Status:

TERMINATED

3-D Super Resolution Ultrasound Microvascular Imaging

Lead Sponsor:

UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center

Collaborating Sponsors:

National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Conditions:

Breast Cancer

Thyroid Cancer

Eligibility:

All Genders

18+ years

Phase:

PHASE2

Brief Summary

This is a 3-arm single center study of 45 patients. These cohorts will include 15 breast patients scheduled to undergo a biopsy, and 15 thyroid patients scheduled to undergo fine needle aspiration, bi...

Detailed Description

Increasing the sensitivity and specificity of diagnostic imaging in patients at high risk for breast or thyroid cancer could provide substantial clinical benefit by improving diagnosis, preventing ove...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Healthy Volunteers
  • Inclusion Criteria
  • Able to provide informed consent
  • Negative urine pregnancy test in women of child-bearing potential
  • Exclusion Criteria
  • Institutionalized subject (prisoner or nursing home patient)
  • Critically ill or medically unstable and whose critical course during the observation period would be unpredictable (e.g., chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
  • Known hypersensitivity to perflutren lipid (Definity®)
  • Active cardiac disease including any of the following:
  • Severe congestive heart failure
  • Unstable angina.
  • Severe arrhythmia
  • Myocardial infarction within 14 days prior to the date of proposed Definity® administration.
  • Pulmonary hypertension
  • Cardiac shunts
  • Breast Imaging Patients
  • Inclusion Criteria
  • Women
  • Patient had a diagnostic breast ultrasound study performed at UNC
  • Scheduled for a core needle or surgical breast biopsy of at least one breast lesion that is 2 cm or less in size and 3 cm in depth from the skin surface
  • Able to provide informed consent
  • Negative urine pregnancy test in women of child-bearing potential
  • BIRADS score of 4 or 5.
  • Exclusion Criteria
  • Male
  • Institutionalized subject (prisoner or nursing home patient)
  • Critically ill or medically unstable and whose critical course during the observation period would be unpredictable (e.g., chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
  • Sonographically visible breast lesion larger than 2cm or greater than 3cm in depth from the skin surface
  • Known hypersensitivity to perflutren lipid (Definity®)
  • Active cardiac disease including any of the following:
  • Severe congestive heart failure
  • Unstable angina.
  • Severe arrhythmia
  • Myocardial infarction within 14 days prior to the date of proposed Definity® administration.
  • Pulmonary hypertension
  • Cardiac shunts
  • Thyroid Imaging Patients Inclusion Criteria
  • Patient had a diagnostic thyroid ultrasound study performed at UNC
  • TIRADS risk score of 4c or 5
  • Scheduled for a core needle or surgical thyroid biopsy, fine needle aspiration, or thyroidectomy of at least one sonographically visible thyroid lesion that is 3 cm in depth from the skin surface
  • Able to provide informed consent
  • Negative urine pregnancy test in women of child-bearing potential
  • Exclusion Criteria
  • Institutionalized subject (prisoner or nursing home patient)
  • Critically ill or medically unstable and whose critical course during the observation period would be unpredictable (e.g., chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
  • Known hypersensitivity to perflutren lipid (Definity®)
  • Active cardiac disease including any of the following:
  • Severe congestive heart failure
  • Unstable angina.
  • Severe arrhythmia
  • Myocardial infarction within 14 days prior to the date of proposed Definity® administration.
  • Pulmonary hypertension
  • Cardiac shunts

Exclusion

    Key Trial Info

    Start Date :

    May 26 2022

    Trial Type :

    INTERVENTIONAL

    Allocation :

    ACTUAL

    End Date :

    August 1 2024

    Estimated Enrollment :

    27 Patients enrolled

    Trial Details

    Trial ID

    NCT04136912

    Start Date

    May 26 2022

    End Date

    August 1 2024

    Last Update

    October 6 2025

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    Univeristy of North Carolina Chapel Hill

    Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States, 27599

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