Publications by authors named "Teresita Macarol"
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted breast cancer screening and diagnostic imaging in the United States. We sought to evaluate how medical facilities prioritized breast imaging services during periods of reduced capacity or upon re-opening after closures. In fall 2020, we surveyed 77 breast imaging facilities within the Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium in the United States.
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- The Mammography Quality Standards Act mandates audits of mammography facilities, but lacks specific metrics for evaluation, prompting a study on quality benchmark compliance.
- Researchers analyzed data from 114 breast cancer screening facilities in Illinois over five years to assess trends in meeting quality benchmarks through participation in a quality improvement program.
- Results showed increased compliance with various benchmarks, particularly in cancer detection and timeliness of care, indicating that continued participation in the program positively impacted the quality of mammography services.
Purpose: Compared to non-Latina (nL) white women, nL black women are diagnosed with more aggressive breast cancers, which in turn should be more likely to go undetected on screening mammography and subsequently arise as interval breast cancer (IBC). We sought to estimate the extent of an anticipated racial disparity in IBC within a single, large health care organization.
Methods: The present analysis focuses on 4357 breast cancers diagnosed between 2001 and 2012 and within 18 months of a screening mammogram (N = 714,218).