Breast cancer is a leading cause of death for Amish women under 60, but it can be hard for them to access preventative care. That's where this mobile mammogram clinic steps in. WOSUnews.
Snow is falling in the parking lot outside, and horses are tied up to poles in the frozen ground. Today the mobile mammography unit is parked at the Mennonite Christian Assembly Church in Fredericksburg, Ohio, within a buggy ride’s distance from some of the largest Amish settlements in the state.
"We try to find screening locations that are in the most remote sections of the state, that are serving more than likely a more conservative group of Amish that may not have access or availability into the local hospital systems," she says. "What really surprised us was the higher death rate of breast cancer among Amish women in these two regions," she says."What was disturbing to us is that the leading cause of death of Amish women under 60 was breast cancer."
Miller is Amish, and a 30-year survivor of breast cancer. Now she's a community health worker with the mobile clinic. In nearby Holmes County, a community health assessment found that about 60% of non-Amish residents had gotten mammograms, compared to only 20% of Amish women.If they receive a positive test result"There are some people that think that is meant to be, and that is God’s plan for their life," Miller says."And there are those that refuse treatment, whatever, and they don’t seek treatments, that this is what God meant for them in their life. And whenever their life ends, so be it.
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