Office of Minority Health

Asian Americans generally have lower cancer rates than the non-Hispanic white population. However, disparities still exist in certain types of cancer.

• Asian/Pacific Islander men are 40 percent less likely to have prostate cancer as white men, but they are twice as likely to have stomach cancer.
• Although Asian/Pacific Islander women are 30 percent less likely to have breast cancer than white women, they are twice as likely to have stomach cancer.
• Both Asian/Pacific Islander men and women have 2.1 and 2.3 times, respectively, the incidence of liver & IBD cancer as the non-Hispanic white population.
• Asian/Pacific Islander men are twice as likely to die from stomach cancer as compared to the non-Hispanic white population, and Asian/Pacific Islander women are 2.4 times as likely to die from the same disease.

New Cases

Source:  CDC, 2016. Health United States, 2015. Table 36.
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus14.pdf [PDF |13.02MB]

Top Cancer Sites for Asian/Pacific Islander (2009-2013)

*IBD = Intrahepatic Bile Duct
Source: NCI 2016. Seer Cancer Statistics Review, 1975-2013. Tables 2.15 through 24.15
http://seer.cancer.gov/csr/2013sections.html

5 Year Survival Rate

Not available at this time.

Death Rate

*IBD = Intrahepatic Bile Duct
Source: NCI 2016. Seer Cancer Statistics Review, 1975-2013. Table 1.21.

Screening

Breast Cancer

Source: CDC, 2016. Health United States, 2015. Table 70.
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus15.pdf [PDF | 13.02MB]

Cervical Cancer

Source: CDC, 2016. Health United States, 2015. Table 71.
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus15.pdf [PDF | 13.02MB]

Colon Cancer

Source: CDC 2016. Health United States, 2015. Table 72.
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus15.pdf[PDF | 13.02MB]