Table 2.
2021 USPSTF criteria screening eligibility (ie, screening sensitivity) and reasons for ineligibility among all and ineligible lung cancer casesa
| Source | Overall | Race and ethnicity |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| African American | Japanese American | Latino | Native Hawaiian | White | ||
| All lung cancer cases, No. | 5900 | 1660 | 1328 | 800 | 533 | 1579 |
| Age <50 y | 18 (0.3) | 5 (0.3) | 2 (0.2) | 1 (0.1) | 7 (1.3) | 3 (0.2) |
| Age >80 y | 1454 (24.6) | 393 (23.7) | 413 (31.1) | 216 (27.0) | 71 (13.3) | 361 (22.9) |
| Pack-years <20 | 1865 (31.6) | 715 (43.1) | 356 (26.8) | 330 (41.2) | 138 (25.9) | 326 (20.6) |
| Quit-years >15 | 1998 (33.9) | 457 (27.5) | 560 (42.2) | 294 (36.8) | 120 (22.5) | 567 (35.9) |
| Eligible lung cancer cases, No. (%a) | 2552 (43.3) | 638 (38.4) | 531 (40.0) | 298 (37.3) | 302 (56.7) | 783 (49.6) |
| Ineligible lung cancer cases, No. (%a) | 3348 (56.7) | 1022 (61.6) | 797 (60.0) | 502 (62.7) | 231 (43.3) | 796 (50.4) |
| Age <50 y | 18 (0.5) | 5 (0.5) | 2 (0.3) | 1 (0.2) | 7 (3.0) | 3 (0.4) |
| Age >80 y | 1454 (43.4) | 393 (38.5) | 413 (51.8) | 216 (43.0) | 71 (30.7) | 361 (45.4) |
| Pack-years <20 | 1865 (55.7) | 715 (70.0) | 356 (44.7) | 330 (65.7) | 138 (59.7) | 326 (41.0) |
| Quit-years >15 | 1998 (59.7) | 457 (44.7) | 560 (70.3) | 294 (58.6) | 120 (51.9) | 567 (71.2) |
a
Percentages correspond to the number of eligible or ineligible lung cancer cases divided by all lung cancer cases overall and within each race and ethnicity stratum. USPSTF = United States Preventive Services Task Force.