ArticleAmerican journal of preventive medicine2025
National Survey of Lung Cancer Screening Eligibility in United States Veterans.
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- Veteran Satisfaction With Lung Cancer Screening Care: A Cross-Sectional Evaluation.Medical care · 2026Article
- Estimating Lung Cancer Screening Eligibility in the Veterans Health Administration Using Patient-Reported Smoking Histories.Journal of general internal medicine · 2026Article
- Disparities in Lung Cancer Health Outcomes and Access to Lung Cancer Screening Between Rural and Urban Areas in the U.S.Cancers · 2026Review
- Validation of data in the Veteran health administration electronic medical record for identification of tobacco use.Annals of epidemiology · 2025Article
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introductionLung cancer screening is underutilized, especially in rural areas where lung cancer mortality is high. Approximately 11.2% of the U.S. population over age 50 years meet the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) 2021 lung cancer screening eligibility criteria; the proportion of eligible Veterans is unknown. This study evaluated the proportion of Veterans who are USPSTF-eligible and tested the hypothesis that more USPSTF 2021-eligible Veterans reside in rural versus nonrural areas.
methodsInvestigators cross-sectionally surveyed a national sample of Veterans aged 50 years and older January-November 2022. Oversampling ensured inclusion of minority groups and accounted for geographic variation in tobacco use. Analyses in 2023-2024 evaluated the proportion of USPSTF-eligible Veterans by year (2013 and 2021) and tested USPSTF-2021 eligibility by rural status (rural versus nonrural) using chi square tests. Weighting accounted for survey nonresponse and applied results to the whole Veteran population in a sensitivity analysis.
resultsOf 2,000 surveyed, 754 responded (37.7% response rate); most respondents were White (74.4%), male (92.6%), and resided in nonrural areas (66.0%). Proportions meeting USPSTF criteria were 35.5% (95% CI=31.6%, 39.6%) in 2021 and 27.8% (95% CI=24.3%, 31.7%) in 2013. The proportion of USPSTF 2021-eligible rural Veterans (41.2%; 95% CI=34.8%, 48.0%) was higher compared with nonrural (32.5%; 95% CI=27.7%, 37.7%), p=0.037. A sensitivity analysis found the proportion of Veterans USPSTF 2021 eligible in the whole population was 33.0%.
conclusionsThe proportion of Veterans USPSTF2021 eligible was nearly 3 times higher than the general U.S. population (11.2%), and a greater proportion of eligible Veterans resided in rural compared with nonrural areas. These findings are critical for policies aimed at fully implementing lung cancer screening at scale.
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