Clinical trialNCT00068328CompletedObservational

Chemotherapy Decisions and Outcomes in Older Women With Newly Diagnosed Breast Cancer

SponsorAlliance for Clinical Trials in OncologyEnrollment1,706Breast CancerPsychosocial Effects of Cancer and Its Treatment

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Summary

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RATIONALE: Studying how older women make treatment decisions and how these decisions affect the outcome of treatment may help doctors plan more effective treatments and improve patient quality of life. PURPOSE: This clinical trial is studying how a patient's treatment preferences and decisions about chemotherapy affect the outcome of treatment in older women with newly diagnosed breast cancer.

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Investigators

The overall officials registered on this study. Names that resolve to a FindMyKOL profile link to it; the rest are shown as registered.

Jeanne Mandelblatt, MD, MPH
Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center
Study Chair
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Sites

85 registered facilities, with the per-site recruitment status where the registry publishes one. ClinicalTrials.gov does not publish per-site enrollment counts.

United States

Camino Medical Group - Treatment Center
Mountain View, California, United States
Palo Alto Medical Foundation
Palo Alto, California, United States
Facility name not stated
Pismo Beach, California, United States
Bendheim Cancer Center at Greenwich Hospital
Greenwich, Connecticut, United States
Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States
Washington Cancer Institute at Washington Hospital Center
Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States
Cancer Center of South Florida Foundation, Incorporated
Lake Worth, Florida, United States
Louis A. Weiss Memorial Hospital
Chicago, Illinois, United States
University of Chicago Cancer Research Center
Chicago, Illinois, United States
la Grange Memorial Hospital
La Grange, Illinois, United States
Center for Cancer Care at Osf Saint Anthony Medical Center
Rockford, Illinois, United States
Elkhart Clinic, Llc
Elkhart, Indiana, United States
Elkhart General Hospital
Elkhart, Indiana, United States
Michiana Hematology-Oncology, Pc - Elkhart
Elkhart, Indiana, United States
Howard Community Hospital
Kokomo, Indiana, United States
Center for Cancer Therapy at Laporte Hospital and Health Services
La Porte, Indiana, United States
Suniti Medical Corporation
Merrillville, Indiana, United States
Michiana Hematology-Oncology, Pc - South Bend
Mishawaka, Indiana, United States
Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center
Mishawaka, Indiana, United States
Michiana Hematology Oncology Pc - Plymouth
Plymouth, Indiana, United States
Ccop - Northern Indiana Cr Consortium
South Bend, Indiana, United States
Memorial Hospital of South Bend
South Bend, Indiana, United States
South Bend Clinic
South Bend, Indiana, United States
Michiana Hematology Oncology Pc - la Porte
Westville, Indiana, United States
Maine Center for Cancer Medicine and Blood Disorders - Scarborough
Scarborough, Maine, United States
Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Cancer Institute at Franklin Square Hospital Center
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Sturdy Memorial Hospital
Attleboro, Massachusetts, United States
Dana-Farber/brigham and Women'S Cancer Center
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Dana-Farber/harvard Cancer Center at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Addison Gilbert Hospital
Gloucester, Massachusetts, United States
Cape Cod Hospital
Hyannis, Massachusetts, United States
Lowell General Hospital
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States
Battle Creek Health System Cancer Care Center
Battle Creek, Michigan, United States
Mecosta County Medical Center
Big Rapids, Michigan, United States
Butterworth Hospital at Spectrum Health
Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
Ccop - Grand Rapids
Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
Lacks Cancer Center at Saint Mary'S Health Care
Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
Mercy General Health Partners
Muskegon, Michigan, United States
Michiana Hematology Oncology Pc - Niles
Niles, Michigan, United States

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Drugs studied

No drug or biological interventions are in our data for this study. It may test a procedure, device or behavioral intervention, or the intervention list isn't in our current snapshot. See the registry record ↗. Why? →

Registration & key dates

Registry attributes as recorded on the ClinicalTrials.gov study record.

Start: 31 Aug 2003
Primary completion: 31 Dec 2006
Completion: 31 Dec 2016
Last update posted: 8 Aug 2017
Registered enrollment: 1,706
Registry id: NCT00068328

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Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, via the CTTI AACT database, data as of 4 Nov 2026. Registry facts are shown as registered by the study sponsor; FindMyKOL does not interpret them.