Research shows that Black women and women of lower socioeconomic status are more likely to die from breast cancer. A mammogram is an X-ray picture of the breast that doctors use to look for early ...

izusek/Getty Women should start getting regular mammograms at age 40 — a decade ... white women have the highest rates of breast cancer, Black women are “approximately 40% more likely to ...

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A mammogram is an x-ray of the breast. Screening mammograms are typically ordered yearly for women 40 years of age or older, unless other risk factors exist. The doctor uses screening mammograms to ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that middle-aged and older women get a mammogram—an X-ray of the breast—to screen for breast cancer every one or two years.