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Asian Americans and Women of Asian Descent
Research
Gomez SL, McKinley M, Chan M, et al. Breast Cancer Incidence in Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Populations, 2000-2022. JAMA Network Open. 2026;9(6):e2621250.
Breast Cancer Research Foundation Webinar, AAPI Women at Risk: The Breast Cancer Trend We Can’t Ignore, October 24, 2025.
Stanford Center for Continuing Medical Education, Womens Health: Cancers in Asian American Women (Segment on Breast Cancer), October 9, 2024.
Giaquinto AN, Sung H, Newman LA, et al. Breast Cancer Statistics 2024. CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians 2024; 74(6): 477-495.
Breast Cancer Research Foundation Podcast, Studying Breast Cancer Risk in Asian American Communities with Dr. Scarlett Gomez, May 22, 2023.
University of California San Francisco CRANE Study (Breast Cancer Risk among AsiaN AmEricans Study), Ongoing.
Sohn, Young-Jin, Connie Y. Chang, and Randy C. Miles. “Current Gaps in Breast Cancer Screening Among Asian and Asian American Women in the United States.” Journal of the American College of Radiology 18, no. 10 (2021): 1376–83.
Dense Breast Tissue and Additional Screening
Research
Kwon, Mi-Ri, Ji Soo Choi, Mi Yeon Lee, et al. “Screening Outcomes of Supplemental Automated Breast US in Asian Women with Dense and Nondense Breasts.” Radiology 307, no. 4 (2023): e222435.
Lange, Jane M., Charlotte C. Gard, Ellen S. O’Meara, Diana L. Miglioretti, and Ruth Etzioni. “Breast Density and Risk of Breast Cancer: Masking and Detection Bias.” American Journal of Epidemiology 194, no. 2 (2025): 441–48.
Hruska, Carrie B., Katie N. Hunt, Nicholas B. Larson, et al. “Molecular Breast Imaging and Digital Breast Tomosynthesis for Dense Breast Screening: The Density MATTERS Trial.” Radiology 316, no. 3 (2025): e243953.
Research
Oshry, Lauren J., Ruth I. Lederman, Haley Gagnon, et al. “Racial Discrimination among Women Seeking Breast Cancer Care.” Npj Breast Cancer 11, no. 1 (2025): 4.
Stapleton SM, Oseni TO, Bababekov YJ, Hung YC, Chang DC. Race/Ethnicity and Age Distribution of Breast Cancer Diagnosis in the United States. JAMA Surg. 2018 Jun 1;153(6):594-595.
Miller-Kleinhenz, Jasmine M., Lindsay J. Collin, Rebecca Seidel, et al. “Racial Disparities in Diagnostic Delay Among Women With Breast Cancer.” Journal of the American College of Radiology 18, no. 10 (2021): 1384–93.
Manik, Ritika, Connor B. Grady, Sara P. Ginzberg, et al. “Racial Disparities and Strategies for Improving Equity in Diagnostic Follow-Up for Abnormal Screening Mammograms.” JCO Oncology Practice 20, no. 10 (2024): 1367–75.
Media
"Breast Cancer Is Rising Fast in One Group of American Women, Newsweek, July 13, 2026.
New breast cancer research finds cases are increasing in historically low-risk groups, CAPRadio (NPR), October 29, 2024.
Breast cancer rises among Asian American and Pacific Islander women, CNN, September 6, 2024.
Younger Asian American women had the second-lowest breast cancer rate. Why they're now tied for No. 1., NBC News, September 20, 2024.
Media
Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN. “Text - S.1410 - 119th Congress (2025-2026): Find It Early Act.” Legislation. April 10, 2025. 2025-04-10.
Satake, Alison. “Mayo Clinic Research Improves Dense Breast Cancer Screening and Early Detection.” Mayo Clinic News Network, October 2, 2025. (Non-jargon explanation of the Density MATTERS Trial.)
Racism in Screening and Treatment
Media
Priya Malhotra PhD. “Understanding Breast Cancer Racial Disparities.” Breast Cancer Research Foundation, February 14, 2025.
McGreevey, Sue. “MGH Analysis Points to Race Bias in Breast-Cancer Screening.” Harvard Gazette, March 7, 2018.
Miller-Kleinhenz, Jasmine M., Lindsay J. Collin, Rebecca Seidel, et al. “Racial Disparities in Diagnostic Delay Among Women With Breast Cancer.” Journal of the American College of Radiology 18, no. 10 (2021): 1384–93.