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Trial details imported from ClinicalTrials.gov

For full trial details, please see the original record at https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00419679




Registration number
NCT00419679
Ethics application status
Date submitted
7/01/2007
Date registered
9/01/2007
Date last updated
9/01/2007

Titles & IDs
Public title
Use of Hair to Diagnose Breast Cancer
Scientific title
A Prospective Blinded Study to Evaluate and Characterise an Assay for the Diagnosis of Breast Cancer Using Synchrotron-Derived X-Ray Diffraction of Hair Fibres.
Secondary ID [1] 0 0
FT3.6k-2006
Universal Trial Number (UTN)
Trial acronym
Linked study record

Health condition
Health condition(s) or problem(s) studied:
Breast Neoplasms 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
Primary outcome [1] 0 0
The primary outcome is the determination of the accuracy (sensitivity and specificity) of the x-ray diffraction test for breast cancer using hair. Sensitivity is defined as the proportion of all positive Fermiscan tests that are true positives.
Timepoint [1] 0 0
Secondary outcome [1] 0 0
The prevalence of a positive x-ray diffraction hair test and a negative mammogram, and of a negative hair test and a positive mammogram
Timepoint [1] 0 0

Eligibility
Key inclusion criteria
* Adult women (aged >20) who are undergoing mammography at the Mater Hospital, Sydney, and
* Who are willing and able to provide informed consent; and
* Who have usable scalp and/or pubic hair
Minimum age
20 Years
Maximum age
No limit
Sex
Females
Can healthy volunteers participate?
No
Key exclusion criteria
* Women who have dyed or permed their scalp hair within the previous 6 weeks and whose pubic hair is unavailable;
* 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
Randomised controlled 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 1
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
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
The Mater Hospital - Sydney
Recruitment postcode(s) [1] 0 0
2065 - Sydney

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

Ethics approval
Ethics application status

Summary
Brief summary
Trial website
Trial related presentations / publications
Public notes

Contacts
Principal investigator
Name 0 0
Phillip Yuile, MBBS (Hons), FRNZCR
Address 0 0
The Mater Hospital, Sydney
Country 0 0
Phone 0 0
Fax 0 0
Email 0 0
Contact person for public queries
Name 0 0
Peter French, BSc, MSc, PhD
Address 0 0
Country 0 0
Phone 0 0
+61292454460
Fax 0 0
Email 0 0
Contact person for scientific queries

No information has been provided regarding IPD availability


What supporting documents are/will be available?

No Supporting Document Provided



Results publications and other study-related documents

No documents have been uploaded by study researchers.