Cancer and Culture
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That work is coming to fruition at UC Davis. Shortly after his unsolicited nomination by President Bush in July, Chen achieved another triumph. He succeeded in having AANCART’s national headquarters moved from Columbus to Sacramento.

Funded with more than $7 million from the National Cancer Institute, the five-year AANCART project combines the efforts of researchers at UC Davis Cancer Center and seven other major cancer centers nationwide:

•  MD Anderson Cancer Center (University of Texas)

•  Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
   (Harvard University, Boston)

•  Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center
   (Columbia University, New York City)

•  Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
   (University of Washington, Seattle)

•  Solove Cancer Research Institute (Ohio State University)

•  Cancer Research Center of Hawaii (University of Hawaii)

•  Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center (UCLA)

•  UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center

AANCART accomplishments include development of cancer risk factor questionnaires in Korean and Hindi; creation of the first Korean American teen tobacco peer education program; and prostate cancer awareness programs for Sri Lankans and Nepalis. AANCART also sponsors Asian American “cancer control academies” in cities around the country. Academies for Chinese and Vietnamese Americans dealt with lung and liver cancers. An academy aimed at Korean Americans targeted diet-related cancers. A Cambodian academy focused on cervical cancer.

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Chen is principle investigator of the largest public health campaign ever undertaken to reduce cancer in Asian Americans.