UCSF to lead first long-term study of cancer among Asian Americans

May 22 2024University of California - San Francisco UC San Francisco researchers have received $12.45 million from the National Cancer Institute to lead the first long-term study of cancer among Asian Americans, a highly diverse yet understudied group.

Researchers also plan to study the increasing rates of breast cancer, especially among young Asian-American women; and the relatively high rates of nasopharyngeal cancer, a type of head-and-neck cancer, in Chinese Americans; as well as liver cancer in Southeast Asian Americans; gastric cancer in Korean and Japanese Americans; and thyroid cancer in Filipino Americans.

Scarlett Lin Gomez, PhD, MPH, co-leader of the Cancer Control Program at the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, professor of epidemiology and biostatistics, and one of three co-principal investigators of the study Related StoriesThe initial cohort will be supported by a national network of partners across about 20 academic institutions, 40 community organizations, and two policy groups committed to Asian-American health. In the coming years, they plan to recruit 20,000 men and women between the ages of 50 and 75 years old from all Asian-American ethnic groups with diverse socioeconomic levels and lifestyles. They aim to expand the study to at least 50,000 participants.

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