Breast Cancer Clinical Trials

It looks like a Phase 2 study was just completed on metestatic women http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00842998?term=herceptin+only&rank=5

and a phase three is ongoing
and recruiting metestatic women

http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00968968?term=herceptin+only&rank=9

to view all clinic trials go to http://clinicaltrials.gov

Unfortunately there isn't just one place you can go to see all clinical trials that are currently open. One source is clinicaltrials.gov which is a reliable source for clinical trials. CenterWatch is another and then individual hospitals/medical centers may have ongoing trials that aren't listed on these resources. When I checked clinicaltrials.gov and typed in "inflammatory breast cancer" I got 16 trials that are recruiting and include IBC patients. There were 3 trials with 'unknown' status, and 1 'not yet recruiting'. A few of these are registry trials and not treatment related.

It's always useful to consider a clinical trial when exploring treatment options but also very important to look carefully at the trial, who is sponsoring the trial, and how will participation in this trial impact future treatment.

Unfortunately many trials that include IBC patients don't separate out the data on the IBC patients so may not learn info specific to IBC. If we are to learn from clinical trial data the info on IBC patients must be studied on its own and kept separate from locally advanced or other patients.