Native Hawaiians had a 71% increased risk for pancreatic cancer compared with White individuals, even after adjusting for known risk factors, found a study based on long-term follow-up data from approximately 80,000 individuals.

Previous studies have shown disproportionate risk for pancreatic cancer in different racial and ethnic groups, notably Native Hawaiians, but data on the risk factors driving this disparity are lacking, Brian Z. Huang, PhD, MPH, a cancer epidemiologist and assistant professor at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, and colleagues wrote.

The researchers reviewed pancreatic cancer incidence and risk factors among 13,641 Native Hawaiians and 47,240 White adults who were part of the Multiethnic Cohort Study , an epidemio

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