JUNE 8, 2022
Hello, everyone!
Asian Americans are suffering from cancer, and racism is worsening it.
According to a new research article in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, structural racism and its biases, exacerbated by aggregated data, are furthering cancer disparities among Asian Americans.
The AAPI community, as an umbrella group, have lower cancer rates, but much of that data also hides the ethnic divides in cancer diagnoses. In many cases, Asian Americans are denied diagnosis, despite cancer being their leading cause of death.
Asians also experience the most “unusual” cancers, with Korean Americans harboring a high concentration of stomach cancer diagnoses, Vietnamese American women with the highest cervical cancer rates and Chinese Americans having disproportionate rates of nasopharyngeal and lung cancers. Community health and wellbeing are changing, and we need accurate research to represent the concerns of our communities.
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