Breast cancer risk characteristics of women undergoing whole‐breast ultrasound screening versus mammography alone
Background There are no consensus guidelines for supplemental breast cancer screening with whole‐breast ultrasound. However, criteria for women at high risk of mammography screening failures (interval invasive cancer or advanced cancer) have been identified. Mammography screening failure risk was ev...
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Published in | Cancer Vol. 129; no. 16; pp. 2456 - 2468 |
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Main Authors | , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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United States
Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
15.08.2023
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Summary: | Background
There are no consensus guidelines for supplemental breast cancer screening with whole‐breast ultrasound. However, criteria for women at high risk of mammography screening failures (interval invasive cancer or advanced cancer) have been identified. Mammography screening failure risk was evaluated among women undergoing supplemental ultrasound screening in clinical practice compared with women undergoing mammography alone.
Methods
A total of 38,166 screening ultrasounds and 825,360 screening mammograms without supplemental screening were identified during 2014–2020 within three Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium (BCSC) registries. Risk of interval invasive cancer and advanced cancer were determined using BCSC prediction models. High interval invasive breast cancer risk was defined as heterogeneously dense breasts and BCSC 5‐year breast cancer risk ≥2.5% or extremely dense breasts and BCSC 5‐year breast cancer risk ≥1.67%. Intermediate/high advanced cancer risk was defined as BCSC 6‐year advanced breast cancer risk ≥0.38%.
Results
A total of 95.3% of 38,166 ultrasounds were among women with heterogeneously or extremely dense breasts, compared with 41.8% of 825,360 screening mammograms without supplemental screening (p < .0001). Among women with dense breasts, high interval invasive breast cancer risk was prevalent in 23.7% of screening ultrasounds compared with 18.5% of screening mammograms without supplemental imaging (adjusted odds ratio, 1.35; 95% CI, 1.30–1.39); intermediate/high advanced cancer risk was prevalent in 32.0% of screening ultrasounds versus 30.5% of screening mammograms without supplemental screening (adjusted odds ratio, 0.91; 95% CI, 0.89–0.94).
Conclusions
Ultrasound screening was highly targeted to women with dense breasts, but only a modest proportion were at high mammography screening failure risk. A clinically significant proportion of women undergoing mammography screening alone were at high mammography screening failure risk.
Whole‐breast ultrasound screening is highly targeted to women with dense breasts, but only a modest proportion are at high risk of interval or advanced breast cancer. Consideration of other breast cancer risk factors beyond breast density could facilitate identification of women at high risk of mammography screening failures who may be appropriate for supplemental ultrasound screening. |
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Bibliography: | ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 Garth Rauscher: data curation, funding acquisition, investigation, writing - review and editing Brian L. Sprague: conceptualization, data curation, funding acquisition, investigation, writing - original draft Nila Alsheik: data curation, investigation, writing - review and editing Sally D. Herschorn: investigation, writing - review and editing Laura Ichikawa: conceptualization, data curation, formal analysis, investigation, methodology, writing - review and editing Ellen S. O’Meara: data curation, investigation, writing - review and editing Shuai Chen: investigation, methodology, writing - review and editing Donald L. Weaver: investigation, writing - review and editing Natasha K. Stout: funding acquisition, investigation, writing - review and editing Kathryn P. Lowry: conceptualization, investigation, writing - review and editing Janie M. Lee: investigation, writing - review and editing Hannah Perry: investigation, writing - review and editing Diana L. Miglioretti: data curation, funding acquisition, investigation, writing - review and editing Joanna Eavey: conceptualization, data curation, formal analysis, investigation, methodology, writing - review and editing Jeanne S. Mandelblatt: funding acquisition, investigation, writing - review and editing Author Contributions |
ISSN: | 0008-543X 1097-0142 1097-0142 |
DOI: | 10.1002/cncr.34768 |