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Colorectal cancer screening in the American Indian/Alaska Native population: Progress and at least one new challenge
Author(s) -
Lynch Patrick M.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/cncr.28848
Subject(s) - medicine , colorectal cancer , cancer , population , colorectal cancer screening , native american , gerontology , demography , environmental health , ethnology , colonoscopy , history , sociology
A new report in this issue describes improvements in colorectal cancer screening among American Indians and Alaska Natives but with rates that still lag far behind those of whites and African Americans. The Affordable Care Act has provisions specifically targeting the American Indian/Alaska Native population that may or may not be positive disrupting factors in screening trends, with modality‐specific and overall colorectal cancer screening patterns serving as interesting benchmarks against which to measure the impact of the Affordable Care Act over the next 10 or more years.