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Dinish before a diagnosis of breast cancer fast growing with a great additional concern. She needed treatment, but had no means to pay for it. She was unemployed and uninsured. “It was a terrible mess,” said Dinish, 41, of Detroit.

friends and a social worker referred to the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute State in Detroit.

Last year, the institute helped 700 women, including Dinish pay for breast cancer screening and treatment with money from the annual race in Detroit will run for the life and raised. L money, women whose cancer is detected through routine screening at the Institute is limited.

For a year, Karmanos paid the COBRA health insurance Dinish, which deals with the chemotherapy and radiation therapy.

A former supervisor for an automotive supplier company hopes Dinish more programs available to women outside of work, like his

“The breast cancer is an epidemic, women need help. “Dinish said the spread of breast cancer to 16 lymph nodes under the arm. She told the women to find a way to get a mammogram.

While there is no single program that helps all women, more Michigan mammography facilities offer discounts or prices to buy. A guide to annual mammography produces available since 2001 to help the Detroit Free Press and the American Cancer Society’s Great Lakes Division also provides support for the procurement of women for mammography
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dozens of Michigan mammography facilities offer discounts for uninsured or underinsured women or maintaining the price of women for their annual test.

“We can not allow women not only because they can not afford to go,” said Dr. Randy Hicks, co-owner and Vice President Regional Council of Medical Imaging.

The Great Flint and northern Oakland County provides radiology practice, women, the uninsured or underinsured conventional film-screen mammography, digital mammography and 7 are.

regional imaging centers have begun to discounted fares this year because of the recession Hicks said.Elsewhere centers are now only increase costs, or her, despite the expensive installation of new digital mammography equipment, as part of a annual survey of 313 Michigan mammography facilities by the Detroit Free Press and the American Cancer Society, Great Lakes Division conducted.

The survey also provides information on waiting times for appointments, policy on the acceptance of Medicare patients, the wheelchair access and other issues. (For the full study go to freep.com / data.)

Statewide, the average cost of a movie screen or so-called analog mammography is 1, and 5 for a numerical test, the survey found.

The price for a film-screen mammography is less than the median of Wayne State, Oakland and Macomb counties and vary considerably from center to center. Some are as small as a test for digital film-screen examinations may be greater than 0, the survey found

It is therefore important for women who are not fully insured or not insured to to find jobs. that discounts or more affordable, “said Vicki Rakowski, executive vice president of the Division of Cancer Society Great Lakes.

Rakowski contested the results in a recent Journal of the American Medical Association editorial, that the value of mammography questioned, because studies have not found a sufficient decrease in deaths from breast cancer.

mammography remains the best way to find breast cancer, Rakowski said. “At the moment we have no answers to be taken at different decisions, and the decision is yes, a mammogram. “

Ann Capitan, 65, of St. Clair Shores keeps at the cancer society guidelines and got a mammogram every year, including one Tuesday at Henry Ford Hospital in Clinton Township Macomb.

“I am among those people who worry am my health,” she said. But she also had a fear of nine years if they, or screening, first mammogram found something suspicious. A biopsy no trace of cancer, but “once you go through it, you are faithful to get one” took, “she said said.Wanda Francisco, mammography supervisor at Henry Ford Macomb said the number of women annual mammograms is declining slightly, as the in many other centers, because “losing so many people their insurance.” The center is working to give the women is uninsured or underinsured to low-cost mammograms, but they, like many workers mammography, refused to be flooded, the details for fear.

This year declined 27% of mammography facilities in Michigan pricing information for the Canadian Cancer Society / Free Press has to offer investigation that level ever. The number of establishments in which no information was up 8% 2005

Most institutions refuse to provide cost information systems increases very big hospital, including St. John Health, Warren. Beaumont Hospitals, Royal Oak and Oakwood Healthcare, Dearborn.

Rebner Murray, chief of breast imaging at the Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, said the hospital system, refused to deliver this year, because the charges are not representative of actual costs paid women, depending on their insurance.

He urged the recording an average load of sense, because what the insurer pays for a mammogram depends on the discount, it can present a health center negotiate. big insurers like Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, the 7 consists of 10 people insured in the country, can often lower rates because they can send many cases to a health center.

However, many centers lose money on mammography because insurers reimburse fully tested. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, the largest insurer in the country, pays 0.31 for a film mammography and 5.72 for a digital.

In the past, women without insurance has paid the total cost for a test, and that’s what changes. But women should not be assured a compensation claim, to be sure they are not paying the highest price, “said Rakowski.

Rebner said Beaumont is now offering digital mammography for women and 5 are not insured plans to lower prices by first mammogram January. “We feel women need to have access to breast imaging at a lower price,” he said.

Paulette Valliere, Director of the Michigan Breast and Cervical Cancer Control Program, which provides free mammograms for uninsured women said that despite hopes of the problems of the state budget, the program to serve 30,000 women this year.

“It is a drop in the ocean, she says.