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Phase 2 Completed N=35 Prevention

Breast Cancer Risk Biomarkers in Postmenopausal Women

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT01252290 ↗
Enrolled (actual)
35
Serious AEs
5.7%
Results posted
Dec 2016
Primary outcomePrimary: The Proportion of Subjects That Complete Intervention of Lovaza™ 4 Grams Per Day — 0.97 proportion of enrolled participants

Summary

This study is designed to gather information on how the prescription drug Lovaza™ which contains omega-3 fatty acids, affects blood and tissue risk biomarkers for breast cancer. This drug is currently approved by the FDA for reducing blood levels of triglycerides.

Outcome Measures

OutcomeResultp-value
PRIMARY
The Proportion of Subjects That Complete Intervention of Lovaza™ 4 Grams Per Day
0.97
SECONDARY
Modulation of the Risk Biomarker Masood Score
-1
SECONDARY
Change in (DHA+EPA):AA Ratio for Phospholipids in Plasma
0.62
SECONDARY
Change in Quality of Life
10
SECONDARY
Change in Ki-67 Expression
-0.4

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

  • Subjects must be postmenopausal and between the ages of 25 and 69 years. Menopause is defined by no menstrual period for more than one year and intact uterus and ovaries, or women with intact ovaries but without a uterus and age 50 and over, or a woman with both estradiol and follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) in the postmenopausal range or any woman who has had her ovaries removed.
  • Subjects must be at increased risk for breast cancer on the basis of at least one of the following criteria:
  • A five-year Gail risk of ≥ 1.67% or ≥ 2X the average risk for a woman of the same age using either the Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results (SEER, http://seer.cancer.gov) database, the NCI Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Tool (www.cancer.gov/bcrisktool), or the International Breast Cancer Intervention Study (IBIS) Risk Evaluator (http://www.emstrials.

org/riskevaluator/), or a ten-year Tyrer-Cuzick model risk of 2x that of the population risk.

  • A first degree relative with breast cancer under the age of 60 or multiple second degree relatives with breast cancer.
  • Multiple prior biopsies or at least one prior biopsy exhibiting atypical hyperplasia (AH), lobular carcinoma in situ (LCIS), ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS).
  • Random periareolar fine needle aspiration (RPFNA) evidence of hyperplasia with atypia within the last three years;
  • Chest or neck radiation before age 30;
  • Mammographic breast density by visual estimate equals or exceeds 50%.
  • Subjects must be willing to continue the same hormonal milieu present at baseline throughout trial (Cannot start or stop any type of hormone replacement therapy with the exception of vagifem or estring).
  • Six months or more must have elapsed from completion of a prevention intervention trial (with exception of a weight reduction trial), ingestion of a selective estrogen receptor modulator (SERM) or aromatase inhibitor (AI) prior to baseline biomarker assessment. .
  • Subjects with a history of AH, LCIS, or ER-positive DCIS by diagnostic biopsy, must have been counseled about appropriate standard prevention therapies such as tamoxifen or raloxifene and are either not eligible or are not interested in standard prevention therapies. Women with DCIS must have had appropriate local therapy (lumpectomy plus radiation or mastectomy). If subject has had a DCIS, at least two months must have elapsed from surgery and/or radiation therapy to the involved breast. Only the contra-lateral (uninvolved breast) will be studied by RPFNA. The subject may not have had any radiation therapy to the contra-lateral breast to be studied
  • Subjects must have had a screening mammogram within 6 months of entering the interventional portion of the study and read as not suspicious for breast cancer or if suspicious must have completed all suggested tests including biopsy and found to have no evidence of cancer. Women must be willing to have an off-study mammogram performed 6 months after study entry.
  • Subjects must have had an RPFNA of the breast within six months prior to entering the intervention portion of the study and be willing to have another RPFNA at ~6.5 months after starting Lovaza™.
  • Tissue Eligibility: Subjects must have cytomorphologic evidence of hyperplasia with atypia or borderline atypia (Masood score > 13). There must be ≥500 epithelial cells on the slide for cytomorphology. There must be sufficient reserved methanol-formalin- fixed material for quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR). Frozen tissue must also have been obtained for fatty acid analysis, reverse phase proteomics, adipokines and cytokines, and RT-qPCR.
  • Subjects must be willing to undergo phlebotomy at baseline and 6 months and 6.5 months. Approximately 3 tablespoons of blood will be obtained at baseline and 6 months and 6.5 months or 6 tablespoons if the subject decides to participate in the optional monocyte cytokine release assay .
  • Subjects must produce a spot urine sample at
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Data sourced from ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT01252290). Outcome figures and adverse-event rates are extracted automatically from the registry's posted results and are provided for clinician reference, not as a substitute for the primary publication. Informational only — not medical advice.

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