Eliminating racial disparities in colorectal cancer in the real world: it took a village.

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common cancer in the United States, with more than 102,000 new patients diagnosed per year.1 It is, however, one of the few cancers that is highly preventable through the use of routine screening,2 which can also prevent death resulting from CRC.3,4 CRC is also one cancer that continues to demonstrate widening incidence and survival disparities between whites and African Americans.1,5 Although the reasons for these disparities are multifactorial, advanced stage at diagnosis may explain up to 50% of the survival disparity.6