2024 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 6

Chronic Health Conditions

Has a doctor, nurse, or other health professional EVER told you that you had any of the following?

(Ever told) you had any melanoma or any other types of cancer?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,312 390 7.5 6.6- 8.4 3,922 92.5 91.6-93.4
Medicaid Region 6 482 52 7.8 5.7-10.6 430 92.2 89.4-94.3
GENDER
Male 216 28 10.0 6.6-14.8 188 90.0 85.2-93.4
Female 266 24 5.7 3.7- 8.9 242 94.3 91.1-96.3
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 316 44 9.9 7.1-13.7 272 90.1 86.3-92.9
Non-Hispanic Black 102 *** *** *** 95 94.2 87.7-97.4
Other 61 *** *** *** 60 97.4 83.4-99.6
AGE
18-44 171 *** *** *** 168 98.6 95.3-99.6
45-64 160 13 6.8 3.7-12.1 147 93.2 87.9-96.3
65+ 146 35 20.8 14.4-29.2 111 79.2 70.8-85.6
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 164 13 7.9 4.5-13.5 151 92.1 86.5-95.5
Some Post-H.S. 137 13 6.0 3.2-10.9 124 94.0 89.1-96.8
College Graduate 178 25 9.8 6.4-14.8 153 90.2 85.2-93.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 149 18 8.8 5.2-14.5 131 91.2 85.5-94.8
$50,000+ 208 23 8.1 5.0-12.7 185 91.9 87.3-95.0
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 118 11 6.7 3.3-13.1 107 93.3 86.9-96.7

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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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