Age, period, cohort, and immigration effects on cancer incidence
Cancer registry data have traditionally been limited for examining the impact of immigration factors on cancer patterns. In addition, intercensal population estimates for detailed subgroups characterized by race/ethnicity and immigration status are not readily available. With these data limitations, we currently do not have a good understanding of cancer incidence and mortality trends in specific racial/ethnic and immigrant groups. Hispanics and Asians are the two largest growing racial/ethnic demographic segments of the population. With the vast heterogeneity among specific Hispanic and Asian subgroups and immigrant cohorts with respect to health behaviors and cancer risk factors, developing the data sources to enable analyses of cancer incidence and mortality patterns by age, period, and immigration cohort could significantly contribute towards cancer control efforts in these groups. The overall aim of this study is obtain numerator (cancer cases) and denominator (population estimates) data for Hispanics and detailed Asian subgroups in California in order to characterize the age, period, cohort, and immigration effects on the incidence of cancer.
NCCC Investigator: Scarlett L. Gomez, Ph.D.
Collaborator: Myles Cockburn, Ph.D. (University of Southern California)
Funding Source: Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program
Publications:
Keegan THM, Gomez SL, Clarke CA, Chan JK, Glaser SL. Recent trends in breast cancer incidence among six Asian groups in the Greater Bay Area of Northern California, International Journal of Cancer 2007;120:1324-9.
Chang ET, Keegan TH, Gomez SL, Le GM, Clarke CA, So SK, Glaser SL. The burden of liver cancer in Asians and Pacific Islanders n the Greater San Francisco Bay Area, 1990 through 2004. Cancer 2007;109:2100-8.
Gomez SL, Le GM, Miller T, Undurraga DM, Shema SJ, Stroup A, Clarke CA, Keegan THM, O'Malley CD, Unger Hu K, West DW, Glaser SL. Cancer Incidence among Asians in the Greater Bay Area, 1990-2002. Fremont, CA: Northern California Cancer Center, 2005.
Gomez SL, Le GM, Clarke CA, Glaser SL, France A, West D. Cancer incidence patterns in Koreans in the U.S. and in Kangwha, South Korea. Cancer Causes Control 2003; 14:167-74.
Le GM, Gomez SL, Clarke CA, Glaser SL, West DW. Reply to correspondence re: Le et al., Cancer Incidence patterns among Vietnamese in the US and Ha Noi, Vietnam. International Journal of Cancer 2003; 107:232.
Le GM, Gomez SL, Clarke CA, Glaser SL, West DW. Cancer incidence patterns among Vietnamese in the United States and Ha Noi, Vietnam. International Journal of Cancer 2002 Dec 1; 102(4):412-7.
Prehn A, Lin S, Clarke C, Packel L, Lum R, Lui S, Harper C, Lee M, Glaser S, West D (eds). Cancer Incidence in Chinese, Japanese and Filipinos in the United States and Asia, 1988-1992. Union City, CA: Northern California Cancer Center, 1999. |
