The purpose of this study is to test the ability of a breast MRI biopsy to accurately diagnose a complete tumor response to the neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) that the patient just finished. Numerous studies have shown that MRI has the highest accuracy for diagnosing a complete tumor response. The investigator wants to see if in a certain group of women who's breast cancer is no longer visible on the post-treatment MRI that the biopsy specimens from a MRI guided biopsy will accurately diagnose a complete tumor response to treatment which may in the future make breast surgery unnecessary in some women.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
31
Patient will undergo percutaneous MR guided biopsy by study Breast Radiologist within 0-60 days of completing NAC.
Memorial Sloan Kettering Basking Ridge (All Protocol Activities)
Basking Ridge, New Jersey, United States
Memorial Sloan Kettering Monmouth (All Protocol Activities)
Middletown, New Jersey, United States
Memorial Sloan Kettering Bergen (All Protocol Activities)
Montvale, New Jersey, United States
Memorial Sloan Kettering Suffolk-Commack (All Protocol Activities)
Commack, New York, United States
Memorial Sloan Kettering Westchester (All Protocol Activities)
Harrison, New York, United States
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (All Protocol Activities)
New York, New York, United States
Memorial Sloan Kettering Nassau (All Protocol Activities)
Rockville Centre, New York, United States
estimate the negative predictive value (NPV) of a percutaneous MRI biopsy
In this context NPV is defined as the number of true negatives (biopsy negative, i.e., no disease found on the percutaneous biopsy and pCR) divided by the number of all biopsy negatives. While NPV is of primary interest we will also estimate positive predictive value, sensitivity, and specificity of the biopsy.
Time frame: 2 years
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