What Black Women Need To Know About Mammograms

posted by elev8.com

Mammograms can be scary  if you don’t understand the process.
When? Where? How often? What about Black women, who are not only more susceptible to developing breast cancer at earlier ages, but are also at a higher risk of having malignant tumors misdiagnosed…or diagnosed much later?


Especially if you’re a woman, you’ve probably been told to prepare for your first screening mammogram around the time of your 40th birthday and then to have one every year (in some cases, every other year) after that. Note: that’s just for routine mammograms; breast lumps always require a mammogram and/or other tests to start diagnosing whether it might be breast cancer.