Who has the highest colorectal cancer rates in California? Who has the lowest?
African Americans have higher rates of colorectal cancer than any other racial/ethnic group in California. On average, over the five-year period 2003-2007 the African-American colorectal cancer incidence rate was 57.5 (per 100,000), about 25 percent higher than the rates for non-Hispanic whites at 45.2. While rates among Asian/Pacific Islanders overall are about 13 percent lower than non-Hispanic whites, there is much variability among the major Asian subgroups (Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, Vietnamese, and South Asian). Japanese have the highest rate – 52.5 per 100,000, while rates among South Asians are the lowest of any group in the state (21.3 per 100,000).
