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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 3.

Proportion of women not using their closest facility and for the subset not using the closes facility, differential 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)

Not using closest* facility (%) Differential travel time (min.); median (IQR) ** Not using closest* facility (%) Differential travel time (min.); median (IQR) **
All exams 23.4 14 (8,25) 48.1 20 (11,40)
Age (years)
 <40 29.6 15 (9,25) 42.6 22 (13,38)
 40-49 25.8 14 (8,24) 50.1 20 (11,40)
 50-59 24.7 14 (8,25) 49.8 19 (11,39)
 60-69 22.7 14 (8,25) 49.1 20 (11,41)
 70-79 18.9 13 (7,25) 43.8 16 (10,45)
 80+ 14.9 12 (7,23) 15.4 8 (8,9)
Race
 Non-Hispanic white 22.0 15 (9,26) 47.5 22 (12,45)
 Non-Hispanic black 27.0 18 (10,31) 64.9 25 (14,43)
 Hispanic 32.5 9 (6,14) 46.9 13 (8,22)
 Non-Hispanic Asian 23.7 12 (7,22) 50.0 12 (6,23)
 Non-Hispanic Other 24.7 13 (8,22) 53.3 17 (7,27)
Education
 < HS grad 19.2 10 (7,20) 41.3 12 (8,46)
 HS grad or GED 19.8 15 (9,26) 51.2 35 (19,56)
 Some College 23.8 15 (9,25) 51.3 22 (11,45)
 College grad/post grad 24.8 14 (8,23) 46.4 17 (10,35)
Rural/Urban by ZIP Code
 Large Rural town 23.2 25 (13,35) 51.9 34 (23,58)
 Small town/Isolated rural 23.1 23 (13,38) 75.9 41 (23,67)
 Suburban 28.3 15 (9,24) 57.9 20 (18,30)
 Urban Core 22.9 11 (7,17) 39.5 14 (8,20)
BCSC 5 year risk score
 High Risk (>1.67) 21.1 16 (9,27) 49.1 20 (11,46)
 Average Risk (<1.67) 24.3 14 (8,25) 41.6 20 (11,43)
Breast screening history
 Screened in past 30 months 22.9 14 (8,25) 47.3 19 (11,39)
 Not screened in past 30 months 23.5 13 (8,23) 50.4 24 (13,48)
Family history
 Positive 22.5 15 (8,25) 45.6 20 (11,43)
 Negative 23.4 14 (8,25) 50.0 19 (10,40)
Breast density
 Almost entirely fatty 21.8 15 (8,25) 45.7 22 (15,46)
 Scattered fibroglandular 22.6 16 (9,28) 46.7 24 (14,46)
 Heterogeneously dense 24.4 15 (8,26) 47.3 22 (12,43)
 Extremely dense 26.1 13 (7,22) 48.5 18 (10,38)
History of breast procedure
 None 23.1 13 (8,23) 46.5 17 (9,33)
 Biopsy only 23.6 15 (8,26) 49.6 19 (11,39)
 Aspiration only 27.3 15 (8,26) 58.8 15 (7,21)
 Both biopsy and aspiration 21.1 17 (10,27) 46.2 23 (13,46)
*

Closest defined a s any facility within 5 minutes of geographical closest facility

**

Median and interquartile range (IQR) of differential travel time for subjects not using the c losest facility.