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Article: Breast Cancer Rising Among Asian-American Women; Study Shows Japanese-American Women Are Hardest Hit.
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- June 10, 2002
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Byline: USC Medical Center
LOS ANGELES, June 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- Asian-American women have traditionally had a lower risk of breast cancer than others, but epidemiologists at the Keck School of Medicine of University of Southern California and USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center have found that their breast cancer rates have been rising.
Cases of breast cancer among Japanese-American women, in particular, have been increasing rapidly, according to research published in the June 10 issue of the International Journal of Cancer.
The study is based on cancer cases reported in the mid-to-late 1990s to the Los Angeles Cancer Surveillance ...