TOTAL COST OF BREAST CARE IS 47% LOWER WITH INCREASED USE OF MAMMOGRAPHIC SCREENING VERSUS NO SCREENING; WORK-UP, TREATMENT SAVINGS REPORTED AT RSNA
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
The cumulative cost of care for breast cancer patients could be almost halved by broadening mammography programs so that 75% of breast cancers are detected via screening, Elizabeth Glenn, MD, Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, Texas, maintained Dec. 1 at the Radiological Society of North America annual conference in Chicago.