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2006 BRFSS Survey Results: Bladen/Brunswick/Columbus/Pender Counties

Prostate Cancer Screening

A Prostate-Specific Antigen test, also called a PSA test, is a blood test used to check men for prostate cancer.
Have you ever had a PSA test?*

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  Total
Respond.^
Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 516 348 65.0 59.3-70.2 168 35.0 29.8-40.7
-Blad./Bruns./Colum./Pender 120 86 70.7 60.8-78.9 34 29.3 21.1-39.2
RACE
White 98 71 72.1 61.4-80.8 27 27.9 19.2-38.6
Other 22 15 66.0 41.9-83.9 7 34.0 16.1-58.1
AGE
18-44 7 2 34.7 9.0-74.1 5 65.3 25.9-91.0
45+ 113 84 73.5 63.4-81.6 29 26.5 18.4-36.6
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 54 33 60.7 46.0-73.7 21 39.3 26.3-54.0
Some College + 66 53 78.9 65.3-88.2 13 21.1 11.8-34.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 58 39 64.4 49.8-76.7 19 35.6 23.3-50.2
$50,000+ 46 36 78.3 61.6-89.1 10 21.7 10.9-38.4

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* This question was asked only of male respondents who reported being age 40 and older.

^Use caution in interpreting percentages with a numerator of less than 20. N = numerator, % = Percentage, C.I.(95%) = Confidence Interval (at 95 percent probability level).
Percentages are weighted to population characteristics and therefore cannot be calculated exactly from the numbers in this table.


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