Can a risk score and MRI outsmart dense breasts?
NCT ID NCT07277738
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Sep 17, 2026 · Updated 5 times
Summary
This study looks at whether adding an MRI to the yearly mammogram can help find breast cancer earlier in women with dense breasts. Participants will have a mammogram and a risk score calculated from it. Those with a high risk score will be offered an MRI. The goal is to see if this approach reduces cancers found between screenings or at a later stage.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- Prognosia Breast (a mammogram-based risk algorithm) and MRI
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this could show that using a risk score to select women for supplemental MRI reduces late-stage or interval breast cancers.
- What could go wrong
- This is a small, early feasibility study (78 participants) and not yet recruiting. The risk score may not accurately predict who benefits from MRI, and MRI can lead to false alarms or unnecessary biopsies.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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About 78 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Sep 2026
- Expected to finish
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Sep 2029
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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25 to 55 years
- Sex
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Female participants only
- Healthy volunteers
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Accepted
You do not need to have the condition being studied to take part.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * Normal screening mammogram within 90 days prior to enrollment. Bi-Rads of 1 or 2. * Dense breasts, either: * Class C density ("the breasts are heterogeneously dense, which may obscure small masses") * Class D density ("the breasts are extremely dense, which lowers the sensitivity of mammography") * Assigned female at birth. * Between 40 to 74 years of age (inclusive). * Ability to understand and willingness to sign an IRB approved written informed consent document. Exclusion Criteria: * Screening mammogram with BI-Rads of 0. * Contraindication to MRI with contrast (e.g. claustrophobia, metal objects in the body, known sensitivity/allergy to gadolinium). * Prior or concurrent malignancy whose natural history has the potential to interfere with the study intervention (breast cancer or non-classic LCIS). Patients with prior or concurrent malignancy that does NOT meet that definition are eligible for this trial. * Prior MRI screening of the breast. * Known to be BRCA 1/2 positive or presence of any other known high penetrance genetic marker. * Is receiving any endocrine therapy. * Has breast implants. * Is breastfeeding.
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Conditions
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Washington University School of Medicine
RECRUITINGSt Louis, Missouri, 63110, United States
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