Advisory Board September 9, 2024
Recent federal data shows that Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) women are seeing rates of new breast cancer diagnoses rise faster than most other racial and ethnic groups, and experts have yet to figure out the cause, Phillip Reese reports for KFF Health News.
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Breast cancer rates rise among AAPI women
In 2021, around 11,000 AAPI women were diagnosed with breast cancer and roughly 1,500 died. According to age-adjusted data from NIH, around 55 of every 100,000 AAPI women under 50 were diagnosed with breast cancer in 2021, a rate higher than Black and Hispanic women and around equal to the rate for white women.
In addition, between 2000 and 2021, the...
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