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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Coll Radiol. 2016 Mar 22;13(6):611–619. doi: 10.1016/j.jacr.2016.01.022

Table 2.

Travel time to screening breast imaging exams recorded in the Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium from 2005-2012 (N=825,370).

Mammography (N=821,683) MRI (N=3,687)

Closest Travel Time Actual Travel Time Closest Travel Time Actual Travel Time

Median time; IQR (min.) Median time; IQR (min.)
All exams 6 (3,13) 10 (5,20) 5 (2,13) 14 (6,32)
Age (years)
 <40 6 (3,13) 11 (6,23) 5 (2,21.5) 17 (5,55)
 40-49 7 (3,15) 11 (6,24) 6 (3,23) 18 (7,66)
 50-59 7 (3,16) 12 (6,24) 6 (3,21) 17 (8,52)
 60-69 7 (3,16) 11 (6,23) 7 (3,21) 17 (7.5,49)
 70-79 6 (3,14) 10 (5,20) 7 (4,14) 13 (7,45)
 80+ 5 (2,11) 8 (4,15) 5.5 (3,15.25) 7 (5,18.25)
Race
 Non-hispanic white 8 (4,17) 12 (6,24) 7 (3,22) 18 (7,55)
 Non-hispanic black 6 (3,14) 11 (6,26) 7.5 (3,17) 23.5 (11.25,57)
 Hispanic 4 (2,6) 9 (5,15) 4 (3,8) 12 (6,28.5)
 Non-hispanic Asian 5 (2,12) 9 (5,21) 5 (2,19) 13 (7,41)
 Non-hispanic Other 6 (3,17) 11 (5,25) 7 (2,24.5) 17 (8,68)
Education
 < HS grad 5 (2,16) 9 (4,22) 5 (3,24) 12 (5,41)
 HS grad or GED 8 (4,19) 12 (5,25) 13 (5,26) 28 (12,65)
 Some College 7 (3,17) 11 (5,25) 7 (4,24) 20 (9,57)
 College grad/post grad 6 (3,16) 11 (5,23) 6 (2,20) 16 (6,50)
Rural/Urban by Zip Code
 Large Rural town 9 (4,16) 13 (5,25) 12 (5,17) 27 (7,57.25)
 Small town/Isolated rural 17 (7,28) 22 (9,36) 25 (13,33) 53 (37,89)
 Suburban 19 (12,26) 24 (16,33) 19 (13,26.25) 28 (22,41)
 Urban Core 5 (2,9) 9 (5,15) 5 (2,10) 11 (6,25)
BCSC 5 year risk score
 High Risk (>1.67) 8 (4,16) 11 (6,23) 7 (3,22) 18 (7.5,52)
 Average Risk (<1.67) 7 (3,15) 11 (6,23) 6 (2,22) 16 (6,49)
Breast screening history
 Screened in past 30 months 7 (3,16) 11 (6,24) 6 (3,21) 17 (7,51)
 Not screened in past 30 months 6 (3,14) 10 (5,21) 7 (2,24) 18 (8,67)
Family history
 Positve 7 (3,16) 11 (6,23) 6 (3,21) 16 (6,49)
 Negative 7 (3,15) 11 (6,23) 6 (3,22) 17 (8,57)
Breast density
 Almost entirely fatty 7 (3,16) 11 (5,23) 10 (4,22) 22 (9,42)
 Scattered fibroglandular 8 (4,16) 11 (6,24) 8 (3,23) 20 (8,57)
 Heterogeneously dense 8 (4,16) 12 (6,23) 7 (3,21) 17 (7,53.75)
 Extremely dense 7 (3,15) 11 (6,23) 6 (2,26) 18 (6,70.5)
History of breast procedure
 None 6 (3,15) 11 (5,22) 6 (2,21.75) 16.5 (6,47)
 Biopsy only 7 (4,16) 11 (6,23) 6 (3,22.5) 17 (7,63.5)
 Aspiration only 6 (3,14) 11 (6,23) 5 (4,11) 18.5 (8.25,31)
 Both biopsy and aspiration 9 (4,20) 12 (6,26) 8 (3.5,22) 18 (8,48)