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The figure of aged Americans getting
diagnostic tests rose to 61 percentage in 2006, from 54 percent
four old age earlier, U.S. wellness functionaries reported.

People age 50 and aged were less likely to acquire screened if
they were poor, less educated, achromatic or lacking wellness insurance,
according to the and Prevention
in Atlanta.

Colorectal tumours are the second-leading cause of cancer
deaths in the U.S. About 145,000 new lawsuits are diagnosed each
year and approximately 54,000 people decease from the disease. To
catch the malignant neoplastic disease early when it is more than treatable, the CDC
recommends yearly faecal blood screenings, clysters every 5 years,
or colonoscopies once a decade.

''Although this addition is encouraging, disparities persist
in colorectal malignant neoplastic disease diagnostic test use,'' the CDC said in its report. Factors contributing to some people not getting screened include
''lack of recommendation from a physician, deficiency of health
insurance and deficiency of a usual beginning of wellness care.''

Colon tumours caught early tin be treated by drugs including
Erbitux, made by New York-based Inc., and
Avastin, from Inc. of South San Francisco.

Whites got recommended diagnostic tests 63 percentage of the clip in 2006,
compared with 59 percentage for blacknesses and 56 percentage for Asians,
the CDC said. Fewer than one-half of Hispanics were screened.

Education also affected testing, with 69 percentage of people
with college grades getting screenings, compared with 57 percent
among those with lone high school diplomas.

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