Race and Colorectal Cancer Disparities: Health-Care Utilization vs Different Cancer Susceptibilities
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Race and colorectal cancer disparities: health-care utilization vs different cancer susceptibilities.
BACKGROUND It is unclear whether the disproportionately higher incidence and mortality from colorectal cancer among blacks compared with whites reflect differences in health-care utilization or colorectal cancer susceptibility. METHODS A total of 60, 572 non-Hispanic white and black participants in the ongoing Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian (PLCO) Cancer Screening Trial underwent tri...
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عنوان ژورنال: JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0027-8874,1460-2105
DOI: 10.1093/jnci/djq068