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Community-based Educational Intervention for Lung Cancer Screening for Non-Hispanic Black Adults

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: BACKGROUNDLung cancer is the leading cause of cancer mortality in the United States, with an estimated 125,070 deaths in 2024 (1).Mortality has declined, partly because of early detection by lung cancer screening (LCS) and reduced smoking rates, but Black men experience higher lung cancer mortality than White men (58.3 vs. 38.9 per 100,000) (1).LCS with low-dose computed tomography reduces lung cancer mortality by 20% (2), but overall participation is low at 5.8% (3) and even lower among non-Hispanic Black (NHB) individuals at 1.7% (4).Factors contributing to this disparity include lack of awareness, perceived low cancer risk, fear, distrust of the healthcare system, avoidance of cancer screening, and concerns about cost and insurance coverage (5-7).Direct outreach to community members interested in cancer screening may effectively increase LCS use by providing LCS education, identifying decision factors, and distributing (

Source: ATS Scholar

DOI: 10.34197/ats-scholar.2025-0010br