Breast Cancer Rates Rise Among Asian-American Women as Others Stay Stable

by GRACE HWANG LYNCH

Breast cancer rates have been steadily increasing among Asian-American women over the past 15 years, as the disease has seemed to stabilize in other racial groups, according to a study released this month.

Researchers say it calls attention to the need to understand how different health problems can affect various Asian-American populations.

"It's a shock to people how different that patterns are," Scarlett Lin Gomez, research scientist with the Cancer Prevention Institute of California (CPIC) and the lead author of the report, told NBC News.

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