About one third of socially vulnerable women are missing recommended mammograms. That according to new research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The study found the more health-related social needs a woman had, the less likely she was to get a mammogram. Fond du Lac County Public Health Services supervisor Michelle Robbins says for women between the ages of 50 and 74, mammography prevalence was 83 percent for women with no health-related social needs, but just 66 percent among women with three or more health-related social needs. According to the CDC breast cancer causes more than 40,000 deaths among women in the U.S. each year. Breast cancer death rates have been decreasing, but the report noted this has not been equitable across all groups. Black women and women with low incomes are more likely to die from breast cancer.
