New report says racial gap growing in colorectal cancer

Monday, December 15, 2008 - 11:35 in Health & Medicine

A new report from the American Cancer Society says despite unprecedented progress in reducing incidence and death rates from colorectal cancer, the gap between blacks and whites continues to grow. The latest data show death rates are about 45 percent higher in African American men and women than in whites. The data come from Colorectal Cancer Facts and Figures 2008-2010, the second edition of a report first issued in 2005...

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