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His career is devoted to closing the Asian American health care gap. Now, he has the cancer that’s afflicting Asians
Now he hopes that telling the story of his own cancer can draw attention to the paucity of specialized medical research and treatments for Asians and Asian Americans. About 10% to 20% of lung ...
O.C. Asian American groups form partnership to boost cancer screenings
Five Asian American organizations in Orange County have partnered together with CalOptima to better screen for cancer within ...
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Lung cancer mystery: Why are healthy, non-smoking, Asian women contracting the disease?
A Bay Area-based study finds that 80% of Asian American women with lung cancer never smoked and researchers are trying to figure out why. Five years ago, Vicky Ni got a call from her doctor.
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Health Information Disparities Among Asian American People With Cancer
Providing quality interpreter services is a logistical challenge, especially for Asian languages and dialects with fewer speakers. Cultural perceptions of Western medicine and patient-centered care ...
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Breast cancer: “what it’s like to have breast cancer as a young South Asian woman”
Activist Kreena Dhiman, supporter of The Estée Lauder Companies UK & Ireland’s Breast Cancer Campaign, talks to Stylist about breast health in the South Asian community, representation and how ...
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Study: Cancer genomic profiles differ in Japan, U.S. patients
The research team expressed hope that these findings, released on Feb. 29, will help drug companies take the genetic characteristics of Japanese and other Asian cancer patients into account when d ...
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Health Information Disparities Among Asian American People With Cancer
L.C.D ad E.C.D. are funded in part through the National Cancer Institute (P30 CA008748). E.C.D. is funded in part through the Prostate Cancer Foundation Young Investigator Award. The following ...