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Indian American and Pakistani American males in the U.S. experienced a 2.9% annual increase in lung cancer diagnoses from 1990 to 2008, according to a recent study, at a time when lung cancer rates were declining overall in the general population.<\/strong><\/p>\n

And among Indian American and Pakistani American females, breast cancer was the most commonly diagnosed cancer in that period, with a 3% increase in diagnoses annually.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cancer of the uterus, the third most common cancer among Indian and Pakistani American women in the U.S., also experienced a 3% increase in diagnoses from 1990 to 2008.<\/strong><\/p>\n

These are some of the stunning findings from the first cancer study that has been conducted on the eight largest Asian American group<\/strong>s in the U.S. over such a prolonged period of time.<\/p>\n

The report, published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, was obtained by analyzing 13 Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results registries of the National Cancer Institute.<\/p>\n

The eight Asian American cohorts studied were:<\/strong> Asian Indians\/Pakistanis, Chinese, Filipinos, Vietnamese, Koreans, Japanese, Kampucheans (Cambodians) and Laotians.<\/p>\n

The registries covered nearly 54 percent of the total Asian American population in the U.S. in the period, study co-author Scarlett Lin Gomez, a research scientist at the Cancer Prevention Institute of California, told India-West.<\/p>\n

Among Asian Indian and Pakistani women from 1990-1994, breast cancer was the leading cancer, followed by colorectal, uterine, lung and ovarian. In 2008, thyroid cancer was the fifth most common cancer for the first time.<\/p>\n

Breast cancer increased in all Asian American women from 1990 to 2008, except for Japanese women.<\/p>\n

Interesting statistics! Make sure you get your cancer screenings!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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