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Zirconium Zr 89 Bevacizumab Positron Emission Tomography in Imaging Tumor Angiogenesis in Patients with Inflammatory Breast Cancer Receiving Preoperative Chemotherapy

Trial Status: administratively complete

This pilot clinical trial studies how well zirconium Zr 89 bevacizumab positron emission tomography work in imaging tumor angiogenesis (the growth of new blood vessels that tumors need to grow) in patients with inflammatory breast cancer (a type of breast cancer in which the breast looks red and swollen and feels warm) receiving preoperative chemotherapy. Zirconium Zr 89 bevacizumab is a radio tracer. Radiotracers are compounds or drugs that are attached to small amounts of a radioactive substance. Radiotracers are used to make images of processes that are happening in the body, but they do not affect how the body works. Zirconium Zr 89 bevacizumab is made up of the drug bevacizumab and the radioactive substance zirconium-89 (89Zr). 89Zr-bevacizumab is used for an imaging procedure called positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT). Zirconium Zr 89 bevacizumab PET/CT imaging may be able to measure new blood vessel formations to determine where the cancer is in the body and if cancer is being killed by chemotherapy in patients with inflammatory breast cancer receiving preoperative chemotherapy.