Integrating Electronic Health Record, Cancer Registry, and Geospatial Data to Study Lung Cancer in Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Ethnic Groups.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A relatively high proportion of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) females with lung cancer have never smoked. We used an integrative data approach to assemble a large-scale cohort to study lung cancer risk among AANHPIs by smoking status with attention to representation of specific AANHPI ethnic groups.

Methods

We leveraged electronic health records (EHRs) from two healthcare systems-Sutter Health in northern California and Kaiser Permanente Hawai'i-that have high representation of AANHPI populations. We linked EHR data on lung cancer risk factors (i.e., smoking, lung diseases, infections, reproductive factors, and body size) to data on incident lung cancer diagnoses from statewide population-based cancer registries of California and H

SUBMITTER: DeRouen MC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8530225 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature