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Racial Disparities in the Incidence, Disease Stage, and Outcomes of Colon and Rectal Cancer

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  1. Department of Surgery, University of Arizona Medical Center, Tucson, AZ, USA

    Agnes Ewongwo, Rosemarie Turk, Shoujit Banerjee, Omar Rizvi, Sierra Thompson, Elishia Thompson & Valentine Nfonsam

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Contributions

Study design and conception: AE, RT, VN.

Data acquisition: SB, OR, VN.

Statistical analysis: SB, OR.

Manuscript writing: AE, RT, VN.

Critical revision: AE, RT, VN, SB, OR, ST, ET.

Final approval: AE, RT, VN, SB, OR, ST, ET.

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Correspondence to Valentine Nfonsam.

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Ewongwo, A., Turk, R., Banerjee, S. et al. Racial Disparities in the Incidence, Disease Stage, and Outcomes of Colon and Rectal Cancer. J Gastrointest Surg 26, 669–670 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11605-021-05154-3

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