Digital Breast Tomosynthesis in Younger Symptomatic Women

NHS Tayside

Status: Completed

Conditions: Breast Cancer

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01241981

2010ON15

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study will examine a new imaging technique called digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) compared to standard mammography in women under 60 presenting with signs of breast cancer. The reason that we need to do this study is that standard mammography fails to detect the cancer in approximately 20% of these women because younger women have denser breast tissue. We hope that DBT will be more sensitive in detecting breast cancer than standard mammography.

Enrollment: 446 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: Under 59 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Female
• Under 60 years old
• Clinical or ultrasound suspicion of breast cancer

Exclusion criteria

• Unable to give informed consent
• Male
• Obvious advanced breast cancer
• Obvious medical problems meaning surgery would not be an option

Trial design

446 participants in 1 patient group

Digital Breast Tomosynthesis

Description:

Digital Breast Tomosynthesis