High Dose Chemotherapy Plus Peripheral Stem Cell Transplantation Compared With Standard Therapy in Treating Women With Metastatic or Recurrent Breast Cancer

Summary

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Combining chemotherapy with peripheral stem cell transplantation may allow the doctor to give higher doses of chemotherapy drugs and kill more tumor cells. It is not yet known whether standard therapy is more effective than high dose chemotherapy for breast cancer. PURPOSE: Randomized phase III trial to compare the effectiveness of high dose chemotherapy plus peripheral stem cell transplantation with that of standard therapy in treating women with metastatic or recurrent breast cancer that has responded to previous chemotherapy.

Timeline

Start

1997-04-25

Primary completion

2001-04-12

Completion

2008-12-15

Publications

• Results Crump M, Gluck S, Tu D, Stewart D, Levine M, Kirkbride P, Dancey J, O'Reilly S, Shore T, Couban S, Girouard C, Marlin S, Shepherd L, Pritchard KI. Randomized trial of high-dose chemotherapy with autologous peripheral-blood stem-cell support compared with standard-dose chemotherapy in women with metastatic breast cancer: NCIC MA.16. J Clin Oncol. 2008 Jan 1;26(1):37-43. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2007.11.8851. Epub 2007 Nov 19.
• Results Dancey J, Crump M, Gluck S, et al.: Quality of life (QOL) analysis of a randomized trial of high-dose chemotherapy (HDCT) with peripheral stem cell transplant (PSCT) versus standard chemotherapy (SCT) in women with metastatic breast cancer (MBC): National Cancer Institute of Canada Clinical Trials Group study (NCIC CTG) MA-16 . [Abstract] Proceedings of the American Society of Clinical Oncology 22: A-3010, 749, 2003.

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