2024 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 2

Colorectal Cancer Screening (Age 45+)

Colonoscopy and sigmoidoscopy are exams to check for colon cancer.
Have you ever had either of these exams?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 2,627 1,953 74.6 72.5-76.6 674 25.4 23.4-27.5
Medicaid Region 2 389 281 71.0 65.2-76.1 108 29.0 23.9-34.8
GENDER
Male 181 124 68.8 60.3-76.1 57 31.2 23.9-39.7
Female 208 157 73.3 65.2-80.1 51 26.7 19.9-34.8
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 289 229 76.0 69.2-81.6 60 24.0 18.4-30.8
Non-Hispanic Black 52 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 47 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
45-64 198 123 64.0 55.9-71.3 75 36.0 28.7-44.1
65+ 181 154 81.8 73.4-88.0 27 18.2 12.0-26.6
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 117 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Some Post-H.S. 111 79 69.6 58.5-78.9 32 30.4 21.1-41.5
College Graduate 159 139 88.2 81.7-92.6 20 11.8 7.4-18.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 129 78 58.9 48.3-68.6 51 41.1 31.4-51.7
$50,000+ 158 133 83.2 75.1-89.0 25 16.8 11.0-24.9
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 102 *** *** *** *** *** ***

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2024 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2024 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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