Missing Millions · 2026 estimate

Delaware is missing 37,400 lung cancer screenings.

About 1 in 11 adults ages 50 to 80 in Delaware qualifies for lung cancer screening and hasn't been screened. Find your county below.

49,400adults qualify for screening under USPSTF 2021 criteria (estimate)
24.3%were screened, 5th of 51 (American Lung Association, 2025); 18.2% nationally
1,856low-dose CT screening scans billed to Medicare fee-for-service by Delaware providers in 2024

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates 2025; CDC PLACES 2025; USPSTF 2021; American Lung Association, State of Lung Cancer 2025; CMS Medicare Physician and Other Practitioners 2024 (CPT 71271). Modeled estimates; see methodology below.

The gap, county by county

Shade shows how many adults ages 50 to 80 are missing screening. Select a county.

New Castle County

17,100

missing lung cancer screenings (estimate)

  • Qualify for screening22,500
  • Adults 50 to 80 missing screening1 in 12
  • Medicare low-dose CT scans, 2024405
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Every Delaware county, ranked

Ranked by estimated missing screenings. Select a column to sort.
1New Castle County17,10022,5001 in 12405
2Sussex County13,70018,1001 in 10646
3Kent County6,6008,8001 in 10805

Methodology

How we estimate the gap

A modeled estimate from public data only. It is not a count of patients and contains no patient information.

missing = adults 50 to 80 × county smoking rate × national eligibility factor × (1 − state screening rate)

  • Adults 50 to 80: U.S. Census Bureau, Population Estimates, Vintage 2025
  • Smoking: CDC PLACES 2025 release (Kentucky and Pennsylvania: 2024 release)
  • Eligibility: USPSTF 2021 criteria, scaled to about 14.5 million eligible adults nationally
  • Screening rates: American Lung Association, State of Lung Cancer 2025
  • Who is missing: Census population estimates (age) and American Community Survey 2020 to 2024 (language)
  • Screening activity: CMS Medicare fee-for-service claims for low-dose CT (CPT 71271), 2024, by provider location

Estimates under 50 are shown as "fewer than 50"; others are rounded. Full methodology

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