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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 May 17.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Intern Med. 2016 Mar 22;164(10):649–655. doi: 10.7326/M15-0964

Appendix Table 3.

Expected Counts for 1000 Women in the U.S. Mammography Screening Population Aged 50-59 y

Variable Reference Diagnosis, n
Total, n
Benign Nonproliferative Benign Proliferative Atypia DCIS Invasive Breast Cancer
Pathologist interpretation
    Benign nonproliferative 381.8 10.8 1.5 2.0 0.5 -
    Benign proliferative 120.2 98.2 12.0 2.0 0.8 -
    Atypia 8.3 18.2 18.6 4.3 0.0 -
    DCIS 3.1 4.0 6.7 51.3 8.8 -
    Invasive breast cancer 2.1 1.7 0.2 1.6 241.2 -
Total women, n* 516 133 39 61 251 1000

DCIS = ductal carcinoma in situ.

*

Expected totals according to population prevalence estimates (6).