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Table 5 Ongoing clinical trials aiming at the introduction of miRNAs in clinical practice

From: Decoding the usefulness of non-coding RNAs as breast cancer markers

Clinical trial

Patient population

Intervention

Aims

Study start date

NCT00581750 observational

Patients with lobular carcinoma in situ

Tumor profiling

Diagnosis

October 2001

NCT01231386 observational

Patients undergoing neoadjuvant or adjuvant chemotherapy and HT for locally advanced and inflammatory BC

Tumor profiling, Circulating miRNAs

Prognosis drug sensitivity

October 2014

NCT01722851 observational

Newly diagnosed BC patients who are scheduled to undergo neoadjuvant chemotherapy/HT and patients who present with disease recurrence or disease progression, and who are commenced on systemic therapies (HT and/or chemotherapy)

Circulating miRNAs

Prognosis drug sensitivity

September 2013

NCT02656589 observational

Patients with HER2+ advanced stage BC who were treated with herceptin

Drug sensitivity

June 2015

NCT01598285 observational

Patients suffering from metastatic BC, treated with bevacizumab

May 2012

NCT01612871 observational

Patients with metastatic invasive BC or locally advanced BC for which treatment with tamoxifen or anti-aromatase is indicated

June 2012