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Trial details imported from ClinicalTrials.gov

For full trial details, please see the original record at https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00390377




Registration number
NCT00390377
Ethics application status
Date submitted
17/10/2006
Date registered
19/10/2006
Date last updated
19/10/2006

Titles & IDs
Public title
Use of Hair to Diagnose Breast Cancer
Scientific title
A Study to Evaluate a Test for the Diagnosis of Breast Cancer Using X-Ray Diffraction of Hair Fibres.
Secondary ID [1] 0 0
FT240-2006
Universal Trial Number (UTN)
Trial acronym
Linked study record

Health condition
Health condition(s) or problem(s) studied:
Breast Cancer 0 0
Condition category
Condition code
Cancer 0 0 0 0
Breast

Intervention/exposure
Study type
Interventional
Description of intervention(s) / exposure
Comparator / control treatment
Control group

Outcomes

Eligibility
Key inclusion criteria
* Adult women (aged >20) who are undergoing mammography, and
* Who are willing and able to provide informed consent; and
* Who have usable scalp hair
Minimum age
20 Years
Maximum age
No limit
Sex
Females
Can healthy volunteers participate?
No
Key exclusion criteria
* Women with a history of breast cancer ever or other cancers (excluding non-melanoma skin cancer and CIN: cervical intra-epithelial neoplasia) within 5 years.

Study design
Purpose of the study
Diagnosis
Allocation to intervention
Non-randomised trial
Procedure for enrolling a subject and allocating the treatment (allocation concealment procedures)
Methods used to generate the sequence in which subjects will be randomised (sequence generation)
Masking / blinding
Blinded (masking used)
Who is / are masked / blinded?



Intervention assignment
Single group
Other design features
Phase
Phase 2
Type of endpoint/s
Statistical methods / analysis

Recruitment
Recruitment status
UNKNOWN
Data analysis
Reason for early stopping/withdrawal
Other reasons
Date of first participant enrolment
Anticipated
Actual
1/10/2006
Date of last participant enrolment
Anticipated
Actual
Date of last data collection
Anticipated
Actual
Sample size
Target
Accrual to date
Final
Recruitment in Australia
Recruitment state(s)
NSW
Recruitment hospital [1] 0 0
St George Private Hospital - Sydney
Recruitment postcode(s) [1] 0 0
2217 - Sydney

Funding & Sponsors
Primary sponsor type
Commercial sector/industry
Name
Fermiscan Ltd
Address
Country

Ethics approval
Ethics application status

Summary
Brief summary
This study aims to perform x-ray diffraction analysis of blinded hair samples from women with a documented health status, to validate the previous findings of James et al who described that x-ray diffraction patterns of human hair can distinguish samples from healthy subjects from those of diseased subjects, specifically those suffering from breast cancer.

The primary hypothesis is that x-ray diffraction of hair can be used to distinguish hair from patients with confirmed breast cancer from subjects without detectable breast cancer.
Trial website
https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00390377
Trial related presentations / publications
James V, Corino G, Robertson T, Dutton N, Halas D, Boyd A, Bentel J, Papadimitriou J. Early diagnosis of breast cancer by hair diffraction. Int J Cancer. 2005 May 10;114(6):969-72. doi: 10.1002/ijc.20824.
James V, Kearsley J, Irving T, Amemiya Y, Cookson D. Using hair to screen for breast cancer. Nature. 1999 Mar 4;398(6722):33-4. doi: 10.1038/17949. No abstract available.
Meyer P, James VJ. Experimental confirmation of a distinctive diffraction pattern in hair from women with breast cancer. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2001 Jun 6;93(11):873-5. doi: 10.1093/jnci/93.11.873. No abstract available.
James VJ. The traps and pitfalls inherent in the correlation of changes in the fibre diffraction pattern of hair with breast cancer. Phys Med Biol. 2003 Jan 21;48(2):L5-9; discussion L11-3. doi: 10.1088/0031-9155/48/2/101.
Kimura M, Tanaka N, Kimura Y, Miyake K, Kitaura T, Fukuchi H. Pharmacokinetic interaction of zonisamide in rats. Effect of other antiepileptics on zonisamide. J Pharmacobiodyn. 1992 Nov;15(11):631-9. doi: 10.1248/bpb1978.15.631.
James V. False-positive results in studies of changes in fiber diffraction of hair from patients with breast cancer may not be false. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2003 Jan 15;95(2):170-1. doi: 10.1093/jnci/95.2.170. No abstract available. Erratum In: J Natl Cancer Inst. 2003 Feb 19;95(4):334.
Public notes

Contacts
Principal investigator
Name 0 0
Ronald Shnier, MBBS, FRACR
Address 0 0
Symbion Health
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Phone 0 0
Fax 0 0
Email 0 0
Contact person for public queries
Name 0 0
Peter W French, BSc, MSc, PhD
Address 0 0
Country 0 0
Phone 0 0
+61292454460
Fax 0 0
Email 0 0
[email protected]
Contact person for scientific queries



Summary Results

For IPD and results data, please see https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00390377