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. 2019 Jul 11;112(3):238–246. doi: 10.1093/jnci/djz137

Table 3.

Cancer screening process metrics by age group

Screening metric Panel A: breast cancer screening Age group, y
Panel B: cervical cancer screening Age group, y
Panel C: colorectal cancer screening Age group, y
40–74 40–49 50–64 65–74 21–64 21–29 30–49 50–64 50–75 50–64 65–75
N 305 568 91 864 151 425 62 279 3 160 128 689 945 1 458 783 1 011 400 2 363 922 1 647 781 716 141
Percent tested 44.6 38.0 46.1 50.8 25.7 27.3 27.1 22.6 40.3 39.5 42.3
Percent screened 41.9 35.2 43.5 47.7 25.0 26.3 26.4 22.2 37.7 37.4 38.67
Percent testing up-to-date 63.5 53.7 66.0 71.1 84.6 72.1 89.5 84.4 77.5 73.7 85.9
Percent screening abnormal 10.7 14.6 9.8 8.2 4.4 6.2 4.7 2.4 4.5 4.1 5.4
Percent with diagnostic evaluation* 96.8 97.0 96.7 96.8 76.22 69.4 80.7 76.2 76.3 77.6 74.2
Cancers per 1000 screens* 5.66 3.73 5.41 8.37 0.17 0.05 0.19 0.22 1.46 1.29 1.84
Cancers per 1000 persons in the population* 3.18 2.07 3.12 4.96 0.07 0.02 0.09 0.08 0.77 0.60 1.19
*

In the year 2013 for panel A. In the year 2012 for panels B and C.