Cutting copays may increase women's cancer screening

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Cutting copays may increase women's cancer screening

By Andrew M. Seaman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - More women may get screened for breast and cervical cancers if they don't have to pay for the tests, according to a new study from Japan. A year after the Japanese government started picking up the tab for Pap smears and mammograms for certain groups of women, the percentage of eligible women who got screened nearly doubled compared to a few years earlier when most women had to pay for screenings. "This is consistent with prior research. ...

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