Items Tagged ‘Alaska Natives’
June 15, 2012
Can A Colon Cancer Test Level The Playing Field For Alaska Natives?
Alaska Natives are twice as likely to get colon cancer and die from it as the white population in the United States. When Mayo Clinic doctor David Ahlquist took a trip to Bethel, Alaska, in the mid-1990s, that startling statistic caught his attention. “Here they had one of the world’s highest rates of colon cancer […]
Tags: Alaska Natives, colon cancer, Dr. David Ahlquist, NPR