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Mailed tests, follow-up calls increase colorectal cancer screening among African Americans

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Mailed tests, follow-up calls increase colorectal cancer screening among African Americans Healio Mailed stool blood tests and follow-up phone calls are examples of effective strategies that increased colorectal cancer screening among African Americans, according to findings of a systematic review. Even though colorectal cancer screening and treatment have improved, mortality rates associated with the disease are 47 percent higher in African-American men and 34 percent higher in African-American women compared with non-Hispanic whites, according to Siddhartha Roy, MPH, DrPH, assistant professor in the department of family and community medicine at Penn State University. READ MORE

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