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CDC study finds Alaska Natives have highest colon cancer rate in the world

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The 2018 colorectal cancer rate for Alaska Natives was 61.9 per 100,000 people, according to a study published in the International Journal of Circumpolar Health. The rates vary within Alaska, with some regions far worse. Rates in parts of rural Alaska are up to 2.5 times as high as the state average, and patients in those rural areas appear to be getting diagnosed so late.

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Wrangell Sentinel

CDC study finds Alaska Natives have highest colon cancer rate in the world

Alaska Natives continued to have the world’s highest rates of colorectal cancer as of 2018, and case rates failed to decline significantly for the two decades leading up to that year, according to a newly published study. The study, by experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, compared colorectal cancer rates among Alaska Natives...

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