Cost effectiveness of cervical cancer screening among Chinese women in North America.

Background: Chinese North American women have high invasive cervical cancer rates and low screening rates. The cost-effectiveness of strategies to improve Pap testing rates for Chinese women living in Seattle, Washington and Vancouver, British Columbia was examined.

Objectives: To calculate the costs and cost-effectiveness of implementing two strategies to motivate women to obtain a Pap smear.

Ethnic differences in survival for female cancers of the breast, cervix and colorectum in British Columbia, Canada.

Background: Chinese and South Asians are among the fastest growing minority populations in Canada; however little is known about the burden of cancer in these populations.

Objective: The objective is to examine survival rates for breast, cervical and colorectal cancers in women within these two ethnic populations, as compared to the BC general population.

Methods: Survival rates were calculated for three time periods in the Chinese, South Asian and BC general populations, using the BC cancer registry.