Financial, cultural barriers prevent many Hispanic women from getting mammograms in Texas

“Because one out of every four Texans does not have health insurance ”” the worst rate in the nation ”” hundreds of thousands of women in the state do not get regular mammograms. In fact, federal data show that Texas ranked 42nd in the nation last year in terms of the percentage of women receiving regular mammograms.

The most recent data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta show that last year, 38 percent of Hispanic women in Texas did not have regular mammograms. By contrast, that number was 21 percent for African American women and 27 percent for white women.”

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