Minorities are much less likely to undergo colonoscopies than white people in the United States, a new study by researchers at the University of California at Davis Cancer found. But Hawaii defied the trend. In Hawaii, Asian-Pacific Islanders had the highest screening rates. More than half of the subjects studied — people on Medicare between the ages of 69-79 — of that ethnicity had been screened in Hawaii. The figure for whites in Hawaii was 38 percent. It turned out that screening rates for Asians in Hawaii were the highest of any group in any area of the country.

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