2024 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 1

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 1 439 326 71.9 66.5-76.8 113 28.1 23.2-33.5
GENDER
Male 184 135 69.5 60.8-77.1 49 30.5 22.9-39.2
Female 255 191 73.9 66.8-79.9 64 26.1 20.1-33.2
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 390 300 74.4 68.9-79.3 90 25.6 20.7-31.1
Non-Hispanic Black 18 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 26 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
45-64 185 108 61.7 53.6-69.3 77 38.3 30.7-46.4
65+ 247 215 83.8 76.2-89.3 32 16.2 10.7-23.8
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 119 80 67.6 56.9-76.8 39 32.4 23.2-43.1
Some Post-H.S. 130 99 73.3 63.5-81.3 31 26.7 18.7-36.5
College Graduate 188 146 75.5 67.7-81.9 42 24.5 18.1-32.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 151 109 70.7 60.8-79.0 42 29.3 21.0-39.2
$50,000+ 166 125 70.9 62.0-78.5 41 29.1 21.5-38.0
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 122 92 74.9 64.1-83.3 30 25.1 16.7-35.9

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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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