Less Mammography in my future

[Trek420]

These stats stress the extreme importance of early detection:

Stage I:100%

Stage IIA: 92%

Stage IIB:81%

Stage IIIA:67%

Stage IIIB:54%

Stage IV:20%

That can depend on who you are, if you have access to health care. From http://www.sistersnetworkinc.org/news.html

"An estimated 19,540 new cases of breast cancer are expected to occur among African American women in 2009

The overall incidence rate of breast cancer is 10% lower in African American women than white women.

African American women have a five year survival rate of 77% after diagnosis as compared to 90% for white women."

I don't know the statistics for other communities.

Access to health care, making it available & affordable, promoting a culture of wellness saves lives (not to politicize the board).

If I was uninsured and a clinic offers free exams if I fear that if something is found I could not get care or worse would never be insurable in the future would I go?