Race and Colorectal Cancer Disparities: Health-Care Utilization vs Different Cancer Susceptibilities

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Authors

Adeyinka O. Laiyemo · National Institutes of Health

Chyke A. Doubeni · University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School

Paul F. Pinsky · Howard University

V. Paul Doria‐Rose · National Institutes of Health

Robert S. Bresalier · Howard University

Lois Lamerato · Henry Ford Health System

E. David Crawford

Abstract

We observed a lower follow-up for screen-detected abnormalities among blacks when compared with whites but little difference in the yield of colorectal neoplasia. Health-care utilization may be playing more of a role in colorectal cancer racial disparity than biology.

Topics & Keywords

Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection Global Cancer Incidence and Screening Genetic factors in colorectal cancer

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Good health and well-being

Publication Details

Published in: JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Volume 102, Issue 8, pp. 538-546

DOI: 10.1093/jnci/djq068

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