Keywords:
Breast, Mammography, Screening, Cancer, Retrospective, Not applicable, Multicentre study
Authors:
S. L. Chang, S. henderson, J. Litherland; Glasgow/UK
DOI:
10.26044/ecr2020/C-04315
Purpose
Breast augmentation is the most common plastic surgical procedure. According to the International Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, there were 1,862,506 procedures performed worldwide in 2018. 7727 breast augmentations were performed in UK in 2018.
UK breast screening programme has been implemented since 1988. All women age between 50-70 are offered 3-yearly mammography tests. With increasing popularity of breast augmentation, the number of women attending for breast screening with breast implants in situ is also increasing.
Many studies have reported limited sensitivity of mammography with breast implants due to radio-opaque implants, difficulty with compression and capsular retraction. This raised the concern of delayed or missed diagnosis. Although additional push back views have been introduced in an attempt to increase the cancer detection rate, this is yet to be proven.
Our study aims to assess the cancer detection rate of screening mammograms in women with implants and compare it to the known cancer detection rate in the screening programme in Scotland