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Gender discrimination is linked to mammogram nonadherence in
affluent women Less than half of all women receive regular
mammograms, even though these images are effective in detecting
breast cancer early. One group that does not adhere to
mammography guidelines is women who earn more than $50,000 a
year and experienced gender discrimination at some point in
their lives, a new study finds. Amy B. Dailey, Ph.D., M.P.H., of
the University of Florida, and colleagues conducted telephone
interviews with 1,451 women who received a baseline mammogram in
Connecticut between October