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State Cancer Profiles

Notes:
Created by statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov on 04/25/2024 4:39 pm.
* Data has been suppressed to ensure confidentiality and stability of rate estimates. Counts are suppressed if fewer than 16 records were reported in a specific area-sex-race category.
Data not available for this combination of data selections.
2 2022 BRFSS Survey Data is the source for this data collected by the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Data for the US is a median and not a percent.

BRFSS Prevalence estimates presented here may vary from other published estimates due to differences in the methodology used to generate estimates.

Data for United States does not include Puerto Rico.
Screening and Risk Factors Report by State
(Directly Estimated 2022 BRFSS Data)

FOBT in last year and/or flex sig in last 5 years and FOBT in last 3 years and/or colonoscopy in last 10 years
All Races (includes Hispanic), Both Sexes, Ages 50-75

Sorted by Percent
State Percent 2
(95% Confidence Interval)		 Number of Respondents with Screening or Risk Factor
United States 71.9 N/A
Puerto Rico 59.7 (57.1, 62.3) 1,519
New Mexico 63.9 (61.1, 66.7) 1,460
Wyoming 64.1 (61.7, 66.6) 1,310
Nevada 66.0 (62.3, 69.7) 982
Oklahoma 66.2 (63.9, 68.5) 1,596
California 66.3 (64.0, 68.6) 2,678
Arizona 66.7 (64.4, 69.0) 3,093
Alaska 67.1 (64.5, 69.8) 1,827
Texas 67.2 (64.9, 69.6) 3,765
Arkansas 68.5 (66.1, 70.8) 1,670
Idaho 68.8 (66.7, 70.9) 1,818
Mississippi 68.8 (65.9, 71.7) 1,223
Nebraska 69.1 (67.1, 71.2) 2,392
Tennessee 70.1 (67.5, 72.8) 1,630
Kentucky 70.4 (67.3, 73.4) 1,311
South Dakota 70.6 (65.8, 75.4) 2,561
Illinois 70.8 (68.1, 73.6) 1,075
New Jersey 70.8 (68.4, 73.2) 2,387
Missouri 71.1 (68.9, 73.2) 2,266
Montana 71.2 (69.2, 73.1) 2,437
Kansas 71.3 (69.5, 73.1) 3,612
Pennsylvania 71.4 (68.1, 74.6) 1,490
Georgia 71.6 (69.4, 73.8) 2,955
North Dakota 71.6 (69.2, 74.0) 1,381
Florida 71.7 (69.2, 74.3) 4,501
West Virginia 71.7 (69.6, 73.8) 1,846
Colorado 71.9 (70.1, 73.8) 2,724
Ohio 72.0 (70.4, 73.5) 5,509
Oregon 72.0 (69.6, 74.4) 1,782
Alabama 73.1 (70.4, 75.8) 1,687
Hawaii 73.3 (71.1, 75.5) 2,581
Iowa 73.7 (72.0, 75.5) 2,943
Utah 73.7 (71.8, 75.6) 2,667
New York 74.0 (72.4, 75.6) 5,659
Washington 74.4 (73.3, 75.5) 8,882
Delaware 74.5 (71.8, 77.3) 1,400
Indiana 74.5 (72.9, 76.0) 3,420
Vermont 75.0 (73.1, 77.0) 3,425
Louisiana 75.1 (72.9, 77.3) 1,895
Virginia 75.4 (73.6, 77.2) 3,638
North Carolina 75.5 (72.9, 78.1) 1,401
Minnesota 75.8 (74.4, 77.2) 5,811
New Hampshire 75.8 (73.8, 77.8) 2,682
Maryland 75.9 (74.3, 77.5) 5,623
Wisconsin 76.3 (74.7, 77.8) 4,085
South Carolina 76.4 (74.7, 78.0) 3,629
Michigan 76.6 (75.0, 78.1) 3,638
District of Columbia 76.8 (73.5, 80.1) 934
Massachusetts 77.0 (75.2, 78.8) 3,487
Maine 77.1 (75.5, 78.7) 4,300
Rhode Island 78.9 (76.7, 81.1) 2,260
Connecticut 79.5 (77.5, 81.4) 3,482