Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Cancer Screening Budget Cuts May Prove Deadly for Some Women

Breast Cancer

Lanajh Jones, 2, waits patiently as her grandmother Rozeann Gorman, of Minneapolis, registers for a free screening at North Point Health & Wellness Center's See, Test & Treat?, a program that provides free breast and cervical cancer screening and same day diagnosis and care, for patients 40 and older in Minneapolis, Minn. African American women have a 24% higher mortality rate for breast cancer then non-Hispanic white women in Minnesota.