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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jun 5.
Published in final edited form as: AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2017 Jan 11;208(3):676–686. doi: 10.2214/AJR.16.16300

TABLE 2.

Breast MRI Surveillance in Women With a Personal History of Breast Cancer

Reference Year No. of Women With Personal History of Breast Cancer Age (y), Mean (Range) No. of MRI Examinations No. of MRI-Detected Cancers Cancer Detection Rate (No. of Cancers/1000 Examinations)

Elmore and Margenthaler [49] 2010 141a 51 (24–73) 202 2 9.9
Brennan et al. [48] 2010 144 49 (22–73) NR (1–11 examinations/woman) 18b 10.6c
Schacht et al. [53] 2014 208 52 (NR) NR 6 28.8c
Gweon et al. [51] 2014 607 48d (20–72) 932 13 13.9e
Giess et al. [50] 2015 691f 52d (26–86) 1194 12 10.1
Weinstock et al. [54] 2015 249 46d (25–64) 571 11 19.3
Lehman et al. [52] 2016 915 NR (< 40 to ≥ 70) 915 18 19.7

Note—NR = not reported.

a

Includes eight women with known genetic mutation.

b

Includes one woman with two metachronous cancers.

c

Number of cancers per 1000 women, because the number of examinations was not reported.

d

Median age.

e

Cancer detection rate over three rounds of surveillance. Cancer detection rate for first round was 11/607, or 18.1 per 1000 examinations.

f

Includes 172 women with additional family history of breast cancer.