2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 3

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 3 886 73 7.2 5.6- 9.3 813 92.8 90.7-94.4
GENDER
Male 416 34 7.2 4.9-10.4 382 92.8 89.6-95.1
Female 470 39 7.3 5.1-10.4 431 92.7 89.6-94.9
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 499 59 9.9 7.4-13.1 440 90.1 86.9-92.6
Non-Hispanic Black 179 *** *** *** 170 95.5 91.1-97.8
Other 199 *** *** *** 195 97.9 94.2-99.3
AGE
18-44 367 *** *** *** 360 98.3 96.3-99.3
45-64 285 27 9.5 6.3-14.0 258 90.5 86.0-93.7
65+ 212 39 18.1 12.6-25.2 173 81.9 74.8-87.4
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 255 21 8.0 5.0-12.7 234 92.0 87.3-95.0
Some Post-H.S. 223 19 6.6 4.1-10.5 204 93.4 89.5-95.9
College Graduate 402 33 7.2 4.9-10.3 369 92.8 89.7-95.1
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 245 23 8.5 5.2-13.5 222 91.5 86.5-94.8
$50,000+ 429 31 6.6 4.4- 9.6 398 93.4 90.4-95.6
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 202 18 7.4 4.5-11.9 184 92.6 88.1-95.5

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2023 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2023 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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