Table 7.
Follow-Up Care of Women with Cancer in Cohort of Women with Breast Pain
| Case | Follow-up recommended | Follow-up diagnostic testing | Days from initial visit | Follow-up diagnostic testing results | Cancer site concordant with pain? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Right stereotactic biopsy | Right breast stereotactic biopsy | 12 | DCIS†, right breast | No |
| 2 | Referral to breast surgeon | Ultrasound guided core biopsy, left breast | 18 | IDC‡, left breast, stage 1 | Yes |
| 3 | Diagnostic | Unilateral Diagnostic Mammogram, right breast | 14 | BIRADS 4 | |
| Mammography | |||||
| 4 | Right breast stereotactic biopsy | 21 | IDC, right breast, stage 2 | Yes | |
| Referral to breast surgeon | Left breast needle localization | 223 | DCIS, left breast | Yes | |
| 5 | Follow up with provider in 2 months | Left breast Ultrasound | 92 | BIRADS 1 | |
| Bilateral diagnostic mammogram | 224 | BIRADS 4 | |||
| Bilateral Ultrasound | 224 | BIRADS 4 | |||
| Right stereotactic needle core biopsy | 245 | Patient declined biopsy | |||
| Right breast needle localization | 330 | DCIS, right breast | No | ||
| 6 | Screening Mammography | Unilateral Mammogram, right breast | 16 | BIRADS 4 | |
| Core breast biopsy, right | 34 | DCIS, right breast | No | ||
* BIRADS Breast imaging-reporting and data system
† DCIS Ductal carcinoma in situ
‡ IDC Invasive ductal carcinoma