Liver cancer study shows affects on immigrants

This new study shows how U.S. born and foreign born Latinos and Asians have different patterns in their cancer rates in this country. This means environment is the reason, not genetics. - - Donna Poisl

by Christina Jewett, California Watch

A researcher examining cancer rates among California Latinos and Asians who were born in and out of the United States reached conclusions that reveal two very different versions of the American dream.

U.S.-born Latino males have liver cancer rates more than double those of their foreign-born counterparts. For Asians born in this country, rates of liver cancer fall by half or more.

"The diversion of patterns in these two ethnic groups is really interesting and raises questions we can study more in depth," said Ellen Chang, a research scientist with the Cancer Prevention Institute of California, who conducted the study.
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