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Here's some, uh, data now from my institution.

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Um, we started doing abbreviated MR with

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the, um, full support of our chairman,

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Dr. Shaw, who you know is a leader in,

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uh, MRI and so many other things.

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Um, we were able to convince him, or he was

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involved in this decision that we were going

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to start an abbreviated protocol for women

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with dense breasts and non-actionable mammograms.

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And we started this back in 2016,

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and I'll share some of our results.

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We chose not to be in the ACRIN study because

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we were doing this at our, um, our site instead.

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Again, average-risk women who did

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not qualify for full protocol MR.

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Dense breasts had a non-actionable

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screen in the prior year, and we do

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a T2, which is about 4 minutes, a pre-

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gad and a post-gad, each one about 2.3 minutes.

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3 minutes.

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So, for a total of about 8.

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6 minutes, we do our post-scatter

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around 20 to 30 seconds after injection.

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So, a total of 8.

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6 minutes about, and then

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the reconstruction is done.

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We'll talk about that should be done,

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not while the patient's on the table.

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So in this publication, we have 511 women.

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Um, some of them got excluded

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because of some different issues.

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They weren't dense.

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Um, they hadn't had a tomo.

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Um, there was some gad extravasation

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and they didn't want to come back, et

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cetera, but here were our outcomes.

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We did have, um, 13 patients who

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are put in category three and that's

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category three for follow-up MR.

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Um, Um, and then 42 patients

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that were category 4 or 5.

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Some opted not to have biopsies performed.

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Believe it or not.

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Some had biopsies canceled.

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I don't have the data on who

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refused and what happened to her.

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But we had 12 cancers in 11 women, and I'm

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going to show you some of these examples in

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a moment of the 38 patients with 39 biopsies.

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Um, the majority, of course, had benign

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results, but there were 12 patients with

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13 cancers, a pretty good predictive value

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at around 31 percent of those recommended

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for biopsy. Seven invasive, five high grade is good.

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PPV 2 and good PPV 3.

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The 13 patients assigned the BI-RADS category

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3, there was actually one cancer in that group.

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Eight months after the category 3 recommendation,

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we did a biopsy and it was a small cancer.

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So overall, our cancer detection rate, remember,

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average-risk women, just dense breasts, 27.

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4 after negative DBT or non-actionable study.

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That's incredibly high.

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It's higher than Christiane Kuhl's and others.

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Um, very, very high.

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A couple of examples.

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So here's one.

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You can see the, uh, the MIP up top

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and then the axial, uh, uh, re-, um, uh,

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subtraction on the bottom on the left.

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And then we've got the, um,

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sagittal reconstruction.

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You can see this irregular mass in the

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posterior, somewhat lateral breast right there.

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There.

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And this was an invasive ductal

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carcinoma, ER/PR positive, HER2 negative.

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Here's one again, fairly dense.

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Look at the way that little

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round ball is not distorting.

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It's buried in the band of glandular tissue.

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And that was invasive ductal carcinoma.

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That one we actually brought back.

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We did extra views.

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Maybe there's actually distortion

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now on the tomosynthesis.

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I think there is and the targeted

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ultrasound showed the lesion look at

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it in that band of dense breast tissue.

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And again, that was whoops.

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That was an invasive ductal carcinoma.

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And so we did bring her

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back for additional imaging.

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Um, here's a woman who had

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a, um, lesion on both sides.

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We actually recommended biopsy of the left area

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of linear enhancement and said, if the left was

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positive, then she should have the right biopsy.

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And so we kind of hedged a little bit on

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this one, but they were both high grade.

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Those are images there.

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Um, so I just wanted to share with

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you a very recent publication.

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Um, this is a meta-analysis of, um, of

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supplemental breast cancer screening in women

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with dense breasts and a negative mammogram.

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And this is supplemental in this case is defined.

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This is a non-American study as supplemental

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with tomosynthesis in addition to

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2D mammography, ultrasound and MRI.

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They looked at 22 studies and, um, about 261.

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1000 screens.

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I know this is very, very busy, but if

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you like references, um, here you go.

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And I just want to circle here.

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The MR results.

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You can see the incremental cancer detection 25.

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7 very large invasive cancers.

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Additional almost.

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20 per 1000, um, uh, there were some

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interval cancers, as you can see

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their increase in incremental pretty

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good PPV 1 and PPV 3 as well, MR.

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R.

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superior in incremental cancer

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detection, both in situ and invasive

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and really no statistical significance

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across the modalities and PPV 1 and 3.

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So, pretty impressive results again,

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and this very, very large meta-analysis.

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Incremental DCIS per thousand screens.

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I mean, very interesting.

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There you go.

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Faculty

Emily F. Conant, MD

Professor of Radiology, Chief of Breast Imaging, Vice Chair of Faculty Development

Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania

Tags

Screening

Neoplastic

MRI

Diagnosis & Staging

Breast

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