Mammogram Screening
Of women in Monterey County age 50 and over, more than four out of five (82%) had a MAMMOGRAM SCREENING for breast cancer within the past two years. Poorer women are far less likely to have received timely breast cancer screenings, with only 58% of those whose income was between 0% and 200% of the federal poverty level reporting having had a mammogram within the previous two years when surveyed in 2009. (Source: California Health Interview Survey, 2009)
Many Hispanic women are diagnosed with breast cancer late in the course of the disease, worsening their prognosis significantly.
Source: California Health Interview Survey, 2009
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