Although women are the fastest growing group of veterans across all military branches, there are limited data about mammography screening utilization in female veterans. Using a nationally representative cross-sectional survey, we evaluated the association between veteran status and mammography screening.

Transportation barriers significantly limit participation in breast cancer screening trials among Hispanic women, exacerbating disparities in breast cancer outcomes and underrepresentation in clinical research. Rideshare programs have emerged as a potential solution, but their long-term sustainability remains underexplored. Understanding sustainability capacity is critical to ensuring these programs can address structural barriers, promote health equity, and improve outcomes for underserved populations.

Breast cancer is the leading cause of death from cancer worldwide and is the most common cancer. According to The World Health Organization, “health equity is defined as the absence of unfair and avoidable or remediable differences in health among population groups defined socially, economically, demographically, or geographically.”Achieving health equity can address disparities in all arenas of medicine, including access to breast imaging and improving breast cancer outcomes. Thus, it is important to recognize the unique challenges of diverse practice types, including in the safety net, community, and global setting when it comes to breast health and imaging inequities, and also to formulate strategies to bridge the gap, from a practice, policy, and research perspective.