For reasons unknown, colorectal cancer strikes blacks disproportionately. In Massachusetts in 2006, the death rate for blacks was 33 percent higher than that for whites and almost two and a half times the rate for Asians and Hispanics.
Figures are age-adjusted to the 2000 U.S. standard population, per 100,000
Source: Massachusetts Deaths 2006, Bureau of Health Information, Statistics,
Research and Evaluation, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, April 2008
