For early-onset colorectal cancer, researchers have found that American blacks, Native Americans, and Americans of Asian and Pacific Islander descent are 1.5 to two times as likely as older people of the same ethnicity to develop the disease.
Their analysis, using the U.S. Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results program database, also showed that median survival was nearly five years shorter for nonwhite patients with CRC (94 months) than white patients (153 months).
“Nonwhite races