{"id":160374,"date":"2022-06-08T13:31:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T23:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=160374"},"modified":"2022-06-08T14:50:57","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T00:50:57","slug":"aacr-cancer-disparities-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/06\/08\/aacr-cancer-disparities-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Cancer disparities impacting Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders highlighted in national report"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/manoa-cancer-center-aacr-report.jpg\" alt=\"aacr report\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-160376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/manoa-cancer-center-aacr-report.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/manoa-cancer-center-aacr-report-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/manoa-cancer-center-aacr-report-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The latest data highlighting the impact of cancer health disparities on Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders provided by the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Cancer Center\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uhcancercenter.org\/research\/shared-resources\/hawaii-tumor-registry\"><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Tumor Registry<\/a> is included in the American Association for Cancer Research (<abbr>AACR<\/abbr>) <a href=\"https:\/\/cancerprogressreport.aacr.org\/disparities\/\">2022 Cancer Disparities Progress Report<\/a>. The annual publication raises awareness about the enormous toll that cancer places on racial and ethnic minorities, and other medically underserved populations.<\/p>\n<p>The latest data reported includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Native Hawaiian men had the lowest incidence, but the highest mortality of prostate cancer. <\/li>\n<li>Breast cancer incidence and mortality were highest among Native Hawaiian women compared to any other racial or ethnic group.<\/li>\n<li>Samoan males were 66&#37; more likely to be diagnosed with prostate cancer, but 34&#37; less likely to be diagnosed with colorectal cancer compared to Native Hawaiian males.<\/li>\n<li>Lung cancer incidence was highest among Native Hawaiian men and women, and lung cancer mortality was highest in Native Hawaiian women compared to the other population groups in the state.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The progress report features <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cancerprogressreport.aacr.org\/disparities\/survivor-journeys\/kehau-matsumoto-helping-the-hawaiian-community-get-the-cancer-care-resources-they-need\/\">Lillian (Kehau) Matsumoto<\/a><\/strong>, a 78-year-old Native Hawaiian patient advocate, five-time cancer survivor and member of the <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> Cancer Center\u2019s Community Advisory Board. &ldquo;The <abbr>AACR<\/abbr> Report allows me to educate more people, especially Native Hawaiians, about cancer disparities, and hopefully they will seek help early,&rdquo; Matsumoto said.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?s=cancer\">Read more on <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Cancer Center research.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The report also highlights areas of recent progress and strategies to reduce cancer health disparities through screening guidelines, increased access to health insurance, tailored interventions through community engagement, and ways of improving communication between patients and physicians, while offering specific recommendations to achieve health equity regardless of race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity or socioeconomic status. These interventions play a critical role in helping to reduce the burden of cancer in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>, the Pacific and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The progress report represents a tremendous snapshot of the cancer-related disparities experienced in the U.S. and also ways to address these disparities in cancer care,&rdquo; said <strong>Kevin Cassel<\/strong>, associate professor at the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Cancer Center who also serves on the <abbr>AACR<\/abbr>\u2019s steering committee for the newly released report.<\/p>\n<div class=\"responsive-video-wrap-post\"><figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe  id=\"_ytid_34678\"  width=\"620\" height=\"349\"  data-origwidth=\"620\" data-origheight=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xP8uZi9FRRI?enablejsapi=1&origin=https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu&rel=0&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"Kehau Matsumoto: Helping the Hawaiian Community Get the Cancer Care Resources They Need\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new American Association for Cancer Research Progress Report promotes health equity-focused cancer research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[218,165,242,470,158,169,9],"class_list":["post-160374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-cancer","tag-health","tag-native-hawaiian-health","tag-pacific-islands","tag-publication","tag-uh-cancer-center","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160374"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160439,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160374\/revisions\/160439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}