Diffusion Weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Breast During Chemotherapy: Response Evaluation

Universitaire Ziekenhuizen KU Leuven

Status: Completed

Conditions: Breast Cancer

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01684735

B322201213618

Details and patient eligibility

About

Evaluation of the response to chemotherapy in breast cancer patients by the use of Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging of the breast before the start of chemotherapy, after one and 3 cycles of therapy and at the end of the therapy.

Enrollment: 45 patients

Sex: Female

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• core biopsy with diagnosis of breast cancer
• start of neo-adjuvant chemotherapy

Exclusion criteria

• magnetic resonance imaging incompatibility

Trial design

45 participants in 1 patient group

women with BRCA and chemotherapy

Description:

women recently diagnosed with breast cancer and start with neo-adjuvant chemotherapy (6 cycles) before surgery/therapy