Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER AT DALLAS

Amount

$155,568.00

Award Date

9/09/2009

Administering Agency

Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health

CDFA Number

93.701

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support

Description

By some estimates, 50% of the 56,000 US colo-rectal cancer (CRC) deaths per year in the US could be prevented by appropriate, risk-based CRC testing. Hispanics have lower incidence and mortality from CRC, but are typically diagnosed at later stages and h