title: Cancer research in Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander populations: accelerating cancer knowledge by acknowledging and leveraging heterogeneity.
abstract: The Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander population is large, growing, and extremely heterogeneous. Not only do they bear unique burdens of incidence and outcomes for certain cancer types, they exhibit substantial variability in cancer incidence and survival patterns across the ethnic groups. By acknowledging and leveraging this heterogeneity through investing in cancer research within these populations, we have a unique opportunity to accelerate the availability of useful and impactful cancer knowledge. See all the articles in this CEBP Focus section, "Cancer in Asian and Pacific Islander Populations."
authors.affiliation: Cancer Prevention Institute of California, Fremont, California. Division of Epidemiology, Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California. scarlett@cpic.org.
authors.forename: Scarlett Lin
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Gomez
authors.affiliation: Cancer Prevention Institute of California, Fremont, California. Division of Epidemiology, Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California.
authors.forename: Sally L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Glaser
authors.affiliation: Cancer Prevention Institute of California, Fremont, California. Division of Epidemiology, Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California.
authors.forename: Pamela L
authors.initials: PL
authors.lastname: Horn-Ross
authors.affiliation: Cancer Prevention Institute of California, Fremont, California. Division of Epidemiology, Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California.
authors.forename: Iona
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Cheng
authors.affiliation: Cancer Prevention Institute of California, Fremont, California. Division of Epidemiology, Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California.
authors.forename: Thu
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authors.lastname: Quach
authors.affiliation: Cancer Prevention Institute of California, Fremont, California. Division of Epidemiology, Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California.
authors.forename: Christina A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Clarke
authors.affiliation: Cancer Prevention Institute of California, Fremont, California. Division of Epidemiology, Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California.
authors.forename: Peggy
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Reynolds
authors.affiliation: Cancer Prevention Institute of California, Fremont, California. Division of Epidemiology, Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California.
authors.forename: Salma
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Shariff-Marco
authors.affiliation: Cancer Prevention Institute of California, Fremont, California.
authors.forename: Juan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.affiliation: University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California.
authors.forename: Marion M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.affiliation: University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California.
authors.forename: William A
authors.initials: WA
authors.lastname: Satariano
authors.affiliation: Cancer Prevention Institute of California, Fremont, California. Division of Epidemiology, Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California.
authors.forename: Ann W
authors.initials: AW
authors.lastname: Hsing
mesh_terms: D001213:Asian; D035843:Biomedical Research; D006254:Hawaii; D006801:Humans; D019359:Knowledge; D044468:Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000209:etiology*