Research
Nativity and US Residence Duration and Colorectal Cancer Screening Nonadherence
Among surveyed adults aged 45-49, 23.2% said they had never discussed colorectal screening tests with a health professional.
A cross-sectional study in JAMA Network Open explored nonadherence to screening recommendations among US-born and non-US-born adults, including how duration of US residence related to screening. The report did not provide the study’s results.
In a separate study, researchers analyzed 2024 survey responses from 3,626 screening-eligible adults aged 45-75 with no history of colon cancer. Among respondents aged 45-49, 50.3% said a health professional had discussed different screening tests with them, compared with 72.5% of those aged 65-75. The findings were presented at the AACR Conference on The Science of Cancer Health Disparities, and the results are to be published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.
