NCT06812208Not yet recruiting
Strategies to Decentralize Breast Ultrasound in Rwanda
Implementation Strategies to Decentralize Breast Ultrasound Services and Facilitate Timely Breast Cancer Diagnoses in Rwanda
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 2 Jun 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
Diagnosing breast cancer early is critical to reduce preventable breast cancer deaths in sub-Saharan Africa. This can be done in part through increasing patients' access to breast ultrasound, which is essential for evaluating breast masses. However, ultrasound is typically provided only by radiologists at urban referral hospitals. Training clinicians at rural district hospitals who are not radiologists could increase patients' access to breast ultrasound, but strategies to support and supervise these clinicians and ensure they are providing high-quality ultrasound services has not been studied. This project will examine the effectiveness and cost of two strategies for training non-radiologist clinicians to perform breast ultrasound in Rwandan district hospitals.
- Status (registry)
- Not yet recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 1792 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 25 Jan 2025
- Start date
- Jan 2027
- Primary completion date
- 1 Jul 2028
- Lead sponsor
- Brigham and Women's Hospital
- Diseases
- Childhood cancers
- NCT number
- NCT06812208
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 1792
- From Jan 2027 to the primary completion date, 1 Jul 2028
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Other
- 1\. Already providing routine breast ultrasound in the district hospital.
Who the study is looking for
- District hospital in Rwanda;
- Already implementing the Women's Cancer Early Detection Program in their districts (i.e. clinicians in health centers and hospitals in the district have received the nationally-sponsored trainings in breast cancer early detection and cervical cancer screening);
- Already using the WCEDP electronic medical record in health centers and the district hospital, or prepared to start using it.
Criteria the registry did not label
- Enrollment in this cluster randomized clinical trial will occur at the health facility level.
Sex: All · Accepts healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Partners in Health (Inshuti Mu Buzima) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Butaro | Rwanda | Unknown status |
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