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Women with symptoms of serious mental illness are significantly less likely to receive three routine cancerscreenings - Pap tests, mammograms and clinical breast exams - than women in the general population, despite being at elevated risk for medical comorbidities and early death, a new study indicates.
Women who reported symptoms of serious psychological distress - such as feelings of hopelessness anddepression - during the past 30 days were 41 percent less likely to have received Pap tests during the preceding two-year period, University of Illinois researcher Xiaoling Xiang found.
These women also were 38 percent and 35 percent less likely to have received mammograms and clinical breast exams, respectively, during that same period of time.