Asian American Women And Racialized Femininities

Breast Cancer Screening in Racialized Women

Dietary patterns and breast cancer risk in Asian American women.

BACKGROUND The role of diet as a cause of breast cancer in Asian Americans has not been adequately studied. OBJECTIVE We investigated the association between dietary patterns and breast cancer risk in Asian Americans. DESIGN This population-based case-control study in Los Angeles County compared dietary patterns between 1248 Asian American women with incident breast cancer and 1148 age-, et...

Urinary estrogen metabolites and their ratio among Asian American women.

Controversy persists regarding the role of a low ratio of 2-hydroxyestone (2-OHE(1))/16alpha-hydroxyestrone (16alpha-OHE(1)) as a potential estrogen metabolism marker of increased risk for breast cancer. Most of the evidence has been provided by case-control studies, where tumor effects on hormone metabolism are not known. Studies in populations at various risk of breast cancer are not consiste...

Physical, behavioral, and mental health issues in Asian American women: results from the National Latino Asian American Study.

AIMS Asian American women's health has been understudied while the Asian American population is increasing. The purpose of this study was to examine the physical, behavioral, and mental health of Asian American women. METHODS Using a nationally representative sample (n=1097) from the National Latino Asian American Study (NLAAS), the first comprehensive epidemiologic survey in the United State...

Disparities in cervical cancer survival among Asian-American women.

PURPOSE We compared overall survival and influencing factors between Asian-American women as a whole and by subgroup with white women with cervical cancer. METHODS Cervical cancer data were from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results registry; socioeconomic information was from the Area Health Resource File. We used standard tests to compare characteristics between groups; the Kaplan...