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Title: Cancer among Asian American Population in the United States: Incidence and Survival Disparities
Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Year: 2016
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Abstract: Cancer incidence disparities exist among specific Asian American populations. However, the existing reports exclude data from large metropoles like Chicago, Houston, and New York. Moreover, incidence rates by subgroup have been underestimated due to the exclusion of Asians with unknown subgroup. Cancer incidence data for 2009 to 2011 for eight states accounting for 68% of the Asian American population were analyzed. Race for cases with unknown subgroup was imputed using stratified proportion models by sex, age, cancer site, and geographic regions. Age-standardized incidence rates were calculated for 17 cancer sites for the six largest Asian subgroups. Our analysis comprised 90,709 Asian and 1,327,727 non-Hispanic white cancer cases. Asian Americans had significantly lower overall cancer incidence rates than non-Hispanic whites (336.5 per 100,000 and 541.9 for men, 299.6 and 449.3 for women, respectively). Among specific Asian subgroups, Filipino men (377.4) and Japanese women (342.7) had the highest overall incidence rates while South Asian men (297.7) and Korean women (275.9) had the lowest. In comparison to non-Hispanic whites and other Asian subgroups, significantly higher risks were . . .
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Authors: Jin, Hongbin
Institution: University of Nevada, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Department: Environmental and Occupational Health
Advisor: Paulo Pinheiro
Degree: Doctor of Philosophy – Public Health
Publisher Location: Las Vegas, NV
Pages: 123
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Health, Other, Population Health and Health Systems, Race and Ethnicity
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