Lung Cancer Screening among Adults Older than Medicare's Upper Age Eligibility Criteria.

ABSTRACT: Implications on the loss of lung cancer screening (LCS) coverage among Medicare recipients aged 77+ years have not been explored. We use a 2022 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System dataset to examine LCS patterns of screen-eligible adults across three age groups: 65 to 70, 71 to 77, and 78 to 79 years. In descriptive analyses, LCS-eligible respondents are compared by screening status across each age category. In regression analyses, we explore various sociodemographic and health-related factors that may help explain age-related differences between these groups. Less than a third of our sample reported LCS in the last year (26.3%). Among eligible respondents, adults aged 78 to 79 years reported the highest LCS rates (32.0%), followed by adults aged 71 to 77 years (28.3%) and 65 to 70

SUBMITTER: Hernandez M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12478563 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature