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Mammograms and Breast Cancer Awareness

  • In one study, 94% of women whose physicians had recommended mammograms had obtained one in the last 2 years, whereas only 36% of those whose physicians had not made the recommendation had done so.
  • Women age 65 and older are less likely to get mammograms than younger women (55% vs. 65% for women ages 40-49), even though breast cancer risk increases with age.
  • Hispanic women have fewer mammograms (58%) than Caucasian women (68%) and African American women (68%).
  • Women below poverty level are less likely than women at higher incomes to have had a mammogram within the past 2 years (44% vs. 65%).
  • Mammography use increased between 1989-1997 for all groups except American Indians and Alaska Natives. 
  • Only 5 states do not mandate insurance coverage of mammograms- Hawaii, Mississippi, South Carolina, Utah and Wyoming.  (Source: National Breast Cancer Awareness Month Promotion Guide, 2000.)

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Created: 10/22/2000  -  Donnica Moore, M.D.



 Women age 65 and older are less likely to get mammograms than younger women (55% vs. 65% for women ages 40-49), even though breast cancer risk increases with age. 


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