Access to Health Care

“Effective advocates possess both patience and persistence”

by Dawn Anderson “I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to politicians.” – Charles de Gaulle At the WBCC, we have always believed that it’s critical to educate policymakers about issues related to breast cancer and our priorities. How can they possibly know everything they need …

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That’s when I learned that WBCC was ahead of me

by Linda Hansen I found the lump that was Stage IV metastatic breast cancer just five weeks after a “clean” mammogram.  And I was mad.  How could metastatic breast cancer be missed on a mammogram? I spent that first year going through surgeries, chemotherapy and radiation, but in the back of my mind, the question …

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A Review of Changes to the WI Well Woman Program and Possible Negative Outcomes

by Dawn Anderson BACKGROUND The Wisconsin Well Woman Program (WWWP) is part of a national program established by Congress known as the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program (NBCCEDP). Since 1994, it has made mammograms and pap screenings available at no cost to women living in Wisconsin, ages 45-64 with household incomes below …

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