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NCT Number: NCT00322894

Expanded Breast Cancer Registry and Tissue Repository

The Expanded Breast Cancer Registry and Tissue Repository Research Team (EBCR-RT) is comprised of University of Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center faculty and staff whose goals are to improve the outcomes and quality of life of patients with breast cancer, and ultimately to eradicate and cure breast cancer. One focus of the EBCR-RT is the creation an infrastructure that can potentially be adopted as a model for a statewide registry and tissue repository for the discovery of biomarkers for this disease.

The goals of the EBCR are:

1. To register patients diagnosed with breast cancer and information relevant to their diagnosis (such as stage, grade, hormone receptor status, etc), treatment (surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, hormone therapy, etc), and survivorship (Quallity of Life, etc). 2. To collect relevant demographics including age, menopausal status, race/ethnicity, body mass index (BMI), place of residence, behaviors (smoking, alcohol intake, etc) 3. To establish a paired tumor tissue and blood sample for each relevant time-point (as defined in the protocol), which will be stored in the Tissue Bank Shared Resource Facility for future hypothesis-driven research.

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Key information

Conditions

Breast Cancer Breast Diseases Breast Neoplasms Neoplasms Neoplasms by Site Skin Diseases Skin and Connective Tissue Diseases

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Observational

Primary location

University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center

Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87131, United States

About this study

Institutions and/or physicians are required to report each new diagnosis of breast cancer to the New Mexico Tumor Registry (NMTR). The NMTR is a valuable database that provides information on breast cancer, including trends in incidence and survival. However, relevant information on breast cancer prognosis and treatment is either not routinely collected or not readily available to the NMTR. We propose to establish an Expanded Breast Cancer Registry and Tissue Repository (EBCR) at this institution that could serve as an infrastructure for collection of this information. Furthermore, a tissue bank will be established for collection of paired tissue (tumor, buccal cells and blood sample) from patients diagnosed with breast cancer who consent to providing excess/extra tissue and additional blood for the Tissue Repository. This tissue bank will serve as a repository from which researchers can access tissue samples to conduct laboratory-based studies of genetic determinants of breast cancer risks, prognosis and survival in women with breast cancer seen in this institution.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • All patients diagnosed with breast cancer, regardless of gender, ethnicity/race, stage of disease or treatment, are eligible.
  • Patients must be less than or equal to one year from diagnosis of non-metastatic breast cancer OR less than or equal to one year from initiation of treatment for metastatic disease.
  • Pathological diagnosis of breast cancer
  • Expected availability of clinical follow up data
  • Eighteen years old or older
  • Participants must be willing to provide written, informed consent obtained in accordance with institutional and federal guidelines

Exclusion criteria

  • Not specified.

Treatment and study plan

Primary outcomes

  1. Identify risk factors for breast cancer

    Time frame: 4 years

    Prospectively collect demographic, risk factor, diagnosis and treatment data and tissues (blood, buccal cells and tumor if appicable) for breast cancer patients seen at the UNM Cancer Center to assist in identification of unique factors that may impact patient prognosis in this population.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Establish a centralized tissue repository

    Time frame: 4 years

    Establish a centralized tissue repository (breast and related tissues) to serve as a resource for current and future scientific studies.

Other outcomes

  1. Assess clinico-pathologiv variables and outcomes

    Time frame: 10 years

    Utilize the Extended Breast Cancer Repository clinical database to determine the relationship between clinico-pathologic variables and patient outcomes.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

New Mexico Cancer Research Alliance

Other

Collaborators

  • University of New Mexico

Registry information

Important dates

Study start
2006
Primary completion
2016
Study completion
2025
First posted
May 8, 2006
Registry last updated
May 22, 2025

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