Skip to main content
. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2015 Feb 28;13(8):1487–1495. doi: 10.1016/j.cgh.2015.02.038

TABLE 2.

Colorectal cancer screening rates according to modality and race/ethnicity.

CRC screening modality White (N = 605,958) African American (N = 52,911) Latino (N = 86,990) Asian (N = 72,720) Other (N = 51,635) p-value
Colonoscopy 391075 (64.5%) 26166 (49.5%) 28920 (33.2%) 49545 (68.1%) 25894 (50.1%) < .001 *
Sigmoidoscopy only 15903 (2.6%) 1187 (2.2%) 2649 (3.0%) 1129 (1.6%) 781 (1.5%) .83 *
Fecal-based test only 33941 (5.6%) 7285 (13.8%) 6250 (7.2%) 2295 (3.2%) 4851 (9.4%) .12 *
Sigmoidoscopy and fecal-based test 11582 (1.9%) 384 (0.7%) 1805 (2.1%) 0 (0%) 2048 (4.0%) .29 *
Any screening test 452501 (74.7%) 35022 (66.2%) 39624 (45.6%) 52969 (72.8%) 33574 (65.0%) .002 *

Data are presented as n (%).

CRC, colorectal cancer.

*

Chi-squared test.

Performed within past 5 years.

Performed within past year.