ArticleJournal of the American College of Radiology : JACR2016
Travel Burden to Breast MRI and Utilization: Are Risk and Sociodemographics Related?
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- Screening of breast cancer in higher-risk Taiwanese women using contrast-enhanced mammography.Heliyon · 2025Article
- The association of travel burden with prenatal care utilization, what happens after provider-selection.BMC health services research · 2024Article
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- Using the Translational Science Benefits Model to assess the impact of the Penn Implementation Science Center in Cancer Control.Journal of clinical and translational science · 2024Article
- Protocol for a pragmatic stepped wedge cluster randomized clinical trial testing behavioral economic implementation strategies to increase supplemental breast MRI screening among patients with extremely dense breasts.Implementation science : IS · 2023Article
- Addressing Disparities Related to Access of Multimodality Breast Imaging Services Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic.Academic radiology · 2022Review
- Prospective multicenter assessment of patient preferences for properties of gadolinium-based contrast media and their potential socioeconomic impact in a screening breast MRI setting.European radiology · 2021Article
- Identifying key barriers to effective breast cancer control in rural settings.Preventive medicine · 2021Article
- Comparative Access to and Use of Digital Breast Tomosynthesis Screening by Women's Race/Ethnicity and Socioeconomic Status.JAMA network open · 2021Article
- Optimal Screening in Breast Cancer Survivors With Dense Breasts on Mammography.Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology · 2020Article
- Non-clinical Drivers of Variation in Preoperative MRI Utilization for Breast Cancer.Annals of surgical oncology · 2020Article
- Optimizing Travel Time to Outpatient Interventional Radiology Procedures in a Multi-Site Hospital System Using a Google Maps Application.Journal of digital imaging · 2018Article
- Addressing Potential Health Disparities in the Adoption of Advanced Breast Imaging Technologies.Academic radiology · 2018Review
- Racial Differences in Geographic Access to Medical Care as Measured by Patient Report and Geographic Information Systems.Medical care · 2017Article
- Geospatial Approaches to Cancer Control and Population Sciences.Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology · 2017Article
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Abstract
purposeMammography, unlike MRI, is relatively geographically accessible. Additional travel time is often required to access breast MRI. However, the amount of additional travel time and whether it varies on the basis of sociodemographic or breast cancer risk factors is unknown.
methodsThe investigators examined screening mammography and MRI between 2005 and 2012 in the Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium by (1) travel time to the closest and actual mammography facility used and the difference between the two, (2) women's breast cancer risk factors, and (3) sociodemographic characteristics. Logistic regression was used to examine the odds of traveling farther than the closest facility in relation to women's characteristics.
resultsAmong 821,683 screening mammographic examinations, 76.6% occurred at the closest facility, compared with 51.9% of screening MRI studies (n = 3,687). The median differential travel time among women not using the closest facility for mammography was 14 min (interquartile range, 8-25 min) versus 20 min (interquartile range, 11-40 min) for breast MRI. Differential travel time for both imaging modalities did not vary notably by breast cancer risk factors but was significantly longer for nonurban residents. For non-Hispanic black compared with non-Hispanic white women, the adjusted odds of traveling farther than the closest facility were 9% lower for mammography (odds ratio, 0.91; 95% confidence interval, 0.87-0.95) but more than two times higher for MRI (odds ratio, 2.64; 95% confidence interval, 1.36-5.13).
conclusionsBreast cancer risk factors were not related to excess travel time for screening MRI, but sociodemographic factors were, suggesting the possibility that geographic distribution of advanced imaging may exacerbated disparities for some vulnerable populations.
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