The materials on this page have been created and translated by the American Cancer Society to provide health professionals with downloadable information about cancer in several Asian languages.

The APICEM Tool provides links to Contributor's web sites containing Asian or Pacific Islander cancer education materials. The materials referenced here have been screened by the contributing organizations/programs for medical accuracy and cultural relevance.

This multi-lingual site offers several languages to help Asian Pacific Islander women understand the importance of having mammograms and pap smears at regular intervals. Clinicians will find special materials they can use to personally recommend mammography and pap smears to their patients.

In this paper, collaborators from the National Cancer Institute‘s Division of Cancer Control & Population Sciences and the Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities report cancer incidence, mortality, and stage distributions among Asians and Pacific Islanders (API) residing in the US. Health disparities are noted, using the cancer experience of the non-Hispanic white population as the referent group.

Fast Stats is an interactive tool for quick access to key SEER and U.S. cancer statistics for major cancer sites by age, gender, race/ethnicity and data type. Statistics are presented as graphs and tables.