MILWAUKEE – In seven inner city ZIP codes – 53205, 53206, 53208, 53210, 53213, 53216 and 53233 – Black women die at a much higher rate from breast cancer than any other ethnic group. The prevent deaths, Black women are taking a “Sister Pact” to encourage others to get screened for breast cancer through regular mammograms.
A new campaign unveiled Wednesday by the Wisconsin Breast Cancer Task Force.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports
Lisa Taylor-Goodwin sees herself as sort of a town crier, ringing a bell to alert people to danger.
She hopes other African-American women will listen to her as if their lives depend on it because in a way, they do.
Taylor-Goodwin began getting mammograms regularly after her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer 25 years ago. And six years ago, at the age of 38, Taylor-Goodwin learned she, too, had breast cancer.
Growing up in Milwaukee’s 53206 ZIP code and owning a home in the 53216 ZIP code, Taylor-Goodwin was smack dab in the middle of an alarming map that shows women living in seven ZIP codes are much more likely to die from breast cancer.
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