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Article: Hispanic women in border states less likely to receive screening for breast, cervical cancers.
- Article from:
- Cancer Weekly
- Article date:
- April 8, 2003
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2003 APR 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Hispanic women, particularly those who live in counties along the U.S.-Mexico border, are less likely than non-Hispanic women to undergo routine screenings for breast and cervical cancers, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The women least likely to be screened are Hispanic women aged 65 years or older, yet women in this age group are at greater risk for both cancers compared to younger women. Lack of access to health care services in the border region and the need for culturally sensitive and appropriate preventive health care in the United States may partly account for lower cancer ...