Table 3.
Number of cases of benign lesions present in open surgical biopsies for the incident and prevalent screening rounds
| Histological diagnosis following surgical biopsy | Prevalent round | Incident rounds |
| Complex sclerosing lesion / radial scar | 17 | 21 |
| Atypical lobular hyperplasia | 1 | 1 |
| Atypical ductal hyperplasia | 5 | 5 |
| Columnar cell change | 6 | 7 |
| Benign cyst | 0 | 1 |
| Papilloma | 8 | 29 |
| Ductal hyperplasia | 0 | 3 |
| Benign phyllodes tumour | 5 | 3 |
| Epithelial hyperplasia | 4 | 3 |
| Fibroadenoma | 6 | 5 |
| Fibrocystic change | 3 | 2 |
| Focal lactational change | 0 | 1 |
| Sclerosing adenosis | 2 | 1 |
| Hamartoma | 1 | 1 |
| No discrete lesion seen | 0 | 1 |
| Total benign lesions | 58 | 84 |