Riverdale women snub screenings

A new report, “Breast Cancer Screening among New York City Women,” shows that throughout the five boroughs, mammography rates were lowest in the Kingsbridge and Riverdale sections of the Bronx, Southwest Brooklyn, North Queens and Northwest Queens, with more than one in three women reporting not being screened for breast cancer in the past two years.
Washington Heights and Inwood in Upper Manhattan; Highbridge, Morrisania, Hunts Point and Mott Haven in the Bronx; and Southeast Queens had the highest rates, with at least 80 percent of women getting timely mammograms.
Mammography rates across the boroughs were similar and ranged from 73 percent to 76 percent.
October is Breast Cancer Month. The findings are part of city Department of Health's Vital Signs report and are based on the Community Health Survey — a telephone survey of approximately 10,000 New York City adults who are 18 years or older.