The purpose of this study is to look at how effective neoadjuvant (before surgery) endocrine therapy (NET) is in participants with invasive lobular carcinoma (ILC) who have breast-conserving surgery (BCS). The main purpose of the study is to see if NET reduces the chance of having cancer cells at the edges of tissue removed during surgery (positive margins).
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
176
The endocrine therapy used for the NET in this study will be anastrozole, letrozole, exemestane, or tamoxifen.
Memorial Sloan Kettering Basking Ridge (Limited Protocol Activities)
Basking Ridge, New Jersey, United States
RECRUITINGMemorial Sloan Kettering Monmouth (Limited Protocol Activities)
Middletown, New Jersey, United States
RECRUITINGMemorial Sloan Kettering Bergen (Limited Protocol Activities)
Montvale, New Jersey, United States
RECRUITINGMemorial Sloan Kettering Suffolk - Commack (Limited Protocol Activities)
Commack, New York, United States
RECRUITINGMemorial Sloan Kettering Westchester (Limited Protocol Activities)
Harrison, New York, United States
RECRUITINGMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (All Protocol Activities)
New York, New York, United States
RECRUITINGMemorial Sloan Kettering Nassau (Limited Protocol Activities)
Uniondale, New York, United States
RECRUITINGRate of positive surgical margins after breast cancer surgery
To prospectively evaluate rates of positive surgical margins after initial breast cancer surgery/BCS among postmenopausal women with cT2-3 N0-1 ER+/HER2- ILC who have undergone a course of NET.
Time frame: up to 3 months
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