Autopsy report · NCT03448250

Evaluating a Novel Web-based Intervention for Breast Cancer Survivors

“Participant recruitment was stopped due to corona pandemic.”

The sponsor’s own words in the registry.

Life of this trial

• Registered 1 month before it started.
• Ran for about 4 years 1 month before it stopped.
• 64 participants enrolled.
• No results are posted on the registry.

Vital statistics

Status

Terminated

Phase

Na

Sponsor

Technical University of Dortmund

Sponsor type

University, hospital or other

Conditions

Breast Cancer

Interventions

Optimune; Care-As-Usual

Participants

64

Sites

2

Countries

Germany

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Look deeper

• The official registry record (the source of truth)
• Record history: every change the sponsor made
• Open it in the database

Everything here comes from the current ClinicalTrials.gov record. The timeline uses the record’s dates; dates marked planned are the sponsor’s plans. The cause of death is an automatic, unverified label. This is research information, not medical advice.