Breast cancer incidence in Asian migrants to the United States and their descendants.
We studied breast cancer incidence during the period 1973-1986 in Asian residents of three U.S. geographic areas. The rate in Asian-American women born in China or Japan and in their U.S.-born counterparts was about 50% and 75% that of U.S.-born whites, respectively, and was approximately twice the rate of women residing in Asia. Breast cancer incidence was nearly identical in U.S.- and foreign-born Filipino-Americans, but it was 40% that of U.S.-born whites.
Stanford
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JL
Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA.
Herrinton
L J
LJ
Schwartz
S M
SM
Weiss
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D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001213:Asian; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000208:ethnology*; D002681:China / Q000208:ethnology; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007564:Japan / Q000208:ethnology; D008875:Middle Aged; D010679:Philippines / Q000208:ethnology; D018426:SEER Program; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology