US Counties With More African-American Patients May Have Fewer Colorectal Cancer Specialists

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Each percentage point increase in the African American population in a county appears to be associated with a decrease in the number of specialists within that county who diagnose and treat colorectal cancer, according to a report in the June issue of Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. In contrast, counties with a higher percentage of Asian Americans appear to have more colorectal cancer specialists.

 

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