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Trial details imported from ClinicalTrials.gov

For full trial details, please see the original record at https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00419679




Registration number
NCT00419679
Ethics application status
Date submitted
7/01/2007
Date registered
9/01/2007
Date last updated
9/01/2007

Titles & IDs
Public title
Use of Hair to Diagnose Breast Cancer
Scientific title
A Prospective Blinded Study to Evaluate and Characterise an Assay for the Diagnosis of Breast Cancer Using Synchrotron-Derived X-Ray Diffraction of Hair Fibres.
Secondary ID [1] 0 0
FT3.6k-2006
Universal Trial Number (UTN)
Trial acronym
Linked study record

Health condition
Health condition(s) or problem(s) studied:
Breast Neoplasms 0 0
Condition category
Condition code
Cancer 0 0 0 0
Breast

Intervention/exposure
Study type
Interventional
Description of intervention(s) / exposure
Comparator / control treatment
Control group

Outcomes
Primary outcome [1] 0 0
The primary outcome is the determination of the accuracy (sensitivity and specificity) of the x-ray diffraction test for breast cancer using hair. Sensitivity is defined as the proportion of all positive Fermiscan tests that are true positives.
Timepoint [1] 0 0
Secondary outcome [1] 0 0
The prevalence of a positive x-ray diffraction hair test and a negative mammogram, and of a negative hair test and a positive mammogram
Timepoint [1] 0 0

Eligibility
Key inclusion criteria
* Adult women (aged >20) who are undergoing mammography at the Mater Hospital, Sydney, and
* Who are willing and able to provide informed consent; and
* Who have usable scalp and/or pubic hair
Minimum age
20 Years
Maximum age
No limit
Sex
Females
Can healthy volunteers participate?
No
Key exclusion criteria
* Women who have dyed or permed their scalp hair within the previous 6 weeks and whose pubic hair is unavailable;
* Women with a history of breast cancer ever or other cancers (excluding non-melanoma skin cancer and CIN [cervical intra-epithelial neoplasia]) within 5 years.

Study design
Purpose of the study
Diagnosis
Allocation to intervention
Randomised controlled trial
Procedure for enrolling a subject and allocating the treatment (allocation concealment procedures)
Methods used to generate the sequence in which subjects will be randomised (sequence generation)
Masking / blinding
Blinded (masking used)
Who is / are masked / blinded?



Intervention assignment
Single group
Other design features
Phase
Phase 1
Type of endpoint/s
Statistical methods / analysis

Recruitment
Recruitment status
UNKNOWN
Data analysis
Reason for early stopping/withdrawal
Other reasons
Date of first participant enrolment
Anticipated
Actual
1/12/2006
Date of last participant enrolment
Anticipated
Actual
Date of last data collection
Anticipated
Actual
Sample size
Target
Accrual to date
Final
Recruitment in Australia
Recruitment state(s)
NSW
Recruitment hospital [1] 0 0
The Mater Hospital - Sydney
Recruitment postcode(s) [1] 0 0
2065 - Sydney

Funding & Sponsors
Primary sponsor type
Commercial sector/industry
Name
Fermiscan Ltd
Address
Country

Ethics approval
Ethics application status

Summary
Brief summary
Trial website
Trial related presentations / publications
Public notes

Contacts
Principal investigator
Name 0 0
Phillip Yuile, MBBS (Hons), FRNZCR
Address 0 0
The Mater Hospital, Sydney
Country 0 0
Phone 0 0
Fax 0 0
Email 0 0
Contact person for public queries
Name 0 0
Peter French, BSc, MSc, PhD
Address 0 0
Country 0 0
Phone 0 0
+61292454460
Fax 0 0
Email 0 0
pfrench@fermiscan.com.au
Contact person for scientific queries

No information has been provided regarding IPD availability


What supporting documents are/will be available?

No Supporting Document Provided



Results publications and other study-related documents

No documents have been uploaded by study researchers.

Results not provided in https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00419679