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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2007 99(4):270-271; doi:10.1093/jnci/djk090
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NEWS

Screening Program Serves Fraction of Those Eligible

Joel B. Finkelstein

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The 109th Congress adjourned without passing legislation updating the federal program for breast and cervical cancer screening last year, a program that provided access to mammography and Pap smears for hundreds of thousands of low-income women.

Since its inception in 1991, the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program, which is run through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has screened approximately 2.5 million women. However, under current funding levels, the program can provide screening to only one of five eligible women. In some states, there is only enough money to screen one in 20, according to the American Cancer . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Screening Lacking in Some States

More Money Needed, Less Sought

On the Horizon


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