Status:

COMPLETED

Quantitative Subharmonic Breast Imaging

Lead Sponsor:

Thomas Jefferson University

Collaborating Sponsors:

National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Lantheus Medical Imaging

Conditions:

Breast Cancer

Eligibility:

FEMALE

18+ years

Phase:

PHASE4

Brief Summary

This is a non-randomized trial of 450 women with a breast abnormality, who are scheduled for a breast biopsy of this abnormality. The study will be conducted at two clinical sites. The primary objecti...

Detailed Description

This is an open-label, non-randomized trial that will be conducted at two clinical sites (the Breast Imaging Centers at Thomas Jefferson University (TJU) Hospital and University of California, San Die...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Be a female diagnosed by x-ray mammography (performed within 90 days prior to the study procedure) as having a solid breast mass or abnormal area without a mass.
  • Be scheduled for a biopsy (core / excisional / lumpectomy) of the mass or region of abnormality or for mastectomy within 30 days after this study procedure.
  • Be at least 18 years of age.
  • Be medically stable.
  • If a female of child-bearing potential, must have a negative pregnancy test.
  • Have signed Informed Consent to participate in the study.

Exclusion

  • Males
  • Females who are pregnant or nursing.
  • Patients whose breast lesion is unequivocally a cyst by unenhanced US.
  • Patients currently on chemotherapy or with other primary cancers requiring systemic treatment.
  • Patients who are medically unstable, patients who are seriously or terminally ill, and patients whose clinical course is unpredictable. For example:
  • Patients on life support or in a critical care unit.
  • Patients with unstable occlusive disease (eg, crescendo angina)
  • Patients with clinically unstable cardiac arrhythmias, such as recurrent ventricular tachycardia.
  • Patients with uncontrolled congestive heart failure (NYHA Class IV)
  • Patients with recent cerebral hemorrhage.
  • Patients with clinically significant and unstable renal and/or liver disease (eg, transplant recipients in rejection)
  • Patients who have undergone surgery within 24 hours prior to the study sonographic examination.
  • Patients with known hypersensitivity to perflutren
  • Patients who have received any contrast medium (X-ray, MRI, CT, of US) in the 24 hours prior to the research US exam
  • Patients with cardiac shunts.
  • Patients with congenital heart defects.
  • Patients with severe emphysema, pulmonary vasculitis, or a history of pulmonary emboli.
  • Patients with confirmed or suspected liver lesions.
  • Patients with respiratory distress syndrome.
  • Patients who have had excisional biopsy/lumpectomy of the current area of interest within the past 6 weeks.

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

November 1 2011

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

April 5 2019

Estimated Enrollment :

219 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT01490892

Start Date

November 1 2011

End Date

April 5 2019

Last Update

May 6 2025

Active Locations (2)

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University of California, San Diego

La Jolla, California, United States, 92093

2

Thomas Jefferson University, Dept of Radiology

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19107