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Brief Title: A Feasibility Study With Iressa in Resistant Cytokeratin-Positive Tumor Cells Circulating in the Blood of Women With Breast Cancer
Official Title: A Pilot Feasibility Study to Evaluate the Efficacy of ZD1839 (IRESSA) in Eliminating Chemo- and Hormone- Resistant Cytokeratin-Positive Tumour Cells Circulating in the Blood of Women With Breast Cancer
Study ID: NCT00428896
Brief Summary: Based on preclinical data, ZD1839 is considered a novel and promising therapeutic approach with potential application in the treatment of human breast cancer. Therefore it could be very important and clinically relevant to know if ZD1839 is capable of eliminating occult tumour cells circulating in the blood of breast cancer patients
Detailed Description:
Minimum Age: 18 Years
Eligible Ages: ADULT, OLDER_ADULT
Sex: FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers: No
University Hospital of Crete, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
Name: Vassilis Georgoulias, MD
Affiliation: University Hospital of Crete, Dep of Medical Oncology
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR