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Article: Colon cancer. (Health Hot Line).(Brief Article)
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- Ebony
- Article date:
- July 1, 2002
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COLORECTAL cancer is the second most common cause of cancer death in the United States, largely, experts say, because of our unwillingness to talk about the disease.
Although most commonly found in people age 50 or over, it's important to note that men and women are at equal risk for contracting the disease. And for African-Americans, the risks are even greater. Blacks accounted for approximately 14,000 diagnosed cases last year, and 6,800 African-Americans died from colon cancer in 2001, according to statistics from the American Cancer Society.
"African-Americans have the highest rate of colorectal cancer of all ethnic groups," says Dr. Durado Brooks, ...