Diffusion MRI; Predictive Value for Cervical Uterine Cancer Recurrence (s52647)

Universitaire Ziekenhuizen KU Leuven

Status

Unknown

Conditions

Uterine Cervical Cancer

Diffusion-weighted MRI

Recurrence

Treatments

Procedure: Diffusion weighted MRI (DW- MRI)

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT01226264

s52647

Details and patient eligibility

About

Uterine cervical cancer is the second most common female malignancy. Therapy monitoring is essential to detect early recurrence. Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging is an emerging MRI imaging technique which has a potential value for the detection of primary and recurrent disease and for the assessment of response to therapy. The purpose of this project is to evaluate the predictive value of DWI during and after therapy in the prediction of recurrence of cervical uterine cancer. It will be considered whether DWI is able to provide early information about the response to therapy. This could enable the identification of less- or non-responsive tumors and in this way therapy can be adapted as soon as possible. Hence the investigators could offer the patient a more efficient treatment scheme and a reduction in toxicity related to the treatment could be established.

Enrollment

40 estimated patients

Sex

Female

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Patients diagnosed with cervical uterine cancer are, on a voluntary basis, enrolled in the study. These are patients who either underwent curative chemoradiation (mainly patients with advanced stage cancer) or neoadjuvant chemotherapy (predominantly in patients with early stage cancer) before undergoing surgery.

Exclusion criteria

Patients with known contra-indications for MRI (cardiac pacemakers, cochlear implants, claustrophobic patients) will be excluded from this study. And so are patients with contra-indications to Gadolinium-based contrast agents and patients with a known restricted renal function (GFR < 30 ml/min).