Lymphedema prevention trial: a new hope for breast cancer patients
NCT ID NCT06989099
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study tests if repairing the lymphatic system during breast cancer surgery can prevent lymphedema, a painful arm swelling. 50 women with breast cancer will receive this reconstruction. The goal is to see if this approach reduces the risk of developing lymphedema.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Phase 2
Tests whether the treatment actually works, and watches for side effects, in a larger group.
- Participants
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About 50 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Sep 2024
- Expected to finish
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Aug 2029
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: 1. Participants diagnosed with IBC. 2. Participants who have been scheduled for ILR/pLVB by their treating physician/surgeon at the time of their axillary lymphadenectomy for breast cancer 3. Participants willing and able to comply with the study protocol requirements and all study-related visit requirements. 4. Female subjects at least 18 years old and capable of providing consent to participate. 5. Females of childbearing potential must have a negative urine pregnancy test within 36 hours prior to study drug administration and agree to use a medically accepted method of contraception for a period of one month following the study. Exclusion Criteria: 1. Patients known to be pregnant or breast-feeding. 2. Patients with known or suspected iodine or ICG hypersensitivity. 3. Patients unable to remain stationary for one hour. 4. Active cellulitis. 5. Subjects with a preoperative clinical lymphedema diagnosis. 6. Subjects undergoing bilateral ALND. 7. Subjects requiring immediate chest wall reconstruction with a pedicled or microvascular flap, or those that have received preoperative radiation therapy. 8. Patients with BMI \>45kg/m2.
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Conditions
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The places running it
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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MD Anderson Cancer Center
RECRUITINGHouston, Texas, 77030, United States
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