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OSUCCC program aims to reduce inequities in colon cancer rates by mailing at-home screening kits to Black patients

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An outreach program at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center—Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC–James) is mailing free at-home colon cancer screening tests to Black primary care patients who have not yet had their routine colonoscopy. 

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