What We Need to Know About Colorectal Cancer Among Young Adults
Growing up in rural North Carolina, where commercial chicken farms were a common sight, medical researcher Charles R. Rogers knew the basics about cancer and racial disparities. Black women, he knew, had to worry about breast cancer, while the concern for Black men was prostate cancer. Then, at a family reunion in 2009, he noticed…
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