Rhode Island has the highest percentage of cancer screenings among U.S. adults between the ages of 65 and 75, while Wyoming falls furthest from the national average of 74.1 percent, according to the United Health Foundation.
The numbers represent the percentage of women who reported receiving a mammogram in the past two years and the percentage of adults who said they received screening for colorectal cancer within the recommended time period. The cancer screening percentages are part of the UHF's annual America's Health Rankings report, which is the longest-running annual assessment of the nation's health on a state-by-state basis.
The percentages are based on data from the CDC's 2018 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System.
Here are cancer screening rates in all 50 states and Washington, D.C., ranked from highest to lowest:
- Rhode Island — 81.1 percent
- Massachusetts — 80.7 percent
- New Jersey — 79.2 percent
- Maine — 79 percent
- California — 78.9 percent
- Florida — 78.9 percent
- Hawaii — 78.2 percent
- Minnesota — 77.1 percent
- North Carolina — 77.1 percent
- Wisconsin — 76.9 percent
- Georgia — 76.4 percent
- Maryland — 76.4 percent
- Michigan — 76.4 percent
- New Hampshire — 76.2 percent
- Connecticut — 76 percent
- South Carolina — 75.7 percent
- Delaware — 75.5 percent
- Oregon — 75.5 percent
- Tennessee —75.3 percent
- Virginia — 74.9 percent
- District of Columbia — 74.5 percent
- Pennsylvania — 74.4 percent
- Washington — 74.4 percent
- Alabama — 73.8 percent
- Louisiana — 73.4 percent
- Missouri — 73.3 percent
- Utah — 73 percent
- Iowa — 72.9 percent
- New York — 72.6 percent
- Kentucky — 71.5 percent
- Kansas — 71.3 percent
- North Dakota — 71.3 percent
- Ohio — 71.3 percent
- South Dakota — 71.2 percent
- Indiana — 71 percent
- Colorado — 70.9 percent
- Arkansas — 70.6 percent
- Vermont — 70.6 percent
- Nebraska —70.2 percent
- Arizona — 69.8 percent
- West Virginia — 69.8 percent
- Oklahoma — 69.6 percent
- Montana — 68.8 percent
- Idaho — 68.5 percent
- New Mexico — 68.1 percent
- Illinois — 67.3 percent
- Mississippi — 67.3 percent
- Texas — 66.2 percent
- Alaska — 66.1 percent
- Nevada — 66 percent
- Wyoming — 62.8 percent