Breast Cancer

Many women covered by Medicare are not having mammograms

Published in Medical Device Law Weekly, April 25th, 2004

Six years after Medicare began paying for an annual mammogram for women over 40, only 51.8% of the eligible women over 50 had at least one mammogram in 2001 or 2002, according to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

That translates to about 7.6 million women in the U.S.

The numbers suggest older women may be misjudging the value of regular breast cancer screenings.

Two mammograms within 10 months in 1994 cleared Lorna Johns of breast cancer so she decided to skip the X-ray the following year. "That was wrong," she said. "That was the one I shouldn't have skipped."

She was 68 when her...

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Source: Medical Device Law Weekly (2004-04-25)

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