Chronic Pain After Operation for Breast Cancer

This study is enrolling participants by invitation only.
Sponsor:
Collaborators:
Danish Breast Cancer Cooperative Group
Danish Cancer Society
Information provided by:
Rigshospitalet, Denmark
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
NCT00739544
First received: August 20, 2008
Last updated: NA
Last verified: August 2008
History: No changes posted

August 20, 2008
August 20, 2008
August 2008
March 2010   (final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Reference values on: Cold and cold detection threshold,Paradoxical heat sensation,Thermal sensory limen procedure,Cold and heat pain threshold,Mechanical detection and pain threshold and sensitivity,Vibration detection threshold,Pressure pain threshold [ Time Frame: From 08-20-2008 to 11-1-2008 test is performed two times with app one week in between ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
Same as current
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Chronic Pain After Operation for Breast Cancer
Examination of Healthy Female Subjects in the Project: Disposing Factors for Chronic Pain After Operation for Breast Cancer

The purpose of this study is to identify intraindividual as well as iatrogenic factors disposing for the development of chronic and acute pains after surgery for breast cancer in order to improve treatment and prevent the development of acute and chronic postoperative pains.

Surgery for breast cancer is followed by acute undesirable sequelae (pain, nausea, vomiting, psycho-social adaptation) and late sequelae with discomfort or more severe neuropathic pain problems in the surgical area due to nerve damage or adjuvant-/radiotherapy. The late sequelae occur in 30-50% of patients but the exact mechanisms (preoperative disposing factors, intraoperative nerve damage/inflammatory response), acute postoperative pain and psychosocial factors remain to be determined in large, detailed, well-described studies, including stratification to modern breast cancer treatment (sentinel node strategy/ radiotherapy/ chemotherapy). The present study will describe in detail preoperative psychosocial/genetic pain mechanisms, intraoperative technique, multi-modal anaesthesia and opioid-reduced analgesia with a detailed, early and late postoperative follow-up with neurophysiological assessment in the surgical area and randomised studies on preventive therapy.

Interventional
Phase 0
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: Single Blind (Subject)
Primary Purpose: Prevention
Pain Threshold
Other: 1
Testing with thermal sensor testing device, von Frey filaments, cotton wisp, turning fork, pressure gauge device
1
Quantitative sensory testing (QST) of healthy women to create reference values for QST evaluation of women treated for breast cancer
Intervention: Other: 1
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*   Includes publications given by the data provider as well as publications identified by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number) in Medline.
 
Enrolling by invitation
20
March 2010
March 2010   (final data collection date for primary outcome measure)

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Healthy women

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Pregnancy
  • Lactating
Female
18 Years to 70 Years
Yes
Contact information is only displayed when the study is recruiting subjects
Denmark
 
NCT00739544
RH2101project.1.2008
No
Rune Gärtner MD, Department of Breast Cancer Surgery, RH, Copenhagen University, Denmark
Rigshospitalet, Denmark
  • Danish Breast Cancer Cooperative Group
  • Danish Cancer Society
Study Director: Niels Kroman, MD, DMSc Department of Breast Surgery, Centre of Head and Orthopaedics, Rigshospitalet (University of Copenhagen), Denmark
Study Chair: Henrik Kehlet, MD Ph.D DMSc Section for Surgical Pathophysiology, Juliane Marie Centre, Rigshospitalet (University of Copenhagen), Denmark
Rigshospitalet, Denmark
August 2008

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