Part of the issue is access to screening. We've heard from several witnesses that many indigenous folks, for example, don't go to get screening or health care due to colonization and ongoing systemic racism within the health care system. Did your study take those historical factors into account when it made the observation that indigenous and Black women have lower rates of cancer? Was that part of your research, yes or no?
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