Brownsville residents are calling on city officials and health organizations to establish breast cancer resources in an area that has little screening and treatment options.

During a breast cancer awareness walk in October, residents, breast cancer survivors, and family members who lost loved ones from the disease said outer borough residents should not have to travel far to find a doctor, a clinic or treatment center as they have to do now.

Scholanda Miller, a community school director from the nonprofit Partnership with Children , one of the organizers of the walk, said there are no radiology clinics in Brownsville. Residents have to travel to neighboring communities to get annual mammograms, ultrasounds or sonograms.

"Most of the local doctors' offices have no x-ray machines," M

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