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Early colorectal ca screening urged for African Americans, Hispanics.(Clinical Rounds)
ORLANDO, FLA. -- Colorectal cancer occurs at a high enough rate in African Americans and Hispanics under 50 years of age to warrant screening starting at age 40, according to Jaydutt Vadgama, Ph.D., of the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, Los Angeles, and colleagues.
In a retrospective study, they found that of 148 patients who had been diagnosed with colorectal cancer at the Martin Luther King/Drew Medical Center during 1996-2004, 38 (26%) of them were younger than 50 years of age.
At diagnosis, the 38 patients had a median age of 42 years. During 1993-1997, 46% of the 11,615 cases in African Americans and Hispanics in California were in patients younger than 50 ...
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