The Effects of Radiation in Reconstructed Breasts

Completed

Conditions studied: Breast Cancer

In brief

The primary objective of this study is to use LR imaging to evaluate the effects of adjuvant radiation therapy on reconstructed breasts.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01292772

Run by

Abramson Cancer Center at Penn Medicine

People needed

12

Starts

2010-12-01

Expected to finish

2019-05-05

Last updated by the study team

2020-04-08

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 90. Sex: female. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Female patients between 18 and 90 years of age.
• Patients with a diagnosis of unilateral breast cancer who elect to undergo bilateral mastectomy with immediate free flap reconstruction.
• Patients must also have a locally advanced tumor that requires adjuvant radiation therapy following reconstruction.

You may not qualify if…

• Women who do not undergo immediate, bilateral breast reconstruction using a free flap.
• Women who do not require unilateral, adjuvant radiation therapy
• Women who are pregnant
• Women who have altered renal function, defined as a personal history of diabetic, hypertensive or autoimmune nephropathy and/or on routine preoperative testing are found to have a serum creatinine greater than or equal to 1.3

Where it is running

• Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

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