The Effect of Digital Breast Tomosynthesis in Breast Cancer Long-term Survival: a Single Institution Study

Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Breast Cancer

Treatments: Device: DM; Device: DBT

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05600257

KSVGH22-CT11-01

Details and patient eligibility

About

To investigate whether digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) benefits survival improvement.

Full description

To suggest DBT for specific populations, compare the overall survival rate of women with digital mammography (DM) to the DBT screening for women with particular characteristics.

Enrollment: 1,517 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 23 to 89 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• individuals were diagnosed with breast cancer according to the International Disease Classification Criteria

Exclusion criteria

• no surgery or incomplete surgical pathology stage
• complete remission after neoadjuvant chemotherapy
• non-breast cancer death
• bilateral breast cancer
• male breast cancer
• no pre-surgery mammography image

Trial design

1,517 participants in 2 patient groups

Screening cohort

Description:

Women received mammography screening

Treatment:

Device: DBT

Device: DM

Diagnostic cohort

Description:

Women received clinical breast examination

Treatment:

Device: DBT

Device: DM