The Gut Cancer Foundation is calling for specific research to pinpoint and address the factors behind stubbornly high rates of stomach cancer in in Maori and Pasifika communities. The Cancer Control Agency State of the Nation Report has identified stomach cancer as one of the cancers with the highest disparity in both incidence and outcomes between Maori and non-Maori. The overall rate of occurrence among Maori and Pacific peoples remains significantly higher (62 percent) than the population average (18 percent) - and three times greater than people of European ethnicity. Associate Professor Karyn Paringatai is conducting research into Maori experience of the CDH1 gene mutation and how it affects whanau Maori across Aotearoa. [picture id="4LMEHCE_Dr_Karyn_Paringatai_jpeg" crop="16x10" layout="full"]
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