Native Women Less Likely to Get Mammogram, Study Shows

Breast cancer is the second deadliest cancer among women, behind lung cancer. But it's treatable when caught early, and doctors recommend regular mammogram to screen for breast cancer for women between 40 and 89 years old.

Neither white women nor their Indigenous counterparts are getting mammograms as frequently as they should, according to a new study.

Researchers conducted the study between 2005 and 2019 using Medicare fee-for-service claims data, and later analyzed testing frequency for 457,476 women living in Arizona, California, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Washington. The last claims-based trends on mammograms were from 1991 to 2001.

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