Journal article
Community-Based Screening Events to Increase Lung Cancer Screening in an Urban AI/AN Clinic
Journal of health care for the poor and underserved, Vol.36(3), pp.771-781
08/01/2025
DOI: 10.1353/hpu.2025.a967331
PMID: 40820774
Abstract
American Indians/Alaska Natives (AI/AN) in Minnesota have experiences with lung cancer that end in mortality at nearly twice the rate of White Minnesotans. Low dose computed tomography (LDCT) chest scans are potentially lifesaving screening tests which, when used annually, are expected to reduce deaths. However, these lung cancer screenings (LCS) are underutilized in the general population. Moreover, many AI/AN are expected to be eligible for LCS but screening uptake is likely even lower in AI/AN than the general population. We and others have reported barriers to LCS, but solutions to improve LCS rates are elusive. Here, we describe a novel approach to overcome patient-level barriers to LCS through community-based LCS events. We worked with a community clinic serving AI/AN and a large health care organization to overcome barriers to LCS through a same-day screening event based in the community and report on the feasibility of this approach.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Community-Based Screening Events to Increase Lung Cancer Screening in an Urban AI/AN Clinic
- Creators
- Elijah Johnson - University of MinnesotaAn Garagiola - Native Amer Community Clin, Minneapolis, MN USAAntony Stately - Native Amer Community Clin, Minneapolis, MN USAAbbie Begnaud - University of Minnesota
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of health care for the poor and underserved, Vol.36(3), pp.771-781
- DOI
- 10.1353/hpu.2025.a967331
- PMID
- 40820774
- ISSN
- 1049-2089
- eISSN
- 1548-6869
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins Univ Press
- Number of pages
- 12
- Grant note
- UL1TR002494 / National Institutes of Health's National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences University of Minnesota Masonic Cancer Center
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 08/01/2025
- Academic Unit
- Internal Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9985179801902771
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