Abstract:Background: The Capital Breast Center (CBCC), in the Washington, DC metro area, is a screening facility established to serve minority and underserved women in an effort to address mammography underutilization. Due to widespread outreach and public service information dissemination, women are having mammograms at increasing rates. Current data from the DC Cancer Consortium show that overall, self-reported rates of cancer screening are higher than those among adults nationwide (86.5% reporting having had a mammo… Show more
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