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Tag Archives: breast cancer
Understanding the Rise in Asian American Breast Cancer
I get a newsletter from the ASPIRE cancer study, and their last message included a link to this Newsweek article about the rise in Asian American breast cancer Not too long ago, doctors were once skeptical that Asian American women … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Local, San Francisco Bay Area
Tagged ASPIRE study, breast cancer, CRANE, Stanford Center for Asian Health Research, UCSF
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Bay Area Asian American Immigrant Women more likely to get Breast Cancer
We have written how some doctors would not believe that Asian American women could get breast cancer, but in the past few years, I know a number of Asian American women who were diagnosed with the disease. Previous studies of … Continue reading
Breast Cancer Risk Calculator Updated for Asian American Women
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Tool (BCRAT) has been updated to better deal with Asian American women. BCRAT is used to estimate the risk for women of developing invasive breast cancer and was originally based on … Continue reading
The Model Minority Myth applied to Asian-American Health
When I was 34, my doctor refused to biopsy a lump I found in my right breast. He told me I was too young to get breast cancer and had no family history. Besides, he said, “Asian women don’t get … Continue reading
Posted in Discrimination, Health
Tagged breast cancer, Diabetes, diet, exercise, Susan Matsuko Shinagawa
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