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. 2020 Apr 1;126(7):1586-1587.
doi: 10.1002/cncr.32650. Epub 2019 Dec 10.

Reply to Appropriate considerations of "rural" in National Cancer Data Base analyses

John Virostko  1 , Anna Capasso  2 , Thomas E Yankeelov  3 , Boone Goodgame  4   5
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Reply to Appropriate considerations of "rural" in National Cancer Data Base analyses

John Virostko et al. Cancer. .

Abstract

Urban and rural populations exhibit differences in the proportion of colorectal cancer cases diagnosed prior to age 50, with higher rates of young diagnosis in urban counties. This disparity persists using two different population cutoffs between urban and rural.

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