Publications by authors named "Meagan Elizabeth Brennan"
Article Synopsis
- - High breast density increases the risk of breast cancer and reduces the effectiveness of mammography, prompting this review to analyze clinical guidelines for screening women with dense breasts.
- - The systematic review included 23 guidelines from 2014 to 2024, finding variability in quality and recommendations: most suggest annual or biennial mammograms for women over 40, while a few endorse advanced screening methods like tomosynthesis or MRI.
- - There's a lack of consensus on supplemental screening practices, with many guidelines relying on low-quality evidence; improvements in the quality of future guidelines are necessary as the understanding of screening benefits continues to evolve.
Aim: Survivorship care plans (SCPs) have been proposed for universal use with the aim of addressing the many unmet needs of cancer survivors. Trials have failed to find a significant impact of SCPs on quality of life outcomes. This study evaluated quality of life, unmet needs, satisfaction with health care and perception of cancer care coordination at the end of treatment in a cohort of women at the end of treatment for early breast cancer.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: Preoperative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is increasingly used for staging women with breast cancer, including screening for occult contralateral cancer. This article is a review and meta-analysis of studies reporting contralateral MRI in women with newly diagnosed invasive breast cancer.
Methods: We systematically reviewed the evidence on contralateral MRI, calculating pooled estimates for positive predictive value (PPV), true-positive:false-positive ratio (TP:FP), and incremental cancer detection rate (ICDR) over conventional imaging.