Moon S Chen

Summary

Affiliation: University of California
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Hepatitis B knowledge and vaccination levels in California Hmong youth: implications for liver cancer prevention strategies
    Lesley M Butler
    Department of Public Health Sciences, Division of Epidemiology, University of California Davis Cancer Center, 4501 X Street, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
    Asian Pac J Cancer Prev 6:401-3. 2005
  2. ncbi Increasing hepatitis B screening for hmong adults: results from a randomized controlled community-based study
    Moon S Chen
    Corresponding Author Moon Shao chuang Chen Jr, University of California Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, 4800 2nd Avenue, Suite 2200, Sacramento, CA 95817
    Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 22:782-91. 2013
  3. ncbi Asian American Network for Cancer Awareness, Research, and Training's legacy. The first 5 years
    Moon S Chen
    Asian American Network for Cancer Awareness, Research, and Training AANCART, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of California Davis, Sacramento, California 95817, USA
    Cancer 107:2006-14. 2006
  4. ncbi Cancer health disparities among Asian Americans: what we do and what we need to do
    Moon S Chen
    Department of Public Health Sciences, School of Medicine, University of California Davis, Sacramento, California 95817, USA
    Cancer 104:2895-902. 2005
  5. ncbi Review of smoking cessation research among Asian Americans: the state of the research
    Moon S Chen
    Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis, USA
    Nicotine Tob Res 9:485-93. 2007
  6. ncbi Integrating theory into community interventions to reduce liver cancer disparities: The Health Behavior Framework
    Roshan Bastani
    School of Public Health, and Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095 6900, USA
    Prev Med 50:63-7. 2010
  7. ncbi Hepatitis B awareness, knowledge, and screening among Asian Americans
    Tung T Nguyen
    Vietnamese Community Health Promotion Project and UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
    J Cancer Educ 22:266-72. 2007
  8. ncbi Provider smoking cessation advice among California Asian-American smokers
    Elisa K Tong
    Department of Internal Medicine, University of California Davis, Sacramento, California 95817, USA
    Am J Health Promot 25:S70-4. 2011
  9. ncbi English language proficiency and smoking prevalence among California's Asian Americans
    Hao Tang
    Tobacco Control Section, California Department of Health Services, Sacramento, CA 95899 7413, USA
    Cancer 104:2982-8. 2005
  10. ncbi Overcoming barriers to cancer clinical trial accrual: impact of a mass media campaign
    Ari Umutyan
    University of California Davis Cancer Center, Sacramento, California 95817, USA
    Cancer 112:212-9. 2008

Research Grants

  1. AANCART Korean American Cancer Control Academy
    Moon Chen; Fiscal Year: 2004
  2. ASIAN AMERICAN NETWORK FOR CANCER AWAREN, RESEARCH & TRG
    Moon Chen; Fiscal Year: 2004
  3. CNP: Health Benefits of Expressive Writing among Chinese Breast Cancer Survivors
    Moon Chen; Fiscal Year: 2007
  4. Liver Cancer Control Interventions for Asian Americans
    Moon Chen; Fiscal Year: 2007

Detail Information

Publications25

  1. ncbi Hepatitis B knowledge and vaccination levels in California Hmong youth: implications for liver cancer prevention strategies
    Lesley M Butler
    Department of Public Health Sciences, Division of Epidemiology, University of California Davis Cancer Center, 4501 X Street, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
    Asian Pac J Cancer Prev 6:401-3. 2005
    ..We also observed very low prevalence of HBV vaccination (12%), although a majority reported knowing that shots can prevent disease (68%). Liver cancer prevention and control methods targeted to Hmong youth are needed...
  2. ncbi Increasing hepatitis B screening for hmong adults: results from a randomized controlled community-based study
    Moon S Chen
    Corresponding Author Moon Shao chuang Chen Jr, University of California Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, 4800 2nd Avenue, Suite 2200, Sacramento, CA 95817
    Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 22:782-91. 2013
    ..Serologic testing for the hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a principal means to prevent liver cancer-related deaths through earlier identification of those at risk...
  3. ncbi Asian American Network for Cancer Awareness, Research, and Training's legacy. The first 5 years
    Moon S Chen
    Asian American Network for Cancer Awareness, Research, and Training AANCART, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of California Davis, Sacramento, California 95817, USA
    Cancer 107:2006-14. 2006
    ..AANCART's first 5 years have increased cancer awareness, trained special populations scientists, and advanced the field of Asian American cancer control research. Cancer 2006. (c) 2006 American Cancer Society...
  4. ncbi Cancer health disparities among Asian Americans: what we do and what we need to do
    Moon S Chen
    Department of Public Health Sciences, School of Medicine, University of California Davis, Sacramento, California 95817, USA
    Cancer 104:2895-902. 2005
    ..Reducing cancer health disparities among Asian Americans will involve research into their unique, unusual, and unnecessary cancer burden...
  5. ncbi Review of smoking cessation research among Asian Americans: the state of the research
    Moon S Chen
    Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis, USA
    Nicotine Tob Res 9:485-93. 2007
    ..We concluded with three specific recommendations for further research on smoking cessation intervention research focused on Asian Americans...
  6. ncbi Integrating theory into community interventions to reduce liver cancer disparities: The Health Behavior Framework
    Roshan Bastani
    School of Public Health, and Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095 6900, USA
    Prev Med 50:63-7. 2010
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  7. ncbi Hepatitis B awareness, knowledge, and screening among Asian Americans
    Tung T Nguyen
    Vietnamese Community Health Promotion Project and UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
    J Cancer Educ 22:266-72. 2007
    ..Due to the high prevalence of hepatitis B, Asian Americans have high rates of liver cancer. Screening for hepatitis B leads to monitoring and treatment and prevent further infection through vaccination of contacts...
  8. ncbi Provider smoking cessation advice among California Asian-American smokers
    Elisa K Tong
    Department of Internal Medicine, University of California Davis, Sacramento, California 95817, USA
    Am J Health Promot 25:S70-4. 2011
    ..To determine proportions of provider advice to quit smoking for Asian-American smokers and to describe factors that may affect the provision of such advice...
  9. ncbi English language proficiency and smoking prevalence among California's Asian Americans
    Hao Tang
    Tobacco Control Section, California Department of Health Services, Sacramento, CA 95899 7413, USA
    Cancer 104:2982-8. 2005
    ..English proficiency seemed to have the effect of reducing smoking prevalence rates among Asian males but had just the opposite effect among Asian females...
  10. ncbi Overcoming barriers to cancer clinical trial accrual: impact of a mass media campaign
    Ari Umutyan
    University of California Davis Cancer Center, Sacramento, California 95817, USA
    Cancer 112:212-9. 2008
    ..The authors assessed willingness to participate in and accrual to CCT...
  11. ncbi Factors associated with hepatitis B testing among Vietnamese Americans
    Tung T Nguyen
    Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
    J Gen Intern Med 25:694-700. 2010
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  12. ncbi Theoretically informed correlates of hepatitis B knowledge among four Asian groups: the health behavior framework
    Annette E Maxwell
    School of Public Health and Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
    Asian Pac J Cancer Prev 13:1687-92. 2012
    ..The present analysis examined relationships among Health Behavior Framework factors across four Asian American groups to advance the development of theory-based interventions for HBV testing in at-risk populations...
  13. ncbi Evaluation of factors affecting awareness of and willingness to participate in cancer clinical trials
    Primo N Lara
    University of California Davis Cancer Center, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
    J Clin Oncol 23:9282-9. 2005
    ..We evaluated the level of awareness of patients and/or their family members/friends regarding CCTs and SB37...
  14. ncbi Constructing a theoretically based set of measures for liver cancer control research studies
    Annette E Maxwell
    School of Public Health and Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
    Prev Med 50:68-73. 2010
    ..The purpose of this article is to describe the first steps in the process of constructing a theoretically based set of measures that is currently used in three trials to reduce liver cancer disparities...
  15. ncbi Asian subgroups and cancer incidence and mortality rates in California
    Sandy L Kwong
    Cancer Control Branch, California Department of Health Services, Sacramento, CA 95815, USA
    Cancer 104:2975-81. 2005
    ..Acculturation will continue to affect the patterns of cancer incidence among Asian subgroups in California...
  16. ncbi Smoke-free policies among Asian-American women: comparisons by education status
    Elisa K Tong
    Department of Internal Medicine, University of California, Davis, California, USA
    Am J Prev Med 37:S144-50. 2009
    ..California's ethnic-specific surveys present an opportunity to disaggregate data and examine the impact of California's smoke-free social norm campaign for Asian-American women...
  17. ncbi Factors associated with pap testing among Hmong women
    Dao Moua Fang
    Hmong Women s Heritage Association, Sacramento, Calif 95822, USA
    J Health Care Poor Underserved 21:839-50. 2010
    ..0 vs. age 51-65, 95% CI 1.4-6.7) or 31-40 (OR=3.0, 95% CI 1.4-6.4), and less likely if they were single (OR=0.4 vs. married/partnered, 95% CI 0.2-1.0) or born in the U.S. (OR=0.3 vs. <10 years in U.S., 95% CI 0.1-0.8)...
  18. ncbi High quit ratio among Asian immigrants in California: implications for population tobacco cessation
    Shu Hong Zhu
    Cancer Center, Mail Code 0905, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 0905, USA
    Nicotine Tob Res 9:S505-14. 2007
    ..These results suggest that creating an impetus to drive up quit attempts, which often results from a significant change in social norms toward smoking, is the most important strategy to improve cessation on the population level...
  19. ncbi Decreasing disparity in liver transplantation among white and Asian patients with hepatocellular carcinoma : California, 1998-2005
    Anthony S Robbins
    California Cancer Registry, Public Health Institute, Sacramento, California, USA
    Cancer 113:2173-9. 2008
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  20. ncbi Asian Americans and cancer clinical trials: a mixed-methods approach to understanding awareness and experience
    Debora A Paterniti
    Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care, University of California Davis Cancer Center, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
    Cancer 104:3015-24. 2005
    ....
  21. ncbi Electronic messages increase hepatitis B screening in at-risk asian american patients: a randomized, controlled trial
    Leeyen Hsu
    School of Medicine, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
    Dig Dis Sci 58:807-14. 2013
    ..Hepatitis B (HBV) induced hepatocellular carcinoma is the greatest cancer health disparity affecting Asian Americans, but the prevalence of screening to detect HBV is suboptimal...
  22. ncbi The Asian American Network for Cancer Awareness, Research and Training's role in cancer awareness, research and training
    Moon S Chen
    Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of California, Davis, USA
    Asian Am Pac Isl J Health 10:17-24. 2003
    ..CONCLUSION: As of the end of year 2 of AANCART, AANCART's two specific aims have been achieved. We are focusing on our third specific aim...
  23. ncbi Challenges in tobacco use prevention among minority youth
    Moon S Chen
    Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, California 95817, USA
    Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 12:253s-255s. 2003
  24. ncbi Cancer incidence, mortality, and associated risk factors among Asian Americans of Chinese, Filipino, Vietnamese, Korean, and Japanese ethnicities
    Melissa McCracken
    Department of Epidemiology and Surveillance Research, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, GA, USA
    CA Cancer J Clin 57:190-205. 2007
    ..Differences in cancer burden among Asian American ethnic groups should be considered in the clinical setting and in cancer control planning...
  25. ncbi Friendships and relationships: Sacramento AANCART's best practice
    Robin Shimizu
    Tobacco Control Section, California Department of Health Services, Sacramento, CA
    Cancer 104:2937-9. 2005
    ..The best practice of Sacramento's Asian American Network for Cancer Awareness Research and Training program is friendships and relationships...

Research Grants9

  1. AANCART Korean American Cancer Control Academy
    Moon Chen; Fiscal Year: 2004
    ..We shall also welcome cancer prevention and control work related to other cancer risk factors and other cancer sites. ..
  2. ASIAN AMERICAN NETWORK FOR CANCER AWAREN, RESEARCH & TRG
    Moon Chen; Fiscal Year: 2004
    ..Thus, AANCART collaborators will share experiences and expertise, reducing duplication and promoting synergy. ..
  3. CNP: Health Benefits of Expressive Writing among Chinese Breast Cancer Survivors
    Moon Chen; Fiscal Year: 2007
    ..The design and methods of this study embody the missions and goals of AANCART and CNP to reduce these cancer health disparities through the community-based participatory model. ..
  4. Liver Cancer Control Interventions for Asian Americans
    Moon Chen; Fiscal Year: 2007
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