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We previously reported the results of a 10-year retrospective review of all patients from a 700-bed quaternary care facility [Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC)] and a 150-bed primary point of access city hospital [Metropolitan Nashville General Hospital (MNGH)]. There was significant overlap of surgical and medical staffing between the two institutions. Six-hundred-sixty-eight patients who were [...]

INTRODUCTION
Colon cancer is the second most common cause of cancer mortality in the United States, accounting for over 50,000 deaths in 2000 and representing 10% of all cancer deaths annually. Work by Hen-schke and colleagues in the early 1970s heightened our awareness of disparities in cancer mortality between black and white Americans. Since that time, [...]