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Research type:

Primary Research (e.g. trial) 

Title (lead author) etc:

Multi-centre randomised controlled trial examining the cost-effectiveness of contrast-enhanced high field magnetic resonance imaging in women scheduled for wide local excision (COMICE)  (Turnbull) 182 pages, Volume 14, number 1

DOI

10.3310/hta14010
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Headline:

Trial found that the addition of magnetic resonance imaging to conventional triple assessment in women with primary breast cancer did not reduce reoperation rates 

This report should be referenced as follows:

Turnbull L W, Brown S R, Olivier C, Harvey I, Brown J, Drew P, et al. Multi-centre randomised controlled trial examining the cost-effectiveness of contrast-enhanced high field magnetic resonance imaging in women scheduled for wide local excision (COMICE). Health Technol Assess 2010;14(1).

Project ref:

99/27/05 

Original project title:

Multi-centre randomised controlled trial examining the cost-effectiveness of contrast-enhanced high field magnetic resonance imaging in women scheduled for wide local excision (COMICE) 

Chief Investigator:

Professor Lindsay Turnbull, Professor of Radiology, Centre for MR Investigations, Hull Royal Infirmary

Start Date:

June 2001  

Date of publication in HTA journal series

January 2010

Cost:

£1,582,441 

MeSH* index primary terms:

BREAST-NEOPLASMS Q-diagnosis; BREAST-NEOPLASMS Q-economics; MAGNETIC-RESONANCE-IMAGING Q-economics (* = Medical Subject Headings)

MeSH* index secondary terms:

HUMAN; MULTICENTER-STUDY; RANDOMIZED-CONTROLLED-TRIAL; CLINICAL-TRIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP-STUDIES; COST-BENEFIT-ANALYSIS; CONTRAST-MEDIA; PROGNOSIS; BREAST-NEOPLASMS Q-surgery; BREAST-NEOPLASMS Q-prevention-&-control; BREAST-NEOPLASMS Q-radiotherapy  (* = Medical Subject Headings)

ISRCTN* number:

ISRCTN 57474502 (*International Standard Randomised Controlled Trial Number) 
URL of this project on the Controlled Trials Website:
http://www.controlled-trials.com/ISRCTN57474502 

NRR* number, if applicable:

N0484099124 (*National Research Register) The National Research Register was a public database of ongoing and recently completed research projects funded by, or of interest to, the United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS). It is now an archive of projects from early 2000 to September 2007. Search the NRR archive.

Project Protocol:

Project protocol (pdf format, 395 kbytes)

Printed copies of this title despatched:

106 (Figures relate to the previous calendar month)

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