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Interventions to Improve Care Related to Colorectal Cancer Among Racial and Ethnic Minorities: A Systematic Review

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Tailored patient education combined with patient navigation services, and physician training in communicating with patients of low health literacy, can modestly improve adherence to CRC screening.

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Risk of recurrence in patients with colon cancer stage II and III: A systematic review and meta-analysis of recent literature

TL;DR: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled studies and observational studies published after 1 January 2005 found that the presented five-year disease-free survival (DFS) for stage II and III colon cancer patients is likely an under-estimation of what is achieved at high-quality centers today.
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A Roadmap and Best Practices for Organizations to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care

TL;DR: A roadmap for reducing racial and ethnic disparities in care is presented and shows that promising interventions frequently are culturally tailored to meet patients’ needs, employ multidisciplinary teams of care providers, and target multiple leverage points along a patient’s pathway of care.
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Racial Disparity in Gastrointestinal Cancer Risk

TL;DR: Cognizance of disparities in gastrointestinal cancer risk, as well as approaches that apply precision medicine methods to populations with the increased risk, may reduce the observed disparities for digestive cancers.
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Health disparities in colorectal cancer among racial and ethnic minorities in the United States

TL;DR: Despite overall rates of CRC decreasing nationally and within certain racial and ethnic minorities in the US, there continue to be disparities in incidence and mortality when compared to non-Hispanic whites.
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Cancer statistics, 2010

TL;DR: The American Cancer Society as mentioned in this paper estimated the number of new cancer cases and deaths expected in the United States in the current year and compiles the most recent data regarding cancer incidence, mortality, and survival based on incidence data from the National Cancer Institute, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries and mortality data from National Center for Health Statistics.
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The feasibility of creating a checklist for the assessment of the methodological quality both of randomised and non-randomised studies of health care interventions.

TL;DR: It is shown that it is feasible to develop a checklist that can be used to assess the methodological quality not only of randomised controlled trials but also non-randomised studies and it is possible to produce a Checklist that provides a profile of the paper, alerting reviewers to its particular methodological strengths and weaknesses.
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Reducing Mortality from Colorectal Cancer by Screening for Fecal Occult Blood

TL;DR: Cutting mortality in the annually screened group was accompanied by improved survival in those with colorectal cancer and a shift to detection at an earlier stage of cancer.
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Participation in Colorectal Cancer Screening: A Review

TL;DR: Adherence to colorectal cancer screening with fecal occult blood testing (FOBT) and sigmoidoscopy was highest in relatives of CRC cases and in employer-sponsored programs offered to workers at increased risk of CRC.
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