Susan G. Komen Event 21
Ponte Vedra Recorder · October 15, 2015
Q&A
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mammogram within the past two years
compared to only 32 percent of women
ages 40 and older with no health insurance. Women who don’t have health
insurance are much less likely to get
mammograms than women with health
insurance.
Other obstacles to breast cancer
screening include low income, no
primary health care provider, little or
no access to a mammography center,
not receiving a recommendation from a
doctor to get mammography screening,
cultural differences, language barriers,
misunderstanding of screenin