Seeking Women with Breast Cancer for a Clinical Trial
If you have been diagnosed with breast cancer and decided to have breast-conserving surgery, you may be eligible to participate in a clinical trial evaluating an investigational imaging device for intraoperative margin visualization. Women who have previously had surgery for the treatment of breast cancer may not be eligible. Please read the eligibility criteria, here, carefully.
The goal of breast-conserving surgery (also called lumpectomy) is to completely remove all the cancer, while preserving as much breast tissue as possible. For a lumpectomy to be successful, there must be a rim of healthy tissue around the removed cancerous tumor, referred to as a clean or negative margin. After surgery, the cancerous tissue is sent to pathology for microscopic evaluation to confirm whether any cancer cells remain, which takes several days. If the pathology report finds positive margins – meaning cancer cells were detected – the surgeon typically must bring the patient back for a second surgery to remove more tissue.
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