RNA recovery from specimens of duct-washing cytology performed contemporaneously with mammary ductoscopy

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Table 1 The clinical information of the patients

Patients’ no.	Sample no.	y/o	DWC	MD finding	RNA yields (ng)	RIN
1	1	42	BC	BC	1448.5	6.2
2	2	71	BC	IDP	803.7	7.9
2	3	71	BC	IDP	1030.5	8.6
3	4	37	BC	BC-suspected	487.2	3.4
3	5	37	BC	BC-suspected	488.9	7.2
4	6	68	BC-suspected	BC-suspected	52.2	8.2
4	7	68	BC-suspected	BC-suspected	57.6	7.6
5	8	31	BC-suspected	BC	176.7	6.7
6	9	37	BC	BC	97.9	nd
7	10	41	Undetermined	BC-suspected	125.9	7.4
8	11	41	BC-suspected	BC	97.6	4.2
8	12	41	BC-suspected	BC	289.8	3.5
9	13	49	BC^a	IDP	123.2	3.7
9	14	49	BC^a	IDP	205.8	3.3
10	15	62	IDP	IDP	655.6	8.1
11	16	40	IDP	IDP	277.7	7.6
11	17	40	IDP	IDP	252.8	5.8
12	18	53	IDP	IDP	54.7	7.2
13	19	66	IDP	IDP	121.5	7.1
14	20	43	IDP	IDP-suspected	2419.4	2.4
15	21	59	IDP	IDP	353.8	2.4
16	22	45	IDP	IDP	174.3	2.8
17	23	47	IDP	IDP	63.5	2.9
18	24	67	IDP	IDP	79.4	1.0
19	25	49	IDP	IDP	141.9	4.2
19	26	49	IDP	IDP	135.4	3.7
20	27	37	IDP	IDP	2673.0	1.0
21	28	40	IDP	IDP	97.8	5.2
22	29	41	IDP	IDP	78.6	3.2
23	30	49	IDP	IDP	51.9	5.5
24	31	43	IDP	BC	546.3	3.5
25	32	38	IDP	BC	97.2	2.1
26	33	44	IDP	BC	153.1	5.1
27	34	36	IDP	BC	183.5	2.5
28	35	62	Inappropriate	IDP	237.9	4.5
29	36	33	Inappropriate	IDP	198.1	3.7
30	37	45	Benign^b	IDP	89.7	1.0
31	38	41	Not performed^c	Duct ectasia	1371.7	2.0
32	39	47	Not performed^c	Duct ectasia	149.9	3.2
33	40	40	Not performed^c	Duct ectasia	255.1	5.5
34	41	49	Not performed^c	Duct ectasia	331.7	4.0
35	42	41	Not performed^c	Duct ectasia	732.9	2.6
35	43	41	Not performed^c	Duct ectasia	530.2	2.6
36	44	57	Not fully collected^d	(Ruptured the duct)	75.4	2.8
37	45	67	Not collected	Mastopathy-suspected	1072.8	3.4

Based on DWC, 8 patients were diagnosed as BC (patient no. 1–3, 6, and 9) and BC suspected (patient no. 4, 5, and 8), and one patient (patient no. 7) was undetermined
nd not determined
^aUnder observation at another hospital
^bHyperplastic epithelium and stroma
^cNot performed due to the absence of elevated lesions
^dRuptured the ducts and air leaked out

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