Report: Eastern Iowa county is seeing elevated cancer rates

One of Iowa’s most populous counties is seeing higher cancer rates than both state and national averages.

A report says black men in Linn County are twice as likely to be diagnosed with prostate cancer as white men, while rural residents have a higher cancer burden than urbanites.

Linn County Director of Public Health Pramod Dwivedi says there are many unknown risk factors that may impact which populations have higher cancer rates than others…

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