A Multi-modality Imaging Assessment of Chemobrain (NCT00708045) | Clinical Trial Compass
CompletedPhase 1
A Multi-modality Imaging Assessment of Chemobrain
United States34 participantsStarted 2007-05-09
Plain-language summary
Patients must have had their breast cancer treated at the Huntsman Cancer Institute to be eligible for this trial.
OBJECTIVES:
To use quantitative FDG-positron emission tomography (PET), functional MRI (fMRI) and co-registered anatomic MRI imaging to better understand the cognitive disorder known as "chemobrain" which effects up to 16 -50% of individuals receiving long-term adjuvant chemotherapy \[Tannock 2004, Matsuda 2005\]. The study is exploratory to obtain proof of feasibility pilot data to support an eventual submission to the NIH.
Neuropsychological Testing A battery of testing will be used to assess the subjective complaints of cognitive impairment in the symptomatic patient cohort. Similarly the same battery of tests will be used to assure that the non-symptomatic patient control group and the age-matched normal controls do not exhibit any cognitive impairment. The following set of clinical tests will be performed to assess the degree of cognitive impairment in all subjects.
Who can participate
Age range
18 Years – 65 Years
Sex
FEMALE
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Inclusion criteria: Pre-screening will be conducted to ensure that all subjects are in good neurologic health with no history of seizures or other neurological disorders, and that they have no ferromagnetic implants or clips in their body. Subjects will be right-handed exclusive-English speakers with normal hearing.
Exclusion criteria: If a subject is found to have profound or severe depression after the Neuropsychological and Cognitive Testing session they may be excluded from the imaging portion of the study. This is justified as the imaging session would not be valid as the biologic correlates of depression rather than chemobrain would be imaged. Subjects found to have profound or severe depression will be notified and appropriate referral made to get them the necessary medical care to treat their depression.
Three cohorts of 8 women each under the age of 65 will be recruited for this exploratory pilot study. The "affected patient cohort" will be woman with complaints of cognitive or memory dysfunction who have received adjuvant chemotherapy for the treatment of breast cancer. These patients will be those being treated at Huntsman Cancer Hospital and be the patients of Dr Saundra Buys or Dr John Ward. The second "patient control cohort" will be age-matched woman with breast cancer who have undergone similar adjuvant chemotherapy for the same amount of time who have no complaints of memory dysfunction. Again these are primarily patients of Drs. Buys or Ward. The non-patie…
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What they're measuring
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To use quantitative FDG-PET, functional MRI (fMRI) and co-registered anatomic MRI imaging to better understand the cognitive disorder known as "chemobrain" which effects up to 16 -50% of individuals receiving long-term adjuvant chemotherapy