Stereotactic Directional Vacuum-Assisted Breast Biopsy

National Taiwan University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Adult Patients; Breast Cancer; Stereotactic Directional Vacuum-assisted Breast Biopsy; Female

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01957020

200806017R

Details and patient eligibility

About

Stereotactic directional vacuum-assisted breast biopsy (ST DVAB) is a standard biopsy procedure for suspicious findings on mammograms in Western countries for more than 10 years [1-3], it has replaced the needle localization (NLOC) excisional biopsy for the lesions alike and was reported to feature a high sensitivity, very low delayed false-negative rate (less than 2%)[4,5]. Moreover, it causes less scarring, less psychologic stress to patients and less morbidity compared with needle localization excisional biopsy [6,7]. However, its sensitivity, accuracy has seldom been reported in Asian countries [8] , since most Asian women have different breast parenchyma pattern, different breast cancer prevalence. Therefore, we retrospectively reviewed outcomes of the two groups of patients receiving either ST DVAB or NLOC excisional biopsy, trying to investigate if ST DVAB can be an effective alternative to NLOC excisional biopsy in our country.

Enrollment: 130 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 30 to 80 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• The indication for ST DVAB was lesions with suspicious nature for malignancy seen on mammograms which biopsy is necessitated for tissue proof, or probably benign or benign appearing lesions seen on mammograms but patients or clinicians requested biopsy

Exclusion criteria