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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Surg. 2013 Oct 7;207(1):10.1016/j.amjsurg.2013.05.014. doi: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2013.05.014

Table 1.

Characteristics of the women in the study with high-risk lesions, with and without follow-up surgery within 6 months of diagnosis.

P-value (adjusted for registry) Women without follow-up surgery*, N, (row %) Women with follow-up Surgery*, N, (row %) Women with high-risk lesions
N=450 (47) N=507 (53) Characteristic (N, column %, N=957)
0.0026 Age at mammography, years
120 (45) 148 (55) 40–49 (268, 28%)
138 (41) 195 (59) 50–59 (333, 35%)
104 (53) 94 (48) 60–69 (198, 21%)
88 (56) 70 (44) 70+ (158, 17%)
0.48 Personal history of breast cancer
427 (47) 488 (53) No (915, 96%)
23 (55) 19 (45) Yes (42,4%)
0.38 Family history of breast cancer
321 (48) 351 (52) No (672, 70%)
60 (43) 80 (57) Yes (140, 15%)
69 (48) 76 (52) Unknown (145, 15%)
0.86 Menopausal status
117 (46) 140 (55) Pre (257, 27%)
294 (49) 305 (51) Post (599, 63%)
39 (39) 62 (61) Missing (101, 11)
0.62 Hormone therapy use
304 (48) 330 (52) No (634, 66%)
87 (46) 103 (54) Yes (190, 20%)
59 (44) 74 (56) Unknown (133, 14%)
0.58 Indication for mammogram
401 (47) 451 (53) Routine screening (852, 89%)
49 (47) 56 (53) Short interval follow-up (105, 11%)
0.097 Time since last mammography
57 (50) 58 (50) <1 year (115, 12%)
316 (48) 349 (53) 12–35 months (665, 70%)
23 (36) 41 (64) 36–59 months (64, 7%)
44 (52) 41 (48) No previous mammo/5+ years ago (85,9%)
10 (36) 18 (64) Unknown (28, 3%)
0.63 15 (52) BI-RADS breast density
14 (48) 157 (49) Almost entirely fat (29, 3%)
166 (51) 234 (57) Scattered fibroglandular tissue (323, 35%)
175 (43) 45 (52) Heterogeneously dense (409, 43)
42 (48) 56 (51) Extremely dense (87, 9%)
53 (49) Missing (109, 11%)
0.0061 73 (53) 64 (47) Exam year
138 (52) 130 (49) 1994–1998 (137, 14%)
165 (42) 231 (58) 1999–2001 (268, 28%)
74 (47) 82 (53) 2002–2005 (396, 41%)
2006–2007 (156, 16%)
<0.0001 Lesion type on needle biopsy
265 (39) 420 (61) ADH (685, 72%)
105 (61) 68 (39) Lobular Neoplasia (173, 18%)
80 (81) 19 (19) Papillary (199, 10%)
*

including excisional biopsies, lumpectomies and mastectomies

trend test

ADH-Atypical ductal hyperplasia