Elevate! : An Elderly Breast Cancer Cohort Study

NCT ID: NCT03818087

Last Updated: 2025-12-19

Study Results

Results pending

The study team has not published outcome measurements, participant flow, or safety data for this trial yet. Check back later for updates.

Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING

Total Enrollment

253 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2019-02-19

Study Completion Date

2028-11-01

Brief Summary

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This study is focused on understanding how the investigators can improve upon breast cancer and health outcomes for older participants with breast cancer.

Detailed Description

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This study is focused on understanding how the investigators can improve upon breast cancer and health outcomes for older participants with breast cancer, a group of participants who often have low risk cancers, but who may do worse than younger participants with the same kind of cancers. Researchers want to better understand the experiences, barriers, and changes in physical function older participants with breast cancer have.

Conditions

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Breast Cancer

Keywords

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Breast Cancer

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

COHORT

Study Time Perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Study Groups

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Elevate

Participants over the age of 70 years old with early-stage breast cancer will be recruited.

Observational cohort

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Patients will be followed by collecting clinical data, biospecimens, and quality of life assessments over a period of five years from registration.

Interventions

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Observational cohort

Patients will be followed by collecting clinical data, biospecimens, and quality of life assessments over a period of five years from registration.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Age 70 or older at the time of diagnosis (as indicated by the date of breast biopsy)
* No more than 67 patients (1/3) will be aged 70-74, with the remaining patients on study ages 75 or older
* Any gender is eligible
* Invasive, non-metastatic breast cancer at diagnosis
* Those with prior diagnoses of pre-invasive (DCIS) or invasive breast cancer are eligible as long as their current diagnosis is felt by the treating provider to represent a NEW non-metastatic primary invasive breast cancer (e.g. someone with a nodal recurrence from prior disease are not eligible but those with a new contralateral breast cancer 3 years after a first breast cancer would be eligible)
* Any breast cancer subtype is allowed
* Breast cancer-diagnosing biopsy within 90 days of enrollment
* Receiving or will receive medical oncology care (+/- surgical and radiation oncology treatments) at the participating center: DFCI/satellites and affiliate sites
* Patients must be able to understand, speak, and read English or assign a designated caregiver/proxy for the duration of the study who understands, speaks, and reads English and who is willing to assist with filling out the survey components which do not have a validated, translated version. This is because the surveys are not readily available in multiple languages as a whole, although some components (such as the Geriatric Assessment and PROs are readily available in multiple languages).
* If a patient scores 11 or higher on the baseline Orientation-Memory-Concentration Test done at baseline (Appendix E), a proxy/designee must then be assigned to help the patient fill out the questionnaires for the duration of the study in order to participate. The treating provider will also be notified about the cognitive impairment.
* Ability to provide informed consent

Exclusion Criteria

* Pathological or clinical stage 0, IV disease
* Those with nodal or metastatic recurrences at the time of enrollment
* Unable to speak and read English AND no designee who speaks and reads English, as above
* Unable to provide informed consent
Minimum Eligible Age

70 Years

Eligible Sex

FEMALE

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Rachel Freedman, MD, MPH

Primary Investigator

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Rachel A Freedman, MD, MPH

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Locations

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Northern Light Cancer Care

Bangor, Maine, United States

Site Status

Brigham and Women Hospital

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Site Status

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Site Status

Lifespan Cancer Institute

Providence, Rhode Island, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

Other Identifiers

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18-634

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id