Breast magnetic resonance imaging for surveillance of women with a personal history of breast cancer: outcomes stratified by interval between definitive surgery and surveillance MR imaging

Table 4 Pathological characteristics of MR-detected intramammary breast cancers and extramammary cancers at surveillance breast MR imaging in women with a personal history of breast cancer

					Subsequent cancer						Initial primary breast cancer
Age range, years	Location	Final assessment	Type of surgery	Initial surgery interval^a	Pathology	Size, mm	TNM	ER	PR	HER2	Pathology	Size, mm	TNM	ER	PR	HER2
35–40	contralateral breast	BI-RADS 3	Mastectomy	60.0	IDC	9	T1bN0M0	pos	pos	neg	IDC	30	T2N1M0	neg	neg	neg
50–55	contralateral breast	BI-RADS 4	BCS	56.3	DCIS	15	TisN0M0	pos	pos	neg	DCIS	15	TisN0M0	pos	pos	neg
45–50	contralateral breast	BI-RADS 4	BCS	24.7	Mucinous carcinoma	7	T1bN0M0	pos	pos	neg	DCIS with microinvasion	1	T1miN0M0	pos	pos	neg
40–45	contralateral breast	BI-RADS 4	BCS	38.7	ILC	11	T1cN0M0	pos	pos	neg	IDC	26	T2N0M0	pos	pos	neg
70–75	sternum	Suspicious for malignancy	BCS	81.5	N/A	–	–	–	–	–	IDC	23	T2N0M0	pos	neg	neg
60–65	mediastinum	Suspicious for malignancy	BCS	60.4	Metastatic carcinoma	–	–	pos	neg	neg	ILC	26	T2N0M0	pos	neg	neg
45–50	chest wall	Suspicious for malignancy	Mastectomy	60.4	Metastatic carcinoma	–	–	pos	neg	neg	IDC	10	T1bN0M0	pos	pos	neg

BCS breast conservation surgery, IDC invasive ductal carcinoma, DCIS ductal carcinoma in situ, ILC invasive lobular carcinoma, N/A not available
^aInterval between initial surgery and surveillance breast MR examination by which the subsequent cancer was detected (months)

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