"Experts have long noted that black Americans have much higher colorectal cancer death rates than whites. Five years after diagnosis, nearly 50 percent of black patients are dead, compared with 35 percent of white patients, according to background information in the study by a team from the University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston."

", researchers reviewed findings from 10 previous studies that examined links between colorectal cancer survival rates and race/ethnicity."

"After adjusting for socioeconomic, cancer screening and cancer treatment inequalities, the researchers
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