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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2019 Jan 23;175(1):141–148. doi: 10.1007/s10549-018-05123-6

Table 4.

Imaging

mammo mammogram, BIRADS Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System, NA not available

Clinically detected (n = 22) Screen-detected (n = 92) P-value Interval cancers (n = 11) Screen-detected (n = 64) P-value

All Women Regular Screeners

Regularity of screening 0.13 NA
 Regular 11 (50%) 64 (70%) 11 (100%) 64 (100%)
 Irregular/no prior screening 11 (50%) 28 (30%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)

Type of screening < .01 0.02
 Alternating q6 month mammo/MRI 4 (18%) 33 (36%) 3 (27%) 31 (48%)
 Synchronous mammo/MRI 4 (18%) 38 (41%) 2 (18%) 25 (39%)
 Mammo only 13 (59%) 18 (20%) 5 (46%) 7 (11%)
 MRI only 1 (5%) 3 (3%) 1 (9%) 1 (2%)

Mammogram BIRADS density* 0.67 0.45
 Predominantly fatty 1 (5%) 2 (2%) 1 (10%) 2 (3%)
 Scattered fibroglandular 5 (24%) 29 (33%) 3 (30%) 23 (37%)
 Heterogeneously dense 9 (43%) 43 (48%) 4 (40%) 33 (52%)
 Extremely dense 4 (19%) 14 (16%) 1 (10%) 4 (6%)
 Unknown 2 (10%) 1 (1%) 1 (10%) 1 (2%)

MRI background parenchymal enhancement** 0.7 1
 Minimal 3 (33%) 21 (28%) 2 (33%) 17 (30%)
 Mild 2 (22%) 31 (42%) 2 (33%) 25 (44%)
 Moderate 2 (22%) 18 (24%) 1 (17%) 12 (21%)
 NA 2 (22%) 4 (5%) 1 (17%) 3 (5%)
*

Among women who had a mammogram

**

Among women who had an MRI