Novel Magnetic Resonance Imaging-Guided Ultrasound-Stimulated Microbubble Radiation Treatment for Patients With Chest-Wall and Breast Cancer

Prior treatment

• Patients having received anthracycline or taxane based chemotherapy within the past 5 days.
• Patients intended for surgical management of the target tumour.
• Patients with metallic or breast implants.

Other illness

• Subjects with connective tissue disorder, musculoskeletal deformity.
• Target lesion causing deep ulceration, bleeding or discharge of the overlying skin.
• Severe cardiovascular, neurological, renal or hematological chronic disease.
• Any condition that in the investigator's opinion precludes participation.
• Allergy to Definity microbubbles.
• Cardiac disease or unstable hemodynamics including myocardial infarction within six months, unstable angina, congestive heart failure, cardiac shunts, cardiac arrhythmia and cardiac pacemaker.
• History of bleeding disorder, coagulopathy.

Lab values

• Contraindication to perflutren including subjects with a family or personal history of QT prolongation or taking concomitant medications known to cause QTc prolongation like cisapride, erythromycin, tricyclic antidepressants, Class IA and III antiarrhythmic agents and some antipsychotics like haloperidol, droperidol, quetiapine, thioridazine, ziprasidone.
• Known QT prolongation = (QTc \> 450ms for men or \>470ms for women) with cardiac impairment if ECG is requested as per SOC.

Other

• Pregnant or lactating women may not participate due to the embryotoxic effects of protocol treatment.
• Unable to have a contrast-enhanced MRI scan - standard of care criteria.
• A fibrotic scar along the proposed FUS beam path.
• Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) Performance Status ≥ 3.
• Unable to tolerate required stationary position during treatment.
• Severely impaired renal function with estimated glomerular filtration rate \< 30ml/min/1.73m2 and/or on dialysis.

• Age ≥ 18 years.
• All biopsy-confirmed invasive ductal, invasive lobular and other rare histologic types of carcinoma.
• Patients with early stage Breast cancer, or LABC ; i.e., Stage IIA - IIIC cancers (T2 N0 M0 to Any T, N3, M0) or Stage IV (Any T, Any N, M1) per AJCC guidelines (8th Edition).
• Assessed as indicated, by a multidisciplinary team of treating medical, surgical and radiation oncologist and found suitable for radiation treatment.
• Patient referred for standard palliative radiotherapy or curative radiotherapy, which may include (but are not limited to) any of the following dose regimens: 1) 5-8 Gy in one fraction, 2) 20 Gy in 5 fractions, 3) 30 Gy in 5 fractions, 4) 35 Gy in 5 fractions, 5) 30 Gy in 10 fractions, 6) 40 Gy in 10 fractions, 5) 50 Gy in 20 fractions, 6) 60 Gy in 30 fractions and 7) 66 Gy in 33 fractions, or radiobiologically similar doses.
• Able to understand and give informed consent.
• Weight \< 140 kg.
• Target lesion accessible for MRg-FUS+MB procedure.
• Able to communicate sensation during the procedure.
• Creatinine within normal institutional limits or creatinine clearance \>60 mL/min/1.73 m2 for patients with creatinine levels above institutional upper limit of normal.