Blacks Have Greater Risk For Larger, Difficult-To-Detect Colon Polyps Than Whites, Study Finds

Blacks are at higher risk than whites for having large precancerous polyps in their colons, according to a study published in this week’s Journal of the American Medical Association, Reuters reports. Previous research has shown that blacks have higher prevalence of and mortality from colon cancer than whites (Stern, Reuters, 9/23).

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Filed under: Colorectal Cancer on September 30th, 2008