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NCT05946668

Evaluation of Vaginal Microbiome as a Biomarker for the Improvement of Vaginal Health in Women With Breast Cancer, ARISE Study

Completed Last updated 18 June 2025
What this trial tests

trial testing Biospecimen Collection in Breast Neoplasms in 35 participants. Completed in 1 March 2025.

Timeline
6 June 2023
Primary endpoint
1 March 2025
1 March 2025

Quick facts

Lead sponsorOhio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center
StatusCompleted
Study typeOBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment35
Start date6 June 2023
Primary completion1 March 2025
Estimated completion1 March 2025
Sites1 location across United States

Drugs / interventions tested

Conditions studied

Sponsor

Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center

Who can join

18 and older, female only, with Breast Neoplasms. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

This study evaluates vaginal microbiome as a biomarker to improve vaginal and sexual health in women with breast cancer receiving endocrine therapy. Breast cancer is the most common cancer in United States women, aside from skin cancers. Endocrine therapy is standard treatment for 70% of invasive breast cancers, significantly affecting sexual health and often causing women to change their course of treatment or cease sexual activity. Changes in the vaginal microbiome, which is the collection of all microorganisms, such as bacteria, fungi, and viruses, that naturally live on and inside the body, are implicated in menopausal-related sexual health symptoms, but the vaginal microbiome (and associated immune responses) has not been explored as a biomarker for sexual health changes in hormone-related sexual health symptoms in breast cancer. A biomarker is a biological molecule found in blood, other body fluids, or tissues that is a sign of a normal or abnormal process, or of a condition or disease. Ribonucleic acid (RNA)-sequencing is a cost-effective method to analyze both human and microbial transcripts. The RNA that is sequenced from a standard biological sample such as a swab is a snapshot of the expression of many different cells and can be used to simultaneously measure the quantities of microbes, the overall expression of the human host, and the quantities of immune cells. Information gathered from this study may help researchers establish the vaginal microbiome as a biomarker and therapeutic target to improve the vaginal and sexual health of women with breast cancer receiving endocrine therapy.

Publications & conference data

No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial. Completed trials usually publish results within 12-18 months.

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