Clinical trial NCT01178736: Early Detection of Cancers in Low Resource Countries
Official title: Efficacy of a Combined Program for Early Detection of Breast and Gynecological Cancers in Low Resource Countries
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Conditions: Breast Neoplasms
Uterine Cervical Neoplasms
Ovarian Neoplasms
Endometrial Neoplasms
Keywords: neoplasms
Lead sponsor: Woman's Cancer Foundation
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2010-08-10
Enrollment: 36000
Sex: FEMALE
Minimum age (years): 30
Maximum age (years): 64
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: CASE_ONLY
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Brazil has two rural hospitals serving a population of roughly 46,000 people (Nova Andradina) inside Mato Grosso do Sul, which has a population of over 2 million. Cambodia has a population of over 1 million inside the Phnom Penh metropolitan area. India has a population of more than 1.3 million inside the state of Goa. According to the NFHS-2, nearly 30 percent of rural Goan women live 10 or more kilometers away from a primary health center.

Brief summary: The purpose of this study is to implement a community-based combined program for early detection of breast, cervical, ovarian and endometrial cancer in low-resource countries delivered through a free standing or a mobile Well Woman Clinic. The goals of this program are to downstage cancers and improve mortality rates using low-cost early detection methods. These programs will be implemented in regions where early cancer detection strategies are not in place and cancers present at advanced stages with resultant high mortality. Currently, there are three target project sites: Cambodia (June 2011), India (June 2011), and Brazil (March 2011). Memorandums of Understanding have been secured with local health organizations in each region to establish clinic operations. Each clinic would serve an approximate target population of 100,000 amongst whom about 12,000 eligible women (4-5,000 annually) will be invited to be screened for breast and cervical cancer over a three-year time span.

Detailed description: We will study the use of sonographic screening in addition to Clinical Breast Examination in low resource settings where screening programs are not currently in place and establishing a population based mammographic screening would be expensive, resource intensive, and difficult if not impossible to implement. The effectiveness of the screening and diagnostic methodology used for early detection of breast, cervical, ovarian and endometrial cancers in low resource settings will be studied. The program would involve screening of asymptomatic women for Breast and Cervical cancer and diagnostic assessment of symptomatic women for Ovarian and Endometrial cancer. Women in the age group of 30-59 yrs will be screened once every three years utilizing the following methods: Breast - clinical breast examination \[CBE\] and Sonography, followed by Fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) of screen positive cases; Cervical - Human Papilloma Virus DNA testing followed by Cryotherapy of screen positive cases (Single visit, screen and treat approach); Ovarian - Transvaginal sonogram and clinical evaluation; Endometrial - Transvaginal sonographic assessment of the endometrial stripe.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Breast Cancer: women age 35-64
* Cervical Cancer: women age 30-59
* Ovarian Cancer: symptomatic post menopausal women age 50-64
* Endometrial Cancer: symptomatic post menopausal women age 50-64

Exclusion Criteria:

* women under the age of 30

Primary outcomes:
measure: The Effectiveness of an Innovative, Low-Cost Screening and Diagnostic Methodology
timeFrame: Three (3) year interval
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Effectiveness of CBE and Ultrasonography for Breast Cancer Detection
timeFrame: Three (3) year interval
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Sao Paolo
country: Brazil
facility: Hospital de Cancer de Barretos
city: Phnom Penh
country: Cambodia
facility: Sihanouk Hospital Center of Hope, Hope Worldwide Cambodia
city: Goa
country: India
facility: Manipal Healthcare Group
Study officials:
affiliation: M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas
name: Weiwei Yang, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
name: Diljeet K Singh, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: University of Sao Paolo
name: Adhemar Longatto Filho, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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