Aspirin on CTCs of Advanced Breast and Colorectal Cancer

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether Aspirin could affect the number and subtype of circulating tumor cells of metastatic breast cancer and colorectal cancer.

Timeline

Start

2015-11

Primary completion

2016-11

Completion

2017-02

Publications

• Background Ksiazkiewicz M, Markiewicz A, Zaczek AJ. Epithelial-mesenchymal transition: a hallmark in metastasis formation linking circulating tumor cells and cancer stem cells. Pathobiology. 2012;79(4):195-208. doi: 10.1159/000337106. Epub 2012 Apr 4.
• Background Rothwell PM, Wilson M, Price JF, Belch JF, Meade TW, Mehta Z. Effect of daily aspirin on risk of cancer metastasis: a study of incident cancers during randomised controlled trials. Lancet. 2012 Apr 28;379(9826):1591-601. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(12)60209-8. Epub 2012 Mar 21.
• Background Maity G, De A, Das A, Banerjee S, Sarkar S, Banerjee SK. Aspirin blocks growth of breast tumor cells and tumor-initiating cells and induces reprogramming factors of mesenchymal to epithelial transition. Lab Invest. 2015 Jul;95(7):702-17. doi: 10.1038/labinvest.2015.49. Epub 2015 Apr 13.
• Yang L, Lv Z, Xia W, Zhang W, Xin Y, Yuan H, Chen Y, Hu X, Lv Y, Xu Q, Weng X, Ni C. The effect of aspirin on circulating tumor cells in metastatic colorectal and breast cancer patients: a phase II trial study. Clin Transl Oncol. 2018 Jul;20(7):912-921. doi: 10.1007/s12094-017-1806-z. Epub 2017 Dec 14.

Drugs

Indications

No indication recorded.