D.C.-Area Program for Latinas Breaks Barriers to Cancer Screening. Virginia

“Removing economic concerns, having a bilingual staff and being culturally sensitive can remove some of the barriers to cancer screening for Latinas in the United States, according to a study of a program that provided cervical and breast cancer screening in the Washington, D.C., area.

The program was developed to serve the Latina population in the district’s Virginia suburbs and has provided cancer screening one Saturday each month to a population that would otherwise have significant barriers to obtaining it. More than half of the Latina women enrolled in the program returned for annual screening or treatment.

In its first six years, 928 screening visits took place, with 53 percent of these by women who had returned at least once for an annual screening. The study found that 91 percent of these women preferred speaking in Spanish with their health care providers and that only 5 percent said they had health insurance.”

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