Breast MRI Spectroscopy

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Suspicion of, or Known Breast Cancer

In brief

The purpose of this study is to provide physicians with additional information not available with standard imaging methods for breast disease. As part of the MRI examination ordered by your physician, a new method of analyzing the images or pictures will be used. This new method is called spectroscopy and is used routinely on other parts of the body such as the prostate and brain. Pictures produced with this sequence may look slightly different than the regular MRI pictures. Using spectroscopy data, it may be possible to distinguish benign conditions of the breast from malignant tumors and provide more precise information than can be obtained with regular MRI.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00577915

Run by

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

People needed

150

Starts

2003-05-01

Expected to finish

2016-06-01

Last updated by the study team

2016-11-29

Who can join

Age: any. Sex: female. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Scheduled for diagnostic breast MRI examination or interventional procedure for a known or suspected breast lesion

You may not qualify if…

• Patients who would be normally excluded from undergoing an MRI examination:
• Patients with a pacemaker, aneurysm clip or any other condition that would warrant avoidance of a strong magnetic field

Where it is running

• Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center — New York, New York, United States

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