Jacky Luiten

Utility of diagnostic breast excision biopsies during two decades of screening mammography | 41 3 12.8%; 10 intermediate grade, 4.7%; 2 high grade, 0.9%) and 8.1% invasive carcinomas (11 low grade, 5.2%; 4 intermediate grade, 1.9%; 2 high grade, 0.9%; Figure 3.4). Figure 3.3 Primary versus secondary excisional biopsies per 1000 screens. Figure 3.4 (Pre‐)malignant pathology outcome of secondary excision biopsies divided per grade from 2011 to 2016. Discussion This population‐based study describes the changes in use and evaluates the added value of excision biopsies of screen‐detected mammographic suspicious breast lesions in the southern part of the Netherlands from January 1997 to January 2017.