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Ultrasound Imaging and Spectroscopy as Early Indicators of Locally-Advanced Breast Cancer Response

ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT04134780

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Official title

Pilot Investigation of Ultrasound Imaging and Spectroscopy as Early Indicators of Locally- Advanced Breast Cancer Response to Neoadjuvant Treatment

Brief summary

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This work explores the possibility of using ultrasound imaging and spectroscopy as a way of monitoring cell death, hence, tumour response to treatment. The hypothesis here is that it can be used as a way of monitoring early response to cancer treatment and predicting which patients continue on in their therapy to have a complete pathological response as a primary endpoint and tumour size decrease as a secondary endpoint. If this work is successful it could be used in the future early on in a cancer patient's treatment to predict whether or not a course of chemotherapy or radiotherapy is going to be successful. For example, in patients in which the analysis indicates a poor response the chemotherapy regimen could be changed to a more efficacious one or for those receiving radiotherapy predicted to have a poor response a radiosensitizing agent could be used to improve outcome.

Study identification

NCT ID
NCT04134780
Recruitment status
Recruiting
Study type
Observational
Phase
Not listed
Enrollment
150 participants

Conditions and interventions

Conditions

Interventions

Not listed

Eligibility (public fields only)

Age range
18 Years and older
Sex
All
Healthy volunteers
Healthy volunteers not accepted

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Study timeline

Start date
Jul 31, 2014
Primary completion
Sep 30, 2025
Completion
Sep 30, 2029
Last update posted
Dec 13, 2023

2014 – 2029

United States locations

U.S. sites
1
U.S. states
1
U.S. cities
1
Facility City State ZIP Site status
MD Anderson Houston Texas 77030 Completed

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Non-U.S. locations

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