EMU professor promotes breast cancer screening among Asian American women in southeastern Michigan

A woman in tears tells researcher Tsu-Yin Wu that she is so thankful to have learned how to do a breast self-exam. She found a lump in her breast that was in the early stages of cancer. She received treatment and is now a survivor. That was only two months after she learned the self-exam technique.

This type of story tells Wu, an Eastern Michigan University associate professor of nursing, that her message of preventative health care associated with breast exams is "getting through."

"My true reward is to have women learn to be self-motivated (about breast cancer detection). Breast cancer affects all women and early detection is the key to survival," said Wu.

THE WU FACTOR: Tsu-Yin Wu, an EMU associate professor of nursing, is working to promote breast cancer screening among immigrant Asian American women. She recently received a $249,096 grant from the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation to promote that goal.

Wu recently received a $249,096 grant from the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation to promote breast cancer screening among immigrant Asian American women. Wu previously conducted a similar study for Chinese American women.

Her goal is to reduce breast cancer by educating immigrant women, 40 years or older from southeastern and southern Asia, about health education and breast cancer screening practices.

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