Clinical trial NCT00001496: Establishment of Normal Breast Epithelial Cell Lines From Patients at High Risk for Breast Cancer
Official title: Establishment of Normal Breast Epithelial Cell Lines From Patients at High Risk for Breast Cancer
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Breast Neoplasm
Hereditary Neoplastic Syndrome
Keywords: BRCA-1
Familial Breast Cancer
Breast Cell Culture
High Risk
Lead sponsor: National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC)
Sponsor class: NIH
First posted: 1999-11-04
Enrollment: 50
Sex: ALL
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary: Women who are at high risk for breast cancer, either because of linkage to high risk breast and ovarian cancer families, or because of a carcinoma in the opposite breast, will be studied. Women will have a physical examination and mammography to ensure that no breast abnormalities are present. Eligible women will undergo biopsy of the breast to obtain normal breast tissue. Short-term cell cultures will be established from this tissue and early passages of the short-term cell lines will be stored. A bank of high risk normal mammary epithelial cells will be established. To further characterize the mammary epithelial cells in this population of women, cell cultures will subsequently be analyzed for their growth and metabolic properties, sensitivity to chemopreventive agents, steroid receptor characteristics, oncogene expression and regulation, and genetic changes.

Detailed description: Women who are at high risk for breast cancer, either because of linkage to high risk breast and ovarian cancer families, or because of a carcinoma in the opposite breast, will be studied. Women will have a physical examination and mammography to ensure that no breast abnormalities are present. Eligible women will undergo biopsy of the breast to obtain normal breast tissue. Short-term cell cultures will be established from this tissue and early passages of the short-term cell lines will be stored. A bank of high risk normal mammary epithelial cells will be established. To further characterize the mammary epithelial cells in this population of women, cell cultures will subsequently be analyzed for their growth and metabolic properties, sensitivity to chemopreventive agents, steroid receptor characteristics, oncogene expression and regulation, and genetic changes.

Eligibility criteria: Women at high risk for breast cancer, either because they are a member of a high risk breast or ovarian cancer family, or because of a carcinoma of the opposite breast.

Normal mammogram within past 3 months.

No suspicious breast or axillary lesions on physical examination.

No major cardiopulmonary, hepatic or renal disorders.

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Locations:
city: Bethesda
country: United States
facility: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
state: Maryland
Study officials:
References:
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citation: Wooster R, Neuhausen SL, Mangion J, Quirk Y, Ford D, Collins N, Nguyen K, Seal S, Tran T, Averill D, et al. Localization of a breast cancer susceptibility gene, BRCA2, to chromosome 13q12-13. Science. 1994 Sep 30;265(5181):2088-90. doi: 10.1126/science.8091231.