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Accurate, Rapid and Inexpensive MRI Protocol for Breast Cancer Screening

NCT04877912 · Status: TERMINATED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 166

Last updated 2026-03-20

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Summary

The purpose of this study is to test an innovative MRI breast cancer screening method in women with mammographically dense breasts as well as other women with moderately increased cancer risk. MRI, combined with other methods of risk assessment, has potential to significantly improve sensitivity to cancer in dense breasts and detect cancer in all cases at a much earlier stage, with far fewer interval cancers than mammography. Previous tests of MRI sensitivity show that this screening could significantly increase the likelihood of detecting invasive cancers resulting in decreased mortality from breast cancer.

Suspicious lesions will be defined by the clinical interpretation of the breast MRI images performed by the attending breast radiologists. Based on the radiologist determination that the MRI findings are suspicious (these findings include masses, non-mass enhancement and foci), suspicious lesions will be assigned a Bi-Rads code specifying whether additional work up or biopsy is necessary. These are Bi-Rads codes 0, 4 and 5. False positive diagnosis should be minimized as all attending physicians reading breast MRI at this institution are fellowship trained in breast imaging.

Conditions

Interventions

DIAGNOSTIC_TEST

MRI Abbreviated Scan

All subjects will be receiving an MRI scan, up to 15 minutes long that includes an injection of contrast agent. This contrast agent will be injected into the arm and will help the doctors to read the MRI more effectively. If there is a lesion (abnormality) in the breast, the contrast agent will go to the lesion first and we will be able to see it better. The examination table will then move subject into the magnet, which is a long tube with a diameter of about 3 feet. Subject will be asked to lie in the magnet for about 15 minutes. During the periods when we are taking pictures, we will ask subject to be as still as possible.

DIAGNOSTIC_TEST

Abbreviated MRI Scan

All subjects will be receiving an MRI scan, up to 15 minutes long that includes an injection of contrast agent. This contrast agent will be injected into the arm and will help the doctors to read the MRI more effectively. If there is a lesion (abnormality) in the breast, the contrast agent will go to the lesion first and we will be able to see it better. The examination table will then move subject into the magnet, which is a long tube with a diameter of about 3 feet. Subject will be asked to lie in the magnet for about 15 minutes. During the periods when we are taking pictures, we will ask subject to be as still as possible.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Cancer Institute (NCI)

    collaborator NIH

  • University of Chicago

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Gregory Karczmar, PhD · University of Chicago

Eligibility

Min Age
40 Years
Max Age
74 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-06-01
Primary Completion
2022-05-31
Completion
2022-05-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Read the full study record

This page highlights key information. For complete eligibility criteria, study locations, investigator contacts, and the full protocol, visit the original record on ClinicalTrials.gov.

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