Online Cancer Resource Helps Asian Americans
2006-Apr-13
By
-- Robert Preidt
THURSDAY, April 13 (HealthDay News) -- Asian Americans can now
access online cancer information written in a variety of languages
via a Web site launched by the American Cancer Society and the
Asian American Network for Cancer Awareness, Research and Training
(AANCART).
The project is funded by the U.S. National Cancer Institute
(NCI).
The site is designed to enable Asians and Pacific Islanders with
limited English language skills to access a range of cancer
information, including how to reduce their risk for different kinds
of cancers.
"Asians and Pacific Islanders are dying, in too many cases, from
a lack of basic information about cancer," Moon S. Chen, principal
investigator of AANCART and associate director for cancer
disparities and research at the University of California, Davis
Cancer Center, said in a prepared statement.
"This new Web resource was developed in response to the need we
heard from the community, and the NCI, for a single point of access
for authoritative cancer education materials for lay audiences,"
Chen said. "Through this Web portal, people will be able to
download cancer information materials that have been reviewed for
scientific content and translated into more than 12 Asian and
Pacific languages. This site provides one-stop access to an
unprecedented volume of these materials."
The languages included on the site are: Khmer, Chamorro,
Chinese, Hawaiian, Hmong, Ilokano, Korean, Samoan, Tagalog, Tongan
and Vietnamese. There are also English-language materials
culturally tailored for Native Hawaiians. Additional languages and
topics will be added as more materials become available.
More information
Here's where you can find
the Asian and
Pacific Islander Cancer Education Materials Web tool.
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