Multifunctional Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Predicting Breast Lesions in Women Undergoing Mastectomy for Breast Cancer

• Status: Unknown status
• Trial end date: 1969-12-31
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Female

Summary

RATIONALE: Diagnostic procedures, such as multifunctional magnetic resonance imaging, may help doctors learn the extent of disease and plan the best treatment.

PURPOSE: This clinical trial is studying how well multifunctional magnetic resonance imaging works in predicting breast lesions in women undergoing mastectomy for breast cancer.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
• Treatments: Chelating Agents

Criteria

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

• Biopsy-confirmed invasive ductal carcinoma of the breast

• Unifocal disease as defined by clinical examination, mammography, and ultrasound

• Patient must be proceeding to mastectomy

• Hormone receptor status unknown

• No T4d or multifocal disease (as defined on conventional imaging)

• Index tumor ≤ 4 cm in diameter

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

• Menopausal status not specified

• Female

• No claustrophobia

• No cup size of DD or greater

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

• No prior surgery to ipsilateral breast

• No prior neoadjuvant chemotherapy

• No prior ferromagnetic implants