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Contrast Enhanced Ultrasonography-guided Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy after Introducing Twirl Breast Marker for Axillary Lymph Node-positive Breast Cancer

Not Applicable
Recruiting
Conditions
Breast cancer
D001943
Registration Number
JPRN-jRCTs051210034
Lead Sponsor
Miyake Tomohiro
Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
Recruiting
Sex
Female
Target Recruitment
20
Inclusion Criteria

(1) Patients with the ability to consent who are 20 years old or older and younger than 90 years old at the time of obtaining informed consent
(2) Clinically T1-2N1M0 breast cancer patients with 1 to 2 positive axillary lymph nodes of whicn at least one axillary lymph node has been confirmed to harbor metastasis by fine needle aspiration cytology
(3) Patients whose condition are expected to be stable for longer than 6 months at the time of obtaining the informed consent
(4) Patients for whom a written consent has been obtained for participation in this study

Exclusion Criteria

(1) Patients with palpable hard nodes
(2) Patients with radiologically proven matted nodes or gross extranodal disease
(3) Patients who have been treated with preoperative chemotherapy or hormonal therapy for breast cancer
(4) Patients who are during or possibilities of pregnancy
(5) Patients who are allergic to metal or egg
(6) Patients with coronary artery disease
(7) Patients who seem not eligible for the present study

Study & Design

Study Type
Interventional
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Ratio of patients who have spared axillary lymph node dissection
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Proportion of Twirl-LNs to sentinel lymph nodes<br>Tumor burden in Twirl-LN<br>Number of metastatic lymph nodes among non-sentinel lymph nodes<br>Ratio of Twirl-LN which could be sampled by means of intraoperative ultrasonography and conventional sentinel lymph node biopsy method, i.e., dye or radio-isotope method
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