NC ‘hotspot’ for colorectal cancer in Black men. Have you been screened?
Story Date: 9/20/2021

 

Source: Elizabeth Thompson, NORTH CAROLINA HEALTH NEWS, 9/7/21

Colorectal cancer, cancer that affects the colon and rectum, is personal for Charles Rogers.
Rogers recently went back home to rural North Carolina for a family cookout and found out one of his cousins was 17 years overdue for his colonoscopy. The Sanford native and assistant professor of family and preventive medicine at the University of Utah School of Medicine has devoted his research to inequalities in men’s health. “I gave him a little education about the importance of screening,” Rogers said.

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