Community-Based Screening Events to Increase Lung Cancer Screening in an Urban AI/AN Clinic

Elijah Johnson; An Garagiola; Antony Stately; Abbie Begnaud

doi:10.1353/hpu.2025.a967331

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Community-Based Screening Events to Increase Lung Cancer Screening in an Urban AI/AN Clinic

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Community-Based Screening Events to Increase Lung Cancer Screening in an Urban AI/AN Clinic

Elijah Johnson, An Garagiola, Antony Stately and Abbie Begnaud

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

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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.

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Title: Subtitle: Community-Based Screening Events to Increase Lung Cancer Screening in an Urban AI/AN Clinic
Creators: Elijah Johnson - University of Minnesota
An Garagiola - Native Amer Community Clin, Minneapolis, MN USA
Antony Stately - Native Amer Community Clin, Minneapolis, MN USA
Abbie 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
NLM abbreviation: J Health Care Poor Underserved
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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