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. 2021 Oct 13;32(3):1611–1623. doi: 10.1007/s00330-021-08240-x

Table 1.

Patient and tumor characteristics in the MIPA study

Patient or tumor characteristic MRI group noMRI group p
Age at diagnosis—yearsa 57 ± 11 61 ± 11  < 0.001
Pre- or perimenopausal (%)

972/2432

(40.0%)

731/2748

(26.6%)

 < 0.001
Dense breast: ACR density category c or d (%)

1171/2336

(50.1%)

831/2503

(33.2%)

 < 0.001
Three or more first-degree relatives with history of breast or ovarian cancer (%)

35/2432

(1.4%)

34/2749

(1.2%)

0.526
BRCA1/2 mutation

20/2431

(0.8%)

14/2748

(0.5%)

0.161
Multifocal/multicentric breast cancer on DMb (%)

307/2143

(14.3%)

212/2435

(8.7%)

 < 0.001
Diameter of the largest lesion on DM and/or US—mmc

16

(11 to 24)

15

(10 to 21)

 < 0.001
Ductal carcinoma in situ at biopsy (%)

409/2421

(16.9%)

472/2554

(18.5%)

0.255
Invasive lobular histology at biopsy (%)

341/1959

(17.4%)

164/2078

(7.9%)

 < 0.001
Triple-negative breast cancer (%)

103/2234

(4.6%)

107/2391

(4.5%)

0.585
Tumor size on final pathology ≥ 20 mm (%)

799/1886

(42.4%)

537/1953

(27.5%)

 < 0.001

Distributions are given per patient, unless differently specified. Variations of denominators are due to different rates of unknown data

ACR American College of Radiology; DM digital mammography; US ultrasound

a Mean ± standard deviation

b Per-breast distribution

c Per-breast distribution, given as median and interquartile interval