Screening and early detection are extremely important to avoiding cancerrelated deaths. Many deaths from breast. colon and cervical cancer could be prevented by increased usage of established screening tests. Although white and African American women aged 40 and older had the same prevalence of mammography use. other racial and ethnic groups of women were less likely to have had a mammogram. The lowest prevalence of mammography use occurred among women who lacked health insurance and by immigrant women who lived in the United States for less than 10 years. The incidence of some cancers is much higher in communities of color. For example.
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