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High-Risk Blacks Less Likely to Get Colonoscopies Says Lead Researcher Dr. Harvey J. Murff

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By Steven Reinberg
EmpowHer's HealthDay Reporter

TUESDAY, March 25 (HealthDay News) -- Even when there is a family history of colon cancer, blacks are much less likely to get colonoscopies than their white counterparts are, a new study finds.


     
     
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Study: Non-Polyp Colon Lesions Hard to Detect

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By Serena Gordon
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TUESDAY, March 4 (HealthDay News) -- While the majority of colon cancers were thought to develop from polyps, a new study challenges that assumption and points out that so-called non-polypoid (flat or depressed) lesions in the colon are also likely to turn into cancer.