Colorectal cancer screening in African Americans: practice patterns in the United States. Are we doing enough?

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Published in Gastroenterol Rep (Oxf) on April 11, 2016

Authors

Abhijeet Waghray1, Alok Jain2, Nisheet Waghray2

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Medicine, MetroHealth Medical Center/Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA awaghray@metrohealth.org.
2: Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, MetroHealth Medical Center/Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA.

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