Cancer survival among Asians and Pacific Islanders
Information is limited for Asians and Pacific Islanders (API), particularly for disaggregated subgroups, regarding survival after cancer diagnosis, even as these populations are increasing in the US. To date, studies of racial/ethnic differences in cancer survival have focused on black and white populations. Ongoing research at the NCCC is characterizing survival patterns for specific API subgroups using the population-based SEER and the linked SEER-Medicare databases. We are particularly interested in assessing the extent to which factors such as age, neighborhood-level poverty and education, screening, treatment, and comorbid conditions influence differences in survival across and among Asian subgroups.
NCCC Principal Investigator: Scarlett L. Gomez, Ph.D.
Collaborator: William Satariano, Ph.D. (UC Berkeley)
Funding Source: Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program
Publications:
Robbins A, Koppie TM, Gomez SL, Parikh-Patel A, Mills PK. Differences in prognostic factors and survival among white and Asian men with prostate cancer, California, 1995-2004. Cancer in press.
Zhang MM, Cheung MK, Osann K, Lee MM, Gomez SL, Whittemore AS, Husain A, Teng NN, Chan JK, The improved survival of Asians with corpus cancer compared to whites - an analysis of underlying factors. Obstetrics and Gynecology 2006;107:329-335.
Gomez SL, Clarke CA, Glaser SL. Cancer survival in U.S. racial/ethnic groups: heterogeneity among Asian ethnic subgroups. Letter to the Editor. Archives Int Med 2003; 163(5):631-632.
Lin SS, Clarke CA, Prehn AW, Glaser SL, West DW, O'Malley CO. Survival differences among U.S. Asian subpopulations after breast, prostate, cervical, and colorectal cancers, 1988-94. Cancer 2002; 94:1175-1182. |
