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Colonoscopy up in NYC
06-06-2007 · EurekAlert!Four years ago, only 43 percent of New Yorkers 50 and older had been screened for colon cancer during the previous decade. Health officials will announce today that 60 percent of New Yorkers 50 and older had a colonoscopy in the past ten years, an increase of some 350,000 tests compared with 2003.
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