Cancer Screening

Racial differences, poverty linked to mammography use

Published in Women's Health Weekly, November 18th, 2004

Better detection and treatment are helping to reduce death from breast cancer in America, but poor, rural, and minority women - especially Native Americans - face barriers that keep them from taking advantage of cancer screenings that could potentially save their lives, researchers say.

Electra Paskett, director of the Center for Population Health and Health Disparities at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, led a team of scientists at Ohio State and the Wake Forest University School of Medicine in studying hundreds of women in Robeson County, North Carolina. The area is one of the poorest in the state, and is home to the largest concentration of...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (2004-11-18)

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