A Study to Prevent and Improve Sexual Health Concerns for People With Breast Cancer

Description

Researchers are doing this study to look at whether sexual health counselling and using non-hormonal moisturizer at the start of ovarian suppression may be able to prevent or reduce side effects such as vaginal dryness and sexual dysfunction. Researchers will compare how effective this prevention intervention works compared to the usual approach, which is to treat these side effects after they start. All participants will also complete surveys about their sexual health. This information will help researchers learn more about the sexual health of women with breast cancer receiving ovarian suppression.

Conditions

Improve Sexual Health, Improve Vulvovaginal Health

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Study overview

Researchers are doing this study to look at whether sexual health counselling and using non-hormonal moisturizer at the start of ovarian suppression may be able to prevent or reduce side effects such as vaginal dryness and sexual dysfunction. Researchers will compare how effective this prevention intervention works compared to the usual approach, which is to treat these side effects after they start. All participants will also complete surveys about their sexual health. This information will help researchers learn more about the sexual health of women with breast cancer receiving ovarian suppression.

Randomized Pilot Prevention Trial to Improve Sexual and Vulvovaginal Health Concerns in Premenopausal Female Breast Cancer Patients Receiving Ovarian Suppression

A Study to Prevent and Improve Sexual Health Concerns for People With Breast Cancer

Condition
Improve Sexual Health
Intervention / Treatment

-

Contacts and Locations

Basking Ridge

Memorial Sloan Kettering Basking Ridge (Limited Protocol Activities), Basking Ridge, New Jersey, United States, 07920

Middletown

Memorial Sloan Kettering Monmouth (Limited Protocol Activities), Middletown, New Jersey, United States, 07748

Montvale

Memorial Sloan Kettering Bergen (Limited Protocol Activities), Montvale, New Jersey, United States, 07645

Commack

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center - Suffolk (Limited Protocol Activities), Commack, New York, United States, 11725

Harrison

Memorial Sloan Kettering Westchester (Limited Protocol Activities), Harrison, New York, United States, 10604

New York

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States, 10065

Uniondale

Memorial Sloan Kettering Nassau (Limited Protocol Activities), Uniondale, New York, United States, 11553

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

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Eligibility Criteria

  • * Breast cancer patients with hormone receptor positive breast cancer , stage 0-III
  • * Patients are being initiated on ovarian suppression and endocrine therapy or are within 2 weeks of initiation
  • * Women, 18 years of age or older
  • * Premenopausal or perimenopausal women who have either been pregnant or had at least one menstrual period in the last 24 months or have/had an IUD in place
  • * Postmenopausal women who have been without a period for ≥ 2 years
  • * Not initiated on both ovarian suppression and endocrine therapy
  • * Patients who score above a 4 for urogenital symptoms or vaginal dryness at baseline as reported by baseline questionnaires (VAS and VuAS)

Ages Eligible for Study

18 Years to

Sexes Eligible for Study

FEMALE

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Collaborators and Investigators

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center,

Shari Goldfarb, MD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Study Record Dates

2027-06