Clinical Study

Breast Cancer Preoperative Staging: Does Contrast-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Mammography Modify Surgery?

Table 8

Site and number of first failure after treatment.

Change surgery
NoYes

SiteN (%)N (%)
Local15*(3.7)5**(4.2)
Regional3 (0.7)1 (0.8)
Contra lateral breast cancer5***(1.2)0
Distant11 (2.7)9 (7.6)
None373 (91.6)103 (87.3)

*Includes one patient with concurrent contra lateral breast cancer and four patients with synchronous distant metastases.
**Includes one patient with concurrent distant metastases.
***Includes one patients with concurrent ipsilateral local failure.