Improving Breast Cancer Diagnostic by Novel sonographicTechniques Study — RadioUS  

Breast Cancer Clinical Trial

Official title: Improving Breast Cancer Diagnostics by Novel Sonographic Techniques

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

With the proposed project we seek to advance the detection and diagnosis of breast cancer in an outpatient breast clinic. Novel sonographic approaches will be scrutinized. The first aim of this study will be to explore whether there is an advantage of ductosonography over conventional breast sonography in detecting and localizing breast lesions by comparing the diagnostic accuracy of ductosonography and conventional breast sonography in detecting suspicious and unclear sonographic lesions.In Addition, reliability and time requirement of ductosonographic examination will be investigated. The second specific aim is to investigate the potential of tissue elasticity as a diagnostic marker in solid breast lesions (US-BI-RADS 3, 4 and 5) by elastosonography. The study design allows investigating the reproducibility of the method.

Clinical Trial Description

The Research Project consists of mainly two parts that involve different methodological approaches: For the first part, different breast ultrasound techniques will be employed for the examination of an unselected population in a regular setting of a breast outpatient clinic. The second part includes measuring and characterizing tissue elasticity of breast lesions by elastosonography. ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Breast Cancer
• Breast Neoplasms

• NCT number: NCT02358837
• Study type: Observational [Patient Registry]
• Source: University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland
• Status: Completed
• Start date: August 2011
• Completion date: January 2015