{"id":3260,"date":"2016-09-30T09:30:30","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T12:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=3260"},"modified":"2016-09-30T09:30:30","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T12:30:30","slug":"quickstats-colorectal-cancer-screening-among-adults-aged-50-75-years-by-raceethnicity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2016\/09\/30\/3260\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Colorectal Cancer Screening Among Adults Aged 50\u201375 Years, by Race\/Ethnicity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/65\/wr\/mm6538a6.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/65\/wr\/figures\/m6538qsf.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"441\" height=\"274\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During 2000\u20132015, among adults aged 50\u201375 years, the use of colorectal cancer tests or procedures increased for all racial\/ ethnic groups included in the analysis.<\/p>\n<p>Colorectal screening percentages more than doubled for non-Hispanic black, Hispanic, and non-Hispanic Asian adults during that period.<\/p>\n<p>Despite these increases, in 2015, the prevalence of colorectal cancer screening was higher among non-Hispanic white (65.6%) adults than among non-Hispanic black (60.3%), non-Hispanic Asian (52.1%), and Hispanic (47.4%) adults.<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/65\/wr\/mm6538a6.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/65\/wr\/mm6538a6.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During 2000\u20132015, among adults aged 50\u201375 years, the use of colorectal cancer tests or procedures increased for all racial\/ ethnic groups included in the analysis. Colorectal screening percentages more than doubled for non-Hispanic black, Hispanic, and non-Hispanic Asian adults during that period. Despite these increases, in 2015, the prevalence of colorectal cancer screening was higher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3260"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}