The survey, led by Nikita Shah, MD, an oncologist for the Breast Cancer Center at the Orlando Health Cancer institute, sampled 1,107 women in September. It found:
- Twenty-two percent of women ages 35 to 44 have never gotten a mammogram and have no plans of getting one.
- One in 5 women ages 18 to 34 plan to begin mammograms at age 40.
- Black women are more likely to be diagnosed at a younger age and are 40 percent more likely to die of breast cancer than white women.
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