2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 6

Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening

A mammogram is an x-ray of each breast to look for breast cancer. Have you ever had a mammogram?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 2,430 1,839 67.7 65.2-70.1 591 32.3 29.9-34.8
Medicaid Region 6 455 364 70.0 63.9-75.5 91 30.0 24.5-36.1
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 286 228 69.2 61.6-76.0 58 30.8 24.0-38.4
Non-Hispanic Black 131 113 78.0 66.6-86.2 18 22.0 13.8-33.4
Other 38 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 128 46 33.5 24.6-43.7 82 66.5 56.3-75.4
45-64 163 160 98.0 92.2-99.5 *** *** ***
65+ 158 154 96.7 90.8-98.8 *** *** ***
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 167 135 67.1 56.1-76.6 32 32.9 23.4-43.9
Some Post-H.S. 147 112 69.7 59.8-78.2 35 30.3 21.8-40.2
College Graduate 140 117 77.1 66.3-85.2 23 22.9 14.8-33.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 237 188 67.6 58.8-75.3 49 32.4 24.7-41.2
$50,000+ 131 108 74.5 63.4-83.1 23 25.5 16.9-36.6
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 87 *** *** *** *** *** ***

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2018 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2018 Annual Results Technical Notes for more details.

^Use caution in interpreting cell sizes less than 50, % = 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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