Moving from theory to practice: A call to action on cancer disparities

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Kelvin A Moses. Cancer. 2019.

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. 2019 Oct 15;125(20):3504-3505.

doi: 10.1002/cncr.32419. Epub 2019 Jul 29.

¹ Department of Urology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee.

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Keywords: cancer screening; colorectal cancer; health disparity; health literacy; race.

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