Colorectal carcinoma screening attitudes and practices among primary care physicians in counties at extremes of either high or low cancer case‐fatality

To the authors' knowledge, physician attitudes and reported practices regarding colorectal carcinoma screening have not been studied in areas of highest risk for cancer death.

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