Another Strange Study That Once Again Places Us In the “Less Likely” Category
on April 7th, 2010 at 10:33 am
“In this new study, researchers analyzed data from 60,572 black and white participants in the ongoing Prostate, Lung, Colorectal and Ovarian Cancer Screening (PLCO) trial who underwent flexible sigmoidoscopy screening between November 1993 and July 2001. That initial screening found suspicious lesions in 25.5 percent of blacks and 23.9 percent of whites.
There were 13,743 white and 767 black men and women referred to their own physician for a follow-up colonoscopy. The follow-up visits weren’t paid for by the PLCO trial. Of the participants referred, 9,944 (72.4 percent) of whites and 480 (62.6 percent) of blacks saw a physician and had a colonoscopy.”
The headline of this article?
Blacks Less Likely to Get Follow-Up Colon Screening
When you ask 12,976 more White men than Black men, “less likely” is already built in.
