
Dr. Hanaa AlKhawari
Al-Amiri Hospital, KuwaitTitle: Kuwait national mammography screening program: outcomes of 5 years of screening in kuwaiti women
Abstract
Report the data of the Kuwait
National Mammography Screening Program (KNMSP) for a 5-year period. We included
mammography screens done for Kuwaiti women (age 40 years and older) who
attended the KNMSP from 2014 to 2019 to screen for breast cancer. A full-field
digital mammography system was used to acquire the mammographic images in
craniocaudal and mediolateral oblique projections. Independent double-blind
reading of the mammograms was performed by two radiologists.
The sample size was 14 773
asymptomatic women met inclusion criteria (mean [SD] age, 51.8 (8.2). Lesions
were detected in 551 women (3.7%). These included 233 malignant lesions
(233/551, 42.3%), 57 high-risk lesions (10.3%) and 261 benign lesions (47.4%).
The participation rate was 7.8% of the target population of women 40-69 years
of age. The majority of breast cancer cases were reported in the age group
45-49 years (23.2%). The KNMSP study recall rate for 5 consecutive years was in
a range of 11.9-16.5% (mean, 14.3%). The detection rate of ductal/lobular
carcinoma in situ and invasive breast cancer were 2.5 and 13.6 per 1000
screened women, respectively. Invasive ductal carcinoma was the most common
type. Only 4314 women followed up within 12-15 months of the first mammography
for a retention rate of 29.2%.
Biography
Hanaa AlKhawari is a diagnostic
Consultant Radiologist specializing in Body Magnetic Resonance Imaging. She got
graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University in 1989. She received
a fellowship from the Royal College of Surgeons, Faculty of Radiologist in 1996
from Dublin, Ireland, a fellowship from the Royal College of Radiologist from
London, UK in 1997, a Subspecialty fellowship in MRI from Middlesex Hospital,
London, UK in 1997 and Subspecialty fellowship in pediatric radiology, Great
Ormond street hospital, London, UK in 1997.