Beginning in November, SWCWC will offer a new enhanced service for screening mammography patients which employs secondary screening through proven Artificial Intelligence technology. Transpara® from ScreenPoint Medical provides radiologists with a ‘second pair of eyes’ helping detect cancers earlier and reduce recall rates. This optional service has a $29 out-of-pocket cost which is due at the time of your scheduled mammogram.

What is Transpara?

We have teamed up with a company called ScreenPoint to use a special kind of AI called Transpara. Transpara helps “read” your mammogram images. It points out areas that might be risky for cancer. This helps the radiologist focus on those spots that might be easy to miss otherwise.

Your Mammogram

When you go for your mammogram, you might feel a little worried. But most women who get checked do not have signs of cancer on their mammogram. Imagine this: if 100 women get screening mammograms, 10 may be asked to get some more tests and only about 1 of them might have cancer show up on her test. Having regular mammograms helps us catch cancer early when it’s still small!

Your Radiologist

The people who check mammograms, called radiologists, are very careful. They look at the pictures closely. If they see something that seems suspicious, they will ask for more pictures to get a better look. This happens to about 10 out of the 100 women. But don’t worry too much only about 1 woman in every 100 women screened ends up having cancer. And when cancer is caught early, there are a lot of treatments that work and are available.
So, when a radiologist looks at your mammogram, they are searching for something that’s hard to spot and might not even be there.

What is Artificial Intelligence (AI)?

Now, let’s talk about Artificial Intelligence or AI. Each woman’s breasts are a bit different. AI helps by learning from lots of mammograms to recognize tiny signs of cancer that can be hard for humans to see. It is like finding a polar bear in a snowstorm! Our skilled and careful radiologists use AI to make themselves “superhuman.”

This is Transpara Breast Care

Our radiologists really care about your safety. Transpara software helps them work better and feel more confident in what they are doing. We are happy to offer this service during your mammogram so we can all feel even better about the results.