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- Conditions
- 10006232Breast cancer1000629110006295malignant breast tumor
- Registration Number
- NL-OMON55553
- Lead Sponsor
- niversitair Medisch Centrum Utrecht
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 240
- Self reported pain grade 3-4 (on a scale of 1-4) as assessed by the late
radiation toxicity questionnaire;
- Participation >12 months in the UMBRELLA cohort;
- Previous treatment with radiotherapy for breast cancer;
- Finished surgery and (neo)adjuvant systemic therapy except adjuvant endocrine
therapy, for breast cancer.
- Poor responder (i.e. return of <= 2 UMBRELLA questionnaires);
- Previous HBOT;
- Contra-indications for HBOT (e.g. (severe) COPD/asthma, pacemaker, morbid
obesity, epilepsy in medical history, severe heart failure);
- Current metastatic disease or recurrent breast cancer.
Additional exclusions criteria based on screening visit:
- Inability to follow schedule of all consecutive HBO treatments (e.g. due to
scheduled holidays > 2 days);
- Not meeting criteria for HBOT (e.g. due to complaints similar to late
radiation toxicity, not caused by radiotherapy).
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <p>Patient reported breast/chest wall pain.</p><br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <p>Secondary endpoints are: physical functioning, QoL cosmetic outcome, physician<br /><br>reported pain and radiation toxicity (according to CTCAE criteria version<br /><br>4.03), tissue oxygenation previous to HBOT and after HBOT and side-effects of<br /><br>HBOT.</p><br>
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