University of Hawai‘i Cancer Center Connection: The Vital Role of Cancer Registries in the Recruitment of an Understudied Minority Population into a Breast Cancer Study: Breast Cancer Risk Model for the Pacific

摘要

Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related death among women in the Mariana Islands;1 and women of the Mariana Islands, especially the indigenous Chamorros, have a higher mortality rate for breast cancer compared to women in the US Mainland.1 Filipinos, the other predominant ethnic group in the Mariana Islands, have low age-adjusted incidence and mortality rates for breast cancer.2 The BRISK study is the first epidemiologic study conducted on Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas (CNMI) to study breast cancer risk factors. It is also the first study to use the newly developing cancer registries on Guam and CNMI to recruit cancer patients.