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Cancer Risk Factors and Screening Behaviors
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  • Current Smoking

    A person 18 years of age or older must have reported smoking at least 100 cigarettes in his/her life, and now smokes cigarettes some days or every day at the time of interview.

  • Ever Smoking

    A person 18 years of age or older must have reported smoking at least 100 cigarettes in his/her lifetime by the time of interview.

  • Former Smoking

    A person 18 years of age or older must have reported smoking at least 100 cigarettes in his/her life, and now doesn’t smoke cigarettes at all at the time of interview.

  • Mammography

    A woman 40 years of age or older must have reported having at least one mammography in her life. Furthermore, she should have had the most recent one within the last two years by the time of interview.

  • Pap Smear

    A woman 18 years of age or older must have reported having at least one Pap Smear test in her life. Furthermore, she should have had the most recent one within the last three years by the time of interview.

  • FOBT

    A person 50 years of age or older must have reported having at least one blood stool or fecal occult blood test (FOBT) using a home test kit in his/her life. Furthermore, he/she should have had the most recent one within the last two years by the time of interview.

  • Colonoscopy

    A person aged 50-75 must have reported having at least one colonoscopy within the past 10 years at the time of interview.

  • Endoscopy

    A person 50 years of age or older must have reported having at least one colorectal endoscopy (proctoscopy, sigmoidoscopy, or colonoscopy) in his/her life by the time of interview.

  • CRC Test Ever

    A person 50 years of age or older must have reported having at least one colorectal cancer test (home-based FOBT in the past two years or ever had colorectal endoscopy) by the time of interview.

  • Guidance Sufficient CRC

    A person aged 50-75 must have reported having had home-based FOBT within the past year, or sigmoidoscopy within the past 5 years and home-based FOBT within the past 3 years, or colonoscopy within the past 10 years at the time of interview.

  • Prostate-specific antigen (PSA)

    For PSA test within the past year, a man aged 55-69 must have reported having at least one PSA test in his life. Furthermore, he should have had the most recent one within the past year by the time of interview.

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