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Bypass Projection: What factors cause women to avoid annual mammogram?
The highest incidence of cancer breast and mortality worldwide and is the second leading cause of cancer death in women in the United States. While mammography is far from being perfect, remains the best tool for early detection of breast cancer.
But studies show that there were approximately one in four women, aged forty and older, a mammogram in thelast two years. This figure is even worse for low-income women with 40%, said they never got to within meters of the Bucky. A recent study of New Hampshire revealed that over one third of women in this state who qualify for the mammogram in question and never detection for breast cancer were not tested, or more than two years (cancer, 12 September 2005).
This is despite the enthusiastic efforts of groups of breast cancer detection screeningInterest to promote and raise awareness (American Cancer Society, 9 May 2005).
Of course, the issue is too complicated to try to summarize in a single shot. However, breast imaging experts agree that some other obstacles remain cancer screening programs and still affect women think of the facilities-health detección. Women
Personal experiences
The chances are good that every woman has at least one person in your life who are diagnosed with knowCancer breast cancer, breast cancer, or have been treated, had the worst of all, a breast cancer scare. And if it happened to a friend (or) even a friend of a friend, Why not the same fate as her? As a result, many women subscribe to the "ignorance is bliss" school of thought. Get a yearly mammogram may be used for highlighted in search of a problem, Dr. Daniel Kopans, director of breast imaging at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. The possibility of breast cancer is frighteningenough, the process of having a mammogram only added to the fear, "he said.
For a woman who has gone through research can be bad experiences â € "a benign form of a false positive mammogram or a â € biopsy "for a lifetime aversion to exercise, rye flour, said Dr. Carol a radiation oncologist in Ridgewood, New Jersey, and author of "The best news about radiation therapy in women health
On the other hand, personal experience may have the opposite effect. "The woman, a member of a family friend orclose with breast cancer tend to learn and learn first hand the benefits of annual mammography, "said Dr. Nancy Elliott of Montclair Breast Center in Montclair, New Jersey. But if your experience in radiology is negative, can influence all out the window, he said.
"Women sometimes give timely mammograms, because events of life, such as caring for a sick family member or loss of a spouse. Because women care in the world, we take care of takeRemember ourselves, "said Dr. Beth Deutch, founder and medical director of the HerSpace: Breast Imaging Associates in Monmouth, New Jersey.
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