Gastric Cancer Among Asian Americans
Gastric cancer is the third leading cause of cancer mortality worldwide. It remains the eighth most commonly diagnosed cancer among Asian American men and women in the United States (USA) with considerable heterogeneity in incidence rates across Asian Ame
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ncer Epidemiology Among Asian Americans
Cancer Epidemiology Among Asian Americans
Anna H. Wu • Daniel O. Stram Editors
Cancer Epidemiology Among Asian Americans
Editors Anna H. Wu Department of Preventive Medicine Keck School of Medicine of USC University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA, USA
Daniel O. Stram Department of Preventive Medicine Keck School of Medicine of USC University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA, USA
ISBN 978-3-319-41116-3 ISBN 978-3-319-41118-7 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-41118-7
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Preface
There are profound differences between countries, ethnic groups, and races in risks of virtually all common cancers; variations in cancer rates by population may reflect the influence of genetic, environmental, or behavioral risk factors and such variations have long motivated speculation about the causes of cancer. Our knowledge about whether the causes of the observed differences in cancer risk are modifiable is greatly enhanced by consideration of migration studies. When rates of a particular disease change rapidly among migrants, then this is supporting evidence that risk of that disease may be at least partly environmentally or behaviorally driven, rather than solely due to differences in the genetic background and therefore not amenable to intervention. This is especially true when risks in migrants approach those seen in the host country. The most rapidly developing countries in the world today are in Asia, and Asians constitute the fastest growing immigrant populations in the USA. Asian Americans represent a heterogeneous population that includes Asian Indians, Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Kampuchean (Cambodian), Korean, Vietnamese, and other So
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