YOUTH SECTION EVERGREEN CLUB COMMUNITY NEWS

attending Evergreen Club meetings. We will miss her dearly.

We are hoping to go out as a group for lunch to a nearby restaurant (Stage House Tavern) on July 2, if the pandemic maintains a relatively low profile.

All the other sessions during the reporting period were held over Zoom and followed our regular format of songs, readings, travelogues and sharing of experiences and concerns on a wide range of subjects.

Following our past tradition, we are not planning to organize Evergreen Club meetings during the rest of the summer.

We wish you a very happy and enjoyable summer!

Indian and Pakistani Women Diagnosed with More Aggressive Breast Cancer at Younger Age

It seemed little weird to trick or treat on Friday, but I didn’t care about it much as it will be so much fun to trick or treat after a year of living in fear. Slowly the world is coming back to normal activity with still some COVID restriction of course. My mom texted Mia’s mom to pick me up. I got in the car and sat down, Mia was eating checkers.

“What” Mia asked, looking at me?

“Nothing” I answered with a smile, looking at her.

“Anooshka, do you want any snacks”, Mia’s mom asked me.

“No, I have some in my house”. I replied, taking my Red Riding Hood costume’s hood off.

“So you are little Red Riding Hood this year, I like your costume”, Mia’s mom said.

“Yes, I am Red Riding Hood. Thanks” I answered.

In a bit we arrived at the downtown. I opened the car door and stepped out on the sidewalk. Mia ran ahead of me.

“Mia, come back!” Mia’s mom said as she turned around.

“I see candy in that store over there!” Mia shouted joyfully, pointing at the store. We went in.

“HAPPY HALLOWEEN” the lady in the store said giving one candy to each of us.

“Thank you” we both said to the lady and left the store.

After trick or treating for a while we were a little exhausted.

“I’m tired, can we go home” Mia grinned “Guess so” Mia’s mom answered. We stopped at Starbucks to take some rest. Mia emptied her candies on the table. Mia’s candies were piled in front of her.

“Mia, you’re going to lose some candies” I told, moving my candies to one side of my basket. Mia and I started to count our candies.

After that Mia’s mom took us back home. It was lot of fun and lot of candies too. I hope we have similar Halloween every year.

SouthAsians are the fastestgrowing major ethnic group in the United States with breast cancer rates increasing within the population, but little is known about the disease in this socio-culturally unique population.

The study, published in the International Journal of Cancer, examined the characteristics of breast cancer in Indian- and Pakistani-American and nonHispanic white women in the United States using data from the National Cancer Institute’s Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results Program. The researchers, who are part of the Rutgers School of Public Health and Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, reviewed incidence data among Indian and Pakistani women between 1990 and 2014.They also reviewed disease characteristics, treatment, and survival data between 2000 and 2016 for 4,900 Indian and Pakistani women and 482,250 non-Hispanic white women with breast cancer.

“Our results provide an insight into breast cancer in Indian and Pakistani women, suggesting several hypotheses to guide future scientific studies to better understand the risk factors influencing disease etiology and prognosis,” said Jaya M. Satagopan, lead author and director of the Center for South Asian Quantitative Health and Education at the Rutgers School of Public Health.

Prior cancer research has shown that fewer Indian and Pakistani women participate in scientific studies and that several sociocultural factors may delay their seeking health care. Research also has shown poor mammogram screening rates in Indian and Pakistani women, which is linked to a lack of family support, lack of transportation, modesty, fear, beliefs that cancer is divine punishment for past deeds, having lived in the United States for less than 10 years, low English proficiency and a lack of faith in the health system.

The study recommends identifying strategies to better engage Indian and Pakistani women in breast cancer studies, and to improve interactions between health care providers and Indian and Pakistani women to identify sociocultural factors associated with screening decisions and health care use in this population.

“As the South Asian population in the United States - and especially in New Jersey - grows, it is imperative that we work to promote health equity in cancer prevention, screening, early diagnosis and treatment through community engagement and a team science approach,” said Anita Kinney, director of the Center for Cancer Health Equity at Rutgers School of Public Health and Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey and professor at the Rutgers School of Public Health, who is also one of the study’s authors.

Source: Press Release from Rutgers University

Youngest Bengali Billionaire in America

Sanjit Biswas is an American Internet entrepreneur and computer scientist and cofounder of Samsara, an Internet of Things company headquartered in San Francisco, California that provides hardware and software for connected operations.

He also co-founded and served as CEO of Meraki, Inc. (now Cisco Meraki), a cloud-managed networking company now part of Cisco Systems. Sanjit Biswas holds degrees from Stanford and MIT.

In 2007, he was named to the

MIT Technology Review TR35 as one of the top 35 innovators in the world under the age of 35. Biswas believes, “There has always been a constant churn of new companies coming in, old companies dying out.”

Source: Internet