Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 3, Number 9, 1 September 1986 — Hawaiians High in Lung Cancer [ARTICLE]

Hawaiians High in Lung Cancer

Hawaiians and part Hawaiians have very high rates of !ung cancer and women in this group get breast cancer more often than average. This is the word from the Hawaii Cancer Information Service whieh also points out that Japanese have high rates of eolon and rectum cancer while Caucasians

have more skin cancer. Free booklets, fact sheets and answers to your eancer prevention questions are available to anyone who calls on Oahu, 524-1234, with neighbor islanders calling collect.