The purpose of the project is to set up a national, prospective, longitudinal, multicenter cohort study with associated satellites, a tumor registry platform, to document uniform data on characteristics, molecular diagnostics, treatment and course of disease, to collect patient-reported outcomes and to establish a decentralized biobank for patients with breast cancer in Germany.
OPAL is a national, observational, prospective, longitudinal, multicenter cohort study (tumor registry platform) with the purpose to record information on the antineoplastic treatment of breast cancer in Germany. The registry will follow patients for up to five years. It will identify common therapeutic sequences and changes in the treatment of the disease. At inclusion, data in patient characteristics, comorbidities, tumor characteristics and previous treatments are collected. During the course of observation data on all systemic treatments, radiotherapies, surgeries, and outcome are documented. Health-related quality of life in patients with breast cancer will be evaluated for up to five years.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
5,000
Multiple sites all over germany
Many Locations, Germany
Treatment reality
Description of treatment reality (Course of systemic treatments and sequential treatments) applied in German routine practice measured as the frequency of the various systemic treatments applied per line of therapy.
Time frame: 5 years
Best Response
Documentation of response rates per line of treatment.
Time frame: 5 years
Progression-free survival
Documentation of progression-free survival per line of treatment.
Time frame: 5 years
Overall survival
Documentation of date of death.
Time frame: 5 years
Health-related quality of life (Patient-reported outcome)
EORTC QLQ-C30 core questionnaire and additional items.
Time frame: 3.5 years
Disease-free survival
Documentation of disease-free survival.
Time frame: 5 years
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