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Self-Reported Use of Mammography and Insurance Status Among Women Aged 40 Years—United States, 1991-1992 and 1996-1997

JAMA. 1998;280:1900-1901.

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MMWR. 1998;47:825-830

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IN THE United States, breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed malignancy among women and the second leading cause of cancer death.¹ Lack of health insurance coverage often is an important financial barrier to seeking preventive health care such as mammography screenings.^2,3 To assess mammography use and the impact of insurance status on mammography use, state-specific proportions of women aged 40 years who reported receiving a mammogram during the preceding 2 years by insurance status were derived using data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) for 1991-1992 and 1996-1997. This report describes the results of this analysis, which indicate that the percentage of women reporting having had a screening mammogram during the previous 2 years increased, but women with insurance were substantially more likely than women without insurance to have had a mammogram.

Forty-six states and the District of Columbia (DC) participated in . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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