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Quantitative Dynamic Contrast Enhanced Breast MRI

Completed
Conditions
Breast Cancer
Interventions
Other: perform dynamic contrast enhanced (DCE) MRI
Registration Number
NCT00582764
Lead Sponsor
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to see if dynamic contrast enhanced (DCE) MRI imaging makes it possible to distinguish benign conditions of the breast from malignant tumors and provide better information than can be obtained with regular MRI. DCE MRI uses a new way of collecting and analyzing the images or pictures which provides doctors extra information not available with standard imaging methods. This includes information about the blood vessels of different breast diseases. Pictures produced this way look just like the regular MRI pictures. The DCE MRI adds another imaging sequence (another scan) to the MRI examination ordered by your physician to evaluate your breast lesion, thus increasing the exam time (extra 10 min). The information gained from doing the new test, the DCE MRI, will not be used in your treatment and will not affect the type of care you receive for your breast lesions.

Detailed Description

Our aim is to perform dynamic contrast enhanced (DCE) MRI on 150 patients during their routine breast MRI examination at MSKCC. This will add extra 10 min scanning time to the routine examination. High resolution (submillimeter) parametric maps of pathophysiologic quantities, such as tumor vessel permeability, tumor perfusion, extracellular extravascular volume fraction, will be generated from the DCE MRI data. These results will be correlated with pathology to determine new pharmacokinetic threshold so that the negative predictive value for benign lesions is close to 100%. The improvement in diagnostic specificity may help to reduce unnecessary biopsies in the future.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
Female
Target Recruitment
116
Inclusion Criteria

· scheduled for breast MRI interventional procedure for a known breast lesion.

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Exclusion Criteria
  • patients who would be normally excluded from undergoing an MRI examination patients with a pacemaker, aneurysm clip or any other condition that would warrant avoidance of a strong magnetic field.
  • patients who are unable to cooperate for an MRI, and/or have known reaction to gadolinium contrast agent.
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Study & Design

Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Study Design
Not specified
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
1perform dynamic contrast enhanced (DCE) MRIAny patient undergoing MRI guided preoperative needle localization or MRI guided biopsy of the breast.
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
To assess whether the new quantitative MRI method can discriminate between malignant and nonmalignant breast lesions among the lesions seen in conventional MRI.December 2008
Secondary Outcome Measures
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Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

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New York, New York, United States

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