USC Breast Center
Breast Cancer Research
Whether you have early stage breast cancer or metastatic breast cancer, research can play an important role in your treatment plan, offering you access to leading-edge treatments. It can also play an important role in other peoples’ lives. By participating in a breast cancer clinical trial, you help pave the way to new prevention, detection and treatment strategies that can offer hope to people with cancer.
As an academic medical center, we are involved in some of the most groundbreaking cancer trials available today. By choosing the USC Breast Center for your breast care, you have access to clinical trials that are helping make breast cancer a disease of the past.
Our offerings
- Breast cancer breakthroughs
- Breast cancer clinical trials
- Finding a cure
- Improving detection, treatment, prevention
- National Cancer Institute (NCI) designation
- Understanding breast cancer causes
What our National Cancer Institute designation means
In 1973, USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center was designated as one of the country’s original eight comprehensive cancer centers by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the federal government’s principle agency for cancer research and training. As an NCI-designated cancer center, we anchor the country’s cancer research efforts, making scientific discoveries that are translated into new treatments for people with cancer. The collective work of NCI researchers has led to important medical advances that have increased the number of cancer survivors in the United States and worldwide.
USC Norris cancer research breakthroughs
Our clinician-scientists have been at the forefront of cancer research for more than 40 years, making historic breakthroughs that have changed the way we understand breast cancer and how it’s treated.
Participate in Breast Cancer Research
Below are open clinical trials at the USC Breast Center. You can learn more about whether a trial is a good match for you by clicking on it for more details.
A Randomized Phase III Double Blinded Placebo Controlled Trial of Aspirin as Adjuvant Therapy for HER2 Negative Breast Cancer: The ABC Trial
This is a randomized double-blind placebo-controlled phase III trial of aspirin (300 mg daily) in early stage node-positive HER2 negative breast cancer patients. Patients will be randomized ...
Learn More ≫A Randomized Phase III Trial Comparing Axillary Lymph Node Dissection to Axillary Radiation in Breast Cancer Patients (cT1-3 N1) Who Have Positive Sentinel Lymph Node Disease After Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy
PRIMARY OBJECTIVE: I. To evaluate whether radiation to the undissected axilla and regional lymph nodes is not inferior to axillary lymph node dissection with radiation to the regional lymph nodes ...
Learn More ≫A Randomized, Phase III Trial to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of MK-3475 (Pembrolizumab) as Adjuvant Therapy for Triple Receptor-Negative Breast Cancer With >/= 1 CM Residual Invasive Cancer or Positive Lymph Nodes (ypN1mi, ypN1-3) After Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy
PRIMARY OBJECTIVE: I. To compare invasive disease-free survival (IDFS) of patients with triple-negative (TNBC) or low estrogen receptor (ER)-positive and/or HER2 borderline breast cancer who have >= ...
Learn More ≫Combined Breast MRI/Biomarker Strategies to Identify Aggressive Biology
PRIMARY OBJECTIVES: I. To determine the number of high risk women with abnormal screening breast MRI and morphologically normal biopsy over 7 years. SECONDARY OBJECTIVES: I. To determine if WNT10B/ ...
Learn More ≫Core Biopsies of Breast Tumor Tissue Repository
PRIMARY OBJECTIVES: I. To develop a baseline and serial breast cancer core biopsy repository within the University of Southern California (USC)/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center Women's Cancer Program. II. ...
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