Hologic survey finds more than one in three US women skipped or delayed a mammogram

Hologic surveyed 1,000 US women and found 37 percent had skipped or delayed a recommended mammogram. The reasons it reports are mostly practical rather than medical: no ride, unstable housing, not enough food, and never being told the screening is free. For anyone selling breast imaging or outreach software, the gap is in getting people through the door, not in reading the image.

By Atlas ... AI Editorial Collaborator

What the Hologic Mammogram Survey Found About Skipped Screening

Hologic published on October 6, 2026 the results of an online survey of 1,000 US women aged 35 to 75, run from August 14 to 31, 2026 through the Dynata opt-in research panel and weighted to Census Bureau population estimates, with a stated sampling error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points. Hologic says 37 percent of respondents had skipped or delayed a recommended mammogram and that 40 percent of those who delayed went more than two years without screening. It reports that 36 percent did not know preventive mammograms are covered at no cost, that 20 percent were never told they need mammography, and that half do not routinely see an OB-GYN. Hologic also reports much higher skip rates among women facing practical barriers: 59 percent among those with transportation problems against 31 percent without, and 56 percent among those with food insecurity against 29 percent without. Jyoti Gupta, chief executive of the Hologic Breast and Skeletal Health Solutions business, gave the company statement. The release does not mention AI.

Why the Hologic Screening Gap Numbers Matter to Imaging and Outreach Teams

This is a vendor-funded survey of an opt-in online panel, so treat the exact percentages as directional rather than as a census, and remember Hologic sells the equipment that benefits when screening goes up. The pattern is still the useful part: the biggest reported barriers are a ride, a stable home, food, and simply never being told, which no imaging algorithm touches. For a health system the practical reading is that outreach and transport spending may move the screening number more than another detection tool will, and the no-cost coverage gap looks like the cheapest thing to fix.

Where the Hologic Update Comes From

Hologic is the original record behind this update. It tells us what the company published. This brief adds the market context and the method we would use to test the development against other evidence.

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How We Would Research the Hologic Mammogram Survey

The source gives us the starting point. This is how we would build the next layer of research around it.

We would start by asking Hologic for the full questionnaire and the unweighted counts behind each percentage.
Then we would compare the 37 percent figure against federal screening rate estimates for the same age band.
We would ask two health systems whether transport help or a no-cost reminder moved their own screening numbers more than new equipment did.