Dear Women's Imaging Insider,
Integrating patient navigation services into breast and cervical cancer screening programs improves women's adherence to screening guidelines. But it also increases healthcare costs.
Are the increased costs worth the better patient outcomes? Check out our Insider Exclusive to find out what researchers from RTI International in Research Triangle Park in North Carolina have to say.
When you've finished reading our featured article, take a look at what else is going on in the Women's Imaging Community -- including coverage from the recent American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) meeting and the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine's Conference on Machine Intelligence in Medical Imaging (C-MIMI):
- Find out how artificial intelligence could cut mammography workload in half.
- Read why the breast cancer mortality rate is higher in men than women -- and what can be done about it.
- Discover how the closing of women's health centers has affected the cervical cancer mortality rate.
- Learn how partial breast radiation therapy benefits women.
- Is screening with digital breast tomosynthesis worth the extra cost? Researchers from the University of Washington say yes.
- Discover how MRI can help predict endometriosis surgery outcomes.
Finally, if you have a comment, report, or article idea to share about any aspect of women's imaging, I invite you to contact me.
