Which state has the highest reported breast cancer death rate?
Elisabeth Hasselbeck of The View asserted it was Utah, but I can't find that anywhere. I'm wondering if that's because she is looking at more recent data or something, since most of what I find is from 2005. She thinks this is due to Utah insurance companies not paying for mammograms for women under 50.
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I wouldn’t normally do this, but I can’t stand Elisabeth Hasselbeck and she is often wrong. The state with the highest mortality rate for breast cancer is Alaska at 27.4 deaths per 100,000. Utah ranks number 10 at 25.2 deaths per 100,000. The lowest is Hawaii at 18.9 per 100,000. Interestingly, the rate of death due to breast cancer is falling in every state in the union. This information includes deaths through 2006 and was just updated on 10/29/09. Elisabeth Hasselbeck does not have access to better information. I report cancer for a living and without cancer registrars this information would not be available. The National Cancer Institute is the agency responsible for this information and it is the agency each state reports to. I have included the link where I ran the report, but I’m not sure if it will work.
http://statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov/cg…Source(s):
I am a cancer registrar.
