Cancer Information in Other Languages

Describes the history and current activities, including Relay For Life and Tell A Friend, of the volunteers of the American Cancer Society California Chinese Unit. Links to additional websites of interest are also provided.

The first Asian American Special Population Network funded by the National Cancer Institute. The goal of AANCART is to build a robust and sustainable infrastructure to increase cancer awareness, research, and training among Asian Americans in order to reduce the burden of cancer among Asian Americans. 

The Asian Liver Center at Stanford University is the first non-profit organization in the United States that addresses the high incidence of hepatitis B and liver cancer in Asians and Asian-Americans. Founded in 1996, the center uses a three-pronged approach towards fighting hepatitis B through outreach & education, advocacy, and research. 

Chinese Community Health Resource Center (CCHRC) was established in 1989 as a private, non-profit community center by The Chinese Community Health Care Association (a physicians’ independent practice association), Chinese Community Health Plan, and Chinese Hospital. The Center’s mission is to build a healthy community through culturally and linguistically competent preventive health, disease management, and research programs. 

Harborview Medical Center is the county hospital in Seattle, Washington. At Harborview, the Refugee and Immigrant Health Promotion Program’s (RIHPP) mission is to improve the health of the refugee and immigrant communities served by the hospital. RIHPP collaborates with the Health Sciences Library at the University of Washington to manage and produce content for EthnoMed, a nationally recognized web site dedicated to providing information about refugee and immigrant health care issues.

Vietnamese Community Health Promotion Project, University of California, San Francisco. The mission of Health is Gold! is to improve the health of Vietnamese living in the United States. The mission is accomplished through various strategies including working with community members to identify salient health problems, developing community-based, culturally-appropriate interventions with Vietnamese community participation, evaluating the interventions using rigorous scientific research methodology, and disseminating the research results for replication.

A national non-profit organization dedicated to finding a cure and improving the quality of life of those affected by hepatitis B worldwide through research, education, and patient advocacy. Information on this website is available in Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), Korean, Vietnamese, and Spanish.

'Imi Hale is a 10-year project funded by the National Cancer Institute - Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities aimed at reducing the burden of cancer among Native Hawaiians.

The Immunization Action Coalition works to increase immunization rates and prevent disease by creating and distributing educational materials for health professionals and the public that enhance the delivery of safe and effective immunization services.

Coordinates the National Cancer Program which conducts and supports research, training, health information dissemination, and other programs with respect to the cause, diagnosis, prevention and treatment of cancer, rehabilitation from cancer, and the continuing care of cancer patients and the families of cancer patients. Information is currently available about cervical cancer screening in Vietnamese translation, and on the importance of regular mammography for women ages 40 and older in Chinese, Tagalog, and Vietnamese translations. See the NCI's Lifelines Cancer Education Series here.  

SPIRAL is a joint initiative of the Tufts University Hirsh Health Sciences Library and the South Cove Community Health Center. SPIRAL provides access to consumer health information in the following Asian languages: Chinese, Hmong, Khmer, Korean, Laotian, Thai, and Vietnamese. It also contains links to a variety of Asian and Pacific Islander health resources.

Weaving an Islander Network for Cancer Awareness, Research and Training in Southern California (WINCART) is a consortium of community-based groups and interdisciplinary researchers, representing public health, community and health psychology, cancer epidemiology, preventive medicine, anthropology, health communication, and health policy with a common goal to reduce cancer disparities among Pacific Islander (PI) groups in Southern California.