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Role of ABUS as an Alternative to Breast MRI in Assessing Response to Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy

NCT04468867 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 100

Last updated 2020-07-13

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Some women who have been diagnosed with a breast cancer will require chemotherapy as part of their treatment. The chemotherapy can be given before breast surgery - neoadjuvant chemotherapy or after breast surgery - adjuvant chemotherapy. Whether chemotherapy is given before or after does not affect the clinical outcomes for the woman - ie there is no disadvantage to the woman. Due to the fact that giving chemotherapy before has no disadvantages, many of the oncologists like to give the chemotherapy before because they can see if the breast cancer is responding. They are able to do this by using imaging. The best imaging test is breast MRI. Ultrasound can be used but studies have shown that it is not as good. However, whole breast ultrasound (ABUS) provides 3 dimensional information similar to breast MRI and the purpose of our study is to see if ABUS performs similar to breast MRI in being able to see if a tumour is responding to the chemotherapy. The breast MRI requires women to lie facing down and takes about 20mins. It involves an injection of contrast called gadolinium via a cannula. ABUS involves scanning the whole breast with the patient lying on their back and takes 10mins. There is no injection of contrast. MRI is an expensive test and often there is limited access to the scanner and so patients may have to wait for an appointment. ABUS because it is an automated process for obtaining the images can be performed in the breast unit in a timely manner without the issue of competing demands. All women who agree to take part in the study will have both the breast MRI - standard or care and the ABUS.

Conditions

Interventions

DIAGNOSTIC_TEST

Automated whole breast ultrasound

This will be performed by a band 6 radiographer and will be done at baseline, post 2 cycles of chemotherapy and end of treatment chemotherapy

DIAGNOSTIC_TEST

Breast MRI

This will be performed by band 6 or 7 radiographer with MRI training

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
100 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-08-22
Primary Completion
2022-06-30
Completion
2022-06-30

Countries

  • United Kingdom

Study Locations

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