🏛️ Verified NIH Record • Updated 2026-07-14
The C-MERIT Screening Cohort: Contrast-enhanced Mammography for Breast Cancer Screening and Risk Assessment in Women With Dense Breasts (NCT05667532)
🟢 Recruiting Observational / Diagnostic 📋 Clinical Research Protocol Sponsor: M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
🩺 Plain-English Summary (8th-Grade Level)
To learn whether a new imaging technology, Contrast-Enhanced Mammography (CEM), compared to standard mammography, can better detect breast cancers in women with dense breasts
Who can join: To join this study, participants generally need to meet the listed inclusion criteria (3 items) and avoid the listed exclusions (11 items).
Location: M D Anderson Cancer Center — Houston, Texas
📋 "Do I Qualify?" — 1-Minute Self Screener
Instant ChecklistCheck every box below. If you can check all of them, you may meet the study's basic screening requirements (final eligibility is confirmed by the site team).
Usually NOT eligible if any of the following apply:
- Exclusion Criteria:
- Self-reported new breast symptoms since last mammogram including nipple discharge, palpable mass, skin dimpling, or focal pain.
- Current or recent (within the prior 6 months) history of pregnancy or breast feeding
- Personal history of breast cancer (DCIS or invasive breast cancer)
- Treatment of any other type of cancer within the past 5 years excluding in-situ cervical and non-melanoma skin cancer
- Breast biopsy within 6 months
- Breast surgery within 12 months
- Breast MRI, MBI, or CEM performed within 24 months
- Known allergy to iodine-containing contrast agents
- History of anaphylactic reaction to any substance that required hospitalization or IV placement in a patient with no known prior uneventful exposure to iodine-based IV contrast
- Renal insufficiency (as defined by UTMDACC policy 3.30- attachment 1 (appendix D)
🔍 Extracted verbatim from the official NIH eligibility criteria. Always confirm with the study coordinator.
📍 All Participating Trial Locations (1 Sites)
- M D Anderson Cancer Center — Houston, Texas
💰 Cost, Insurance & Patient Rights
- 100% Free Items: The investigational treatment and protocol-required procedures are supplied at zero cost by the sponsor.
- Routine Patient Care: Under federal law (ACA § 2709) and many state statutes, routine care costs are covered during participation.
- Voluntary Participation: You may withdraw at any time without affecting your standard medical care.