuenong, Master
study director · Longhua Hospital

Oversight

FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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