| The Cancer Detection Section's stunning photo exhibit "Every Woman Counts", a photodocumentary of uninsured women in California's breast and cervical cancer screening program, captures the images and stories of everyday California women dealing with the issue of breast cancer. |
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Photography has long been recognized as an effective tool
for social change. In May 2002, the Cancer Detection Section embarked on a
photodocumentary project to collect women's images, voices, and stories
across the State. The 60 subjects were ethnically, linguistically and
geographically diverse women served by California's breast and cervical
cancer screening program, Cancer Detection Programs: Every Woman Counts.
Approximately half of the women were cancer survivors; the other half were
women who understood the importance of yearly breast cancer screening. Over
9,000 images were captured of the women in a variety of setting important to
them: church, fishing, parks, with grandchildren, by schools, and at work.
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Their images and stories have been used to humanize and
embody the impact of cancer screening efforts on real people and their
families in California. "Every Woman Counts" photo exhibit is a unique
health marketing tool designed to inspire underserved women to seek
life-saving screening tests. And it highlights the issues of the uninsured
to policymakers in a compelling and highly personal manner.
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Uninsured women are the least likely to receive breast
and cervical cancer screening services, making them most at risk of
developing late stage cancer. According to California Behavioral Risk
Factor Survey data, 33.5% of uninsured California women 40 and older have
never had a mammogram. Motivating uninsured women to seek breast cancer
screening services, even if free, continues to be challenging given myriad
cultural and competing social and health issues and barriers.
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Our mission is to reach out to all women across the
state, and projects like this are an important reminder that we reach out
to individual women who are important in the lives of their families, who
have unrealized dreams for their future, and who have a unique story to
tell. They are huge inspiration for those who work to reduce the burden of
cancer in California's underserved communities.
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Por favor, revise el Aviso de las normas de privacidad en español de la Sección de detección del cáncer.
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