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External Mastalgia-oil Versus Placebo in Premenopausal Women With Severe Mastalgia

A Phase 3 interventional study of mastalgia-oil and Mastalgia-oil placebo in Mastalgia, sponsored by Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University. Recruiting at 1 site in China. Open to female participants aged 18 Years to 60 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-02-02.

Sponsored by Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University · Phase 3, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Started Jun 2025; still recruiting 1 year 5 months later.
Phase
Phase 3
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
190
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years to 60 Years
Sex
Female
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Study summary

This is a single-center, double-blind, randomized clinical trial to explore the efficacy and safety of external mastalgia-oil versus placebo in premenopausal women with severe mastalgia.

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Conditions studied

  • Mastalgia

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In context

Mastodynia

44 studies on the registry are indexed under Mastodynia; 10 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 190 is above the median of 60 across 37 interventional studies indexed under Mastodynia.

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Lead sponsor

Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University is the lead sponsor of 483 studies on the registry; 283 are open to participants now.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 60 Years
Sexes eligible
Female
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  • Premenopausal females aged ≥ 18 years old
  • Pre-existing regular menstrual cycle (28 ± 5 days) with mastalgia lasting for at least 6 consecutive menstrual cycles; with severe mastalgia [visual analog scale (VAS) score ≥ 4 for at least 7 days] and without chest wall pain in the baseline menstrual cycle (nonmedicated menstrual cycle)
  • With breast ultrasound: BI-RADS classification 1-3; if mammography is required: also BI-RADS classification 1-3
  • Willingness to follow up and complete required tests; ability to complete questionnaires independently or with assistance
  • Willingness to use effective (vaginally administered estrogen and hormone-coated IUDs are permitted) prior to study entry, during study participation, and for three months after discontinuation of the drug; negative pregnancy test in females of
  • Requisite laboratory values:white blood cell count: ≥ 4.0 × 10\^9/L, : ≥ 2 × 10\^9/L, count: ≥ 100 × 10\^9/L; : ≥ 110 g/L; and alanine aminotransferase: ≤ , alkaline phosphatase: ≤ upper limit of normal, blood total : ≤ upper limit of normal; serum creatinine and blood urea nitrogen: ≤ upper limit of normal

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • With suspected breast disease (e.g., mastitis, malignant breast tumor) other than breast pain or benign breast cysts, or with other malignant tumors
  • Use of hormonal medications (e.g., oral , , etc.), sex hormone modulators (SERMS, AIs, SERDs, etc.), B vitamins, essential oils, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, or higher pain relievers in the past 3 months; use of tamoxifen or analogs in the past 6 months
  • Prior history of breast surgery (including minimally invasive surgery), history of , or history of thromboembolism within the last 5 years (history of varicose veins and superficial phlebitis allowed)
  • Smokers; essential oils or placebo systemic/skin sensitization
  • With serious primary diseases of the heart, liver, kidneys and hematopoietic system, or mental illness, etc.
  • Accompanied by skin damage on the breast that destroys the stratum corneum (e.g., eczema, ulcers)
  • Serious or uncontrolled infections that may interfere with study treatment or assessment of study results, including but not limited to active hepatitis viral infection, antibody positivity, syphilis spirochete antibody positivity with evidence of active infection, and pulmonary infections
  • Subjects who are breastfeeding or pregnant at the time of screening (of childbearing age and with serum human chorionic gonadotropin test results higher than the reference value); subjects of childbearing age who have had unprotected sex with a heterosexual partner within 2 weeks prior to the screening; subjects of childbearing age who are planning to prepare for conception, become pregnant, breastfeed, or donate their eggs during the test period or within 3 months of the end of the test; and those with implanted breasts
  • Decrease in total breast pain score by more than 25% during the placebo lead-in cycle. These patients will not receive subsequent randomization and treatment.
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(11)

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Contraception

Ways of preventing pregnancy. “Highly effective” methods fail less than 1% of the time a year when used correctly — for example an IUD or an implant.

Criteria usually say which methods count and how long to keep using them after the last dose, sometimes for male participants too. Some studies accept a partner’s vasectomy if it was confirmed successful and that person is the participant’s only sexual partner.

Childbearing potential

Able to become pregnant: from the first period until menopause, unless permanently unable to through surgery (removal of the womb, or of both ovaries or both fallopian tubes).

Criteria for people of childbearing potential usually ask for a negative pregnancy test and for contraception during the study and for a time after it.

Absolute neutrophil count (ANC)

The number of neutrophils, white blood cells that help fight infection, in a given amount of blood. Too few raises the risk of infection.

It is a count, not a percentage of the white cells. Limits are written in units that mean the same: ≥ 1.5 × 10⁹/L is ≥ 1,500 per mm³ (µL). Each lab has its own reference range.

Platelets

Blood cells that help blood clot. Too few raises the risk of bleeding and bruising. A usual adult range is about 150–400 × 10⁹/L (150,000–400,000 per µL); each lab has its own reference range.

Hemoglobin (Hb)

The protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen. A low level is anaemia, which can cause tiredness and breathlessness. Measured in g/dL or g/L (9 g/dL is 90 g/L).

ALT and AST (liver enzymes)

Two enzymes measured in a routine blood test of the liver. Higher levels can mean the liver is under strain or damaged. SGPT and SGOT are older names for ALT and AST.

Criteria usually give a limit as a multiple of the upper limit of normal (ULN), often higher when cancer has spread to the liver.

ULN (upper limit of normal)

The top of the normal range for a blood test, as set by the laboratory that runs it. Each lab prints its own range next to your result.

“≤ 2.5 × ULN” means the result can be up to two and a half times that top value.

Bilirubin

A yellow substance made when red blood cells are broken down, which the liver clears. A high level can mean a problem with the liver or the bile ducts.

Criteria often allow more for people with Gilbert’s syndrome, a harmless inherited condition that raises bilirubin.

Corticosteroids (steroids)

Anti-inflammatory medicines such as prednisone, prednisolone and dexamethasone — not the anabolic steroids used for muscle.

Studies differ in what they allow: check which steroid medicines, routes (tablets, injections, creams, inhalers, eye drops) and doses this study accepts.

Cancer (malignancy)

Malignancy means cancer. Criteria about another or earlier malignancy ask whether you have had a different cancer, usually within a set number of years.

Some are commonly allowed, such as treated skin cancers other than melanoma and early cancers removed completely — check the exceptions this study lists.

HIV

The human immunodeficiency virus, which weakens the immune system.

Many studies now accept people whose HIV is controlled on treatment, judged by the viral load and the CD4 count. Check the limits this study sets.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 3
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
Quadruple (Participant, Care provider, Investigator, Outcomes assessor)
Enrollment
190 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    External mastalgia-oil

    Drug: mastalgia-oil

  • Placebo comparator
    Mastalgia-oil placebo

    Drug: Mastalgia-oil placebo

Interventions

  • Drugmastalgia-oil

    External mastalgia-oil 1 ml/d per breast for 3 consecutive menstrual cycles

  • DrugMastalgia-oil placebo

    External mastalgia-oil placebo 1 ml/d per breast for 3 consecutive menstrual cycles

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Mastalgia clinical response rate

    The recruited patients with mastalgia will be asked to record their symptoms of breast pain using a daily VAS breast pain chart, and the sum of the daily VAS within a menstrual cycle is considered the breast pain score (BPS). Effective rate (%)= \[BPS (P) - BPS (T3)\]/BPS (P)\*100%, where BPS (P) indicates BPS of the placebo lead-in cycle and BPS (T3) indicates BPS at the end of the third treatment cycle. An effective rate of ≥50% is considered a clinical response.

    Time frame: Within 4 weeks after the end of the third treatment menstrual cycle

Secondary outcomes

  1. Subgroup mastalgia clinical response rate

    Mastalgia clinical response rate in women with cyclical mastalgia; Mastalgia clinical response rate in women with non-cyclical mastalgia

    Time frame: Within 4 weeks after the end of the third treatment menstrual cycle

  2. Breast nodularity

    Breast nodularity will be assessed according to the Lucknow-Cardiff breast nodularity scale.The above breast nodularity scale is a 5-point ordinal scale depicting increasing order of nodularity in upper outer quadrants of the breasts. Grade-0 depicts a smooth textured breast with extreme extent of normalcy and grade-4 the maximum nodularity.

    Time frame: Within 7 days before the first treatment and the end of each treatment menstrual cycle

  3. Pharmacokinetics of mastodynia-oil

    Collection of blood samples for pharmacokinetic trough concentration-effect analysis of mastodynia-oil

    Time frame: Within 4 weeks after the end of the third treatment menstrual cycle

  4. Changes in blood metabolites

    Comparison of changes in blood metabolites before and after treatment and their correlation with primary endpoints using metabolomics.

    Time frame: Within 4 weeks after the end of the third treatment menstrual cycle

  5. Safety (AEs+SAEs)

    Safety will be assessed according to the National Cancer Institute Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (version 5.0).

    Time frame: From signing the informed consent form until 28 days after completion of treatment

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Study locations

1 of 1 sites recruiting
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References and documents

Publications

  • Kumar S, Rai R, Das V, Kumar S, Dwivedi V, Agrawal GG. Visual analogue scale for assessing breast nodularity in non-discrete lumpy breasts: the Lucknow-Cardiff breast nodularity scale. Breast. 2010 Jun;19(3):238-42. doi: 10.1016/j.breast.2010.02.002. Epub 2010 Mar 11. PubMed 20223665 ↗

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reached

Started Jun 2025 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Jun 2027, 23 months after the start.

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

Registered
May 2, 2025
First posted
May 11, 2025
StartActual
Jun 8, 2025
Primary completionEst.
Jun 1, 2027
CompletionEst.
Dec 1, 2027
Last update
Feb 2, 2026
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 Feb 2, 2026, 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
NCT06966245
Responsible party
Chang Gong (Clinical Professor, Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University) — Principal investigator
First posted
May 11, 2025
Start date
Jun 8, 2025
Primary completion
Jun 1, 2027 (estimated)
Completion
Dec 1, 2027 (estimated)
Last update
Feb 2, 2026

Study contacts

Chang Gong, Prof
Contact
gchang@mail.sysu.edu.cn
02034070499

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
Yes
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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