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A Culture of Employee Appreciation
Happy August
Adcotron EMS, Inc.
Adcotron
EMS, Inc
Moon
Festival!
中秋節特刊 尊重員工價值
不難理解當一個人進入Adcotron EMS公司玻璃大門時所獲得的
那種振奮之情。不僅環境一塵不染－－公司在南波士頓海洋工業園
所佔的35,000平方英尺中珍珠白的牆壁到處可見──而且以一個高
度組織的方式呈現，複雜程度不同的芯片製造機與相映的組件與主
板合併 。但是據公司的CEO幾主席Agnes Young介紹，Adcotron
成功的真正秘訣並不在于高技術機械或者生產衍生的綜合產品，而
Photo by Agnes Young – The employees of Adcotron EMS, Inc.
It is not difficult to understand the
cheerful feeling one gets when entering through the glass doors of Adcotron EMS, Inc. Not only is the environment spotless - the pearly white
walls visible all around the 35,000
square foot lot the company occupies
in South Boston’s Marine Industrial
Park - but in a supremely organized
manner, highly-automated equipment place components on boards
with precision and efficiency. However, neither the sophisticated machinery nor the complex products
are the true reason of Adcotron’s
success, as the company’s Chief Executive Officer and President Agnes
Young would suggest. Patrolling,
pushing buttons, checking components, turning dials, peering through
microscopes all throughout the facility, clad in blue, anti-static overcoats
are the true success: the employees.
“Our employees are more important
than anything,” said Young, who herself wore a blue, anti-static overcoat
during a tour of the facility. Young’s
connection with her employees is
unmistakable – every employee
turning to greet her as she made her
way around explaining the intricacies of each machine and station.
Adcotron, a premier Electronics
Contract Manufacturing service
(EMS) provider that specializes in
manufacturing low to medium volume complex electronic assemblies
and systems integration for a broad
range of industries including medical, military, industrial, telecommunication and alternative energy, sits
in a Boston Redevelopment Authority-owned building along Boston’s
beautiful waterfront district and
boasts a story few, if any, businesses
around can claim.
在於穿著藍色防靜電外套的員工們：他們在公司隨處可見，有的負
責控制按鈕，有的負責檢查組件，有的負責轉動錶盤，有的通過顯
微鏡觀察整套設備。
“我的員工們比任何事都重要。”Young介紹說。
(詳文請見反面中文第一版)
Happy New Year!
新年快乐！
Born out of the closure of a previous
company, Adcotron got its start in
2005. When Advanced Electronics, a
company that had been around since
1978 decided to close its doors in
October of 2005, Young, who led the
management team in acquiring all of
the assets from Advanced Electronics, Inc., formed Adcotron EMS, Inc.
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is Coming Out on January 20th, 2012!
春節特刊將與一月二十日出版
敬請期待！
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On Friday, December 23, 2011, the
Asian American Civic Association held
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70 Next STEP students.
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August 8, 2014
Clean Up Chinatown to host
recycling workshops
BY VEKONDA LUANGAPHAY
You put opportunity first.
Mayor Marty Walsh and District Attorney Daniel Conley attended National Night Out to recognize Top Crime Watch of the Year Awardees the Boston Chinatown Crime Watch, with CCBA
President Hung Goon. (Image courtesy of Vekonda Luangaphay.)
Chinatown community celebrates
National Night Out
BY VEKONDA LUANGAPHAY
This year the National Night Out, a
public event promoting safe communities and community partnerships, was
held at Tai Tung Village in Chinatown
on August 6.
Families and friends gather to engage
with the law enforcements agencies, civic groups, neighborhood organizations,
neighborhood crime watch groups and
local officials.
Boston Police Department Captain
Kenneth Fong of District A-1, which
covers Chinatown, joined the celebration. “It’s great seeing everybody out
here, seeing a lot of families, a lot of kids
… it’s just really vibrant out here in Chinatown. It always has been,” he said.
Mayor Marty Walsh and local political figures stopped by to celebrate with
Hudson Street in Chinatown. (Image courtesy of Vekonda Luangaphay.)
the Chinatown community.
“What makes neighborhood so great
is the people that live in it, and it’s so
great to see the young people involved in
different activities and different organizations, as well as the older people who
have been here for a long time,” Walsh
said.
The grantees of the Top Crime Watch
of the Year Award went to the Boston
Chinatown Crime Watch, a neighborhood watch unit program established in
2005 by the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association of New England.
Officers and community organizations engaged residents with games and
gifts. Attendees were encouraged to take
information pamphlets on safety procedures.
Come early September, the Clean Up
Chinatown Committee will run community workshops on how to recycle and
inform residents on the importance on
cleaning up Chinatown. The committee met August 4 at the Asian American
Civic Association.
“It’s about getting involved to improve our behavior on how we handle
trash and litter,” said Mary Chin, president of the Clean Up Chinatown Committee. In September, the committee will
offer evening and weekend workshops.
The committee will also educate the public on what are the sanitary code violations and fines.
In the meantime, a door-to-door campaign will start August with information
on recycling and pass out free recycling
trash bags throughout Chinatown.
“We are working with property owners to clean up their trash, and it is working very well so far,” said Leo Boucher,
committee member and assistant commissioner at City of Boston Inspectional
Services Department. “But sometimes it
is hard to identify the source of the trash.
We are planning to deal with commercial
areas.”
The committee is exploring cigarettebutt recycling receptacles as a solution.
Currently, the City of Boston, the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association and Chinatown Main Street have
hired workers to pick up litter from Chinatown sidewalks.
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Event Calendar
Chinatown August
Moon Festival
Sunday, August 10
10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Harrison and Beach
Streets
Boston, MA 02111
Have fun at an outdoor party in Chinatown
celebrating the end of
the harvest season. Eat
delicious
mooncakes
while enjoying the many
activities, music, storytellers, food and a dragon parade to celebrate
the full moon.
Community celebration of bilingual ballots
Wednesday, August 13
6:30 to 8 pm
Josiah Quincy School
885 Washington Street
Boston, MA 02111
The Chinese Progressive Association and the
Boston Chinatown Resident Association invite
all the members and
supporters of the Coalition for Asian American
Voting Rights to a special
celebration of the passage of H. 4089, the Boston Home Rule Petition
which permanently established provisions for
Chinese and Vietnamese
bilingual ballots for Boston voters.
Fisherman’s Feast
August 14 to August 17
10 a.m. to 11 p.m.
Boston’s historic North
End on North, Fleet and
Lewis Streets
The Fishermen’s Feast
began in Boston in 1910
and is based on a tradition that dates back to
the 16thcentury in Sicily. The feast is always
held in Boston’s historic
North End on North and
Fleet Streets, making it
the North End’s oldest
continuously
running
Italian festival. Fishermansfeast.com
Professor Under 40 Building a successful
and fruitful academic
career
Saturday, August 16
1:30 to 5 p.m.
Merkert 127 Auditorium
2609 Beacon Street
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Monte Jade invites
four young professors
from Harvard, MIT and
BC to share their successful experiences in
academic career with
young professionals in
the New England area.
What makes them who
they are and where they
are? Academic research
is a lonely road, what
motivates them and
keeps their passion going. Light refreshments
will be provided.
Quincy August Moon
Festival
Sunday, August 17
11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Quincy City Hall
1305 Hancock Street
Quincy, MA 02169
The festival will have
something for everyone: traditional dance
and cultural performances, singing, drums,
poetry, and an international food court and
food trucks. The South
Shore YMCA will be running crafts and games
for children and healthpromoting activities for
people of all ages.
Chinatown/South Cove
Neighborhood Council
meeting
Monday, August 18
6 p.m.
90 Tyler Street
Boston, MA 02111
The Chinatown/South
Cove
Neighborhood
Council meeting will
take place at the Chinese
Consolidated Benevolent Association. The
public is welcome to attend.
Chinatown Safety
Committee meeting
Wednesday, September 3
10:30 a.m.
821 Washington Street
Boston MA 02116
The Chinatown Safety
Committee meeting will
take place at the DoubleTree Hotel. The public is
welcome to attend.
Chinatown Resident
Association meeting
Wednesday, Sept. 3
6:30 p.m.
885 Washington Street
Boston MA 02111
The Chinatown Resident Association meeting will take place at the
Josiah Quincy Elementary School cafeteria. The
public is welcome to attend.
Quincy Asian Resources free legal clinic
Monday, August 25
6 to 8 p.m.
1509 Hancock Street,
Suite 209
Quincy, MA 02169
QARI will host a free
monthly legal clinic addressing individual concerns over immigration
law,
landlord/tenant
law, family law, personal
injury and criminal issues. More information
is available at www.quincyasianresources.org or
call (617) 472-2200.
Harvard Chinese Culture Workshop
Thursday Sept. 4
2 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Harvard University
Harvard Yenching Library
Common Room,
2 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138
Harvard Chinese Culture Workshop Chinese
Writers’ Association in
N.A. New England Chapter will have a workshop.
BCEC ESL and citizenship classes
Saturdays, Sept. 6 to
Dec. 13
9:30 a.m. to noon
Boston Chinese Evangelical Church
249 Harrison Avenue
Boston, MA 02111
The fee is $25. For
more information, call
(617) 426-5711.
2nd Annual Cape Cod
Food Truck Fest
Saturday, September 6
11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
214 Lincoln St. Suite 300
Allston, MA 02134
The Cape Cod Food
Truck Festival returns
to the Cape Cod Fairgrounds. With many of
the same food trucks
expected to appear
throughout the state,
Food Truck Festivals
of New England will be
kicking off its fall sched-
ule of festivals on the
Cape with over 20 food
trucks participating this
year. FoodTruckFestivalsOfNE.com
Mathapalooza!
Saturday, Sept. 13
Noon to 4 p.m.
Framingham Centre
Common
2 Oak Street
Framingham, MA 01701
The event emphasizes the wonders of
mathematics with both
physical and intellectual activities for children and their families,
including a giant 40 x
40 foot maze, oversize
versions of games such
as chess, checkers, Connect Four and Jenga, and
unique, age-appropriate
and
mathematicallyinspired games and
puzzles created especially for the event, such
as Pin the Mustache on
Albert Einstein, Bean
Bag Addition, Break the
Secret Code, and Magic
Potion Formulation.
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Winter Valley Residences for the Elderly, Inc.,
a 160-unit complex financed by HUD for those
62 and older or physically disabled, is now
accepting applications.
Winter Valley Residences has studios, one
and two bedroom and barrier free units. They
are owned and managed by Milton
Residences for the Elderly, Inc., 600 Canton
Avenue, Milton, MA 02186
The Chinatown Resident Association met on August 6 at the Josiah Quincy Elementary
School. (Image courtesy of Vekonda Luangaphay.)
Chinatown Resident Association welsomes political hopefuls
BY VEKONDA LUANGAPHAY
The Chinatown Resident Association
held its monthly meeting on August 6 at
the Josiah Quincy School.
Residents discussed concerns about a
proposed building renovation, and also
met several candidates running in the Sept.
9 primary. Winners of the primary will be
on the November ballot for governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general.
The owner of the vacant building located on 213 Harrison Avenue, Bob Chen,
presented a proposed renovation of the
building with his son, Jim Chen. Currently,
the building is three and a half stories high,
and they proposed renovating the building
to be four stories high, leveling the height
to its adjacent building. After renovation,
they plan to apartments for rent.
Residents expressed concern on rising rental prices in Chinatown as a result
of renovation, safety precautions for residents near the construction area and pos-
sible construction residue clogging up surrounding gutters. Bob and Jim Chen said
they took out $3 million in liability to help
cover any incidentals during construction
and up to one year after construction.
Political candidates for the upcoming
2014 election attended the meeting to introduce themselves to the residents:
• Warren Tolman, a Democratic candidate for Massachusetts attorney general.
Concerns: Consumer protection.
• Steve Kerrigan, Democratic candidate
for lieutenant governor of Massachusetts.
Concerns: Military family support.
• Evan Falchuk, United Independent
candidate for governor of Massachusetts.
Concerns: Cost of living and jobs.
• Mark Fisher, a Republican candidate
for governor of Massachusetts. Concerns:
Education and jobs
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The Asian Community Development
Corporation, New Boston Fund, and the
Suffolk Construction Company recently
announced their three-month construction
announced the 3-month vision of the construction progress of One Greenway, a new
apartment building, at a community meeting in Chinatown on Wednesday evening,
July 30th. While describing their upcoming
vision of the building’s utilities, the presenters also did a mentioning of the job opportunities for local hires.
The building One Greenway, which is
being built on a land site titled Parcel 24
and is located by the corner of Albany
Street and Kneeland street, will be 21 stories holding 363 units, 135 garage parking spots, as well as an open space for the
public to enjoy. The project completion is
scheduled for June 2015. In the meantime,
the structuring and roofing of the mid-rise
and high-rise part of building is scheduled for completion by December 2014.
Installation of the elevators is scheduled
for January 2015, and the mechanical and
interior work will proceed through February 2015. Applications for occupancy will
open in the spring of 2015 with units possibly available by May 2015.
The bottom-level of the building will
be property for retail and community commercial space, in which 3,300 square feet
will be reserved for retail floor 1, and 5,000
square feet, will be reserved for nonprofits
or community commercial space on floor
2. One Greenway has hired Boston Urban
Partnership as the broker to work with
businesses interested in the retail space,
and the Asian Community Development
Corporation will assist the nonprofits.
Local hires need to be in a union before
being hired into the union project, One
Greenway. An apprenticeship information
session for the union application process
is scheduled for this fall 2014, the actual
date is soon to be determined. Construction trade contractors certified Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE), Minority Business Enterprise (MBE), or Women
Owned Business Enterprise (WBE) are
encouraged to apply to the Suffolk’s 2014
Subcontractor Development Series, in
which the application process is now open
and will end in August 15th.
“We take great pride in creating equal
access and opportunity for quality-driven,
experienced subcontractors on all of our
projects, and we are thrilled to have support from the City of Boston and Massachusetts Supplier Diversity Office for our
Subcontractor Development Series,” Brian
McPherson, director of diversity and workforce compliance at Suffolk Construction,
said in the company’s press release of July
14, 2014. About 50 so far applied, and the
selection committee will pick about 25 applicants.
The next meeting on the construction
progress is scheduled in October 2015. For
further information contact:
Cliff Page of Suffolk Construction:
617-517-3527
[email protected]
Beck Dangler of Boston Urban Partners:
617-274-4907
[email protected]
Janelle Chan of Asian Community Development Corporation:
617-482-2380 ext. 209
[email protected]
Suffolk County Sheriff
Steven W. Tompkins
和Sheriff 部門的職員們
祝大家有一個很愉快
並且平安的中秋節。
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August 8, 2014
Chinatown crime blotter
for August 2 to August 6
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August 8, 2014
Boston Asian Youth Essential Service
new program focuses on teen health and fitness
BY THE BOSTON POLICE DEPARTMENT
BY VEKONDA LUANGAPHAY
All reports are submitted by the
Boston Police Department. The time
period is from August 2 to August 6, for
District A-1, which includes Chinatown.
To report a crime or suspicious activity, call 911. Interpreters are available for
Chinese speakers.
sponded to Hudson Street on a report of
an assault in progress. Upon arrival, the
officers met and spoke with the victim.
He stated the suspect struck him with a
sneaker and pulled a pair of scissors out
and threatened him. The suspect fled the
scene prior to the officers’ arrival.
Trespassing
August 2, 12:30 p.m.: The suspect
was arrested on Boylston Street for trespassing. He was observed by the officers
standing in an area where a “No Trespassing” sign was clearly posted.
Receiving stolen property
August 5, 10:22 a.m.: The suspect
was arrested on Washington Street on a
charge of receiving stolen property. He
was observed with property that did not
belong to him.
Operating under the influence
August 3, 3:40 a.m.: The suspect was
arrested on Pine Street for operating under the influence. He was involved in a
motor vehicle accident and upon further
investigation it was determined he was
driving while impaired.
Trespassing
August 6, 2:15 p.m.: The suspect was
arrested on Boylston Street for trespassing. He was observed by the officers in
an area where a “No Trespassing” sign
was clearly posted.
Warrant arrest
August 4, 2 a.m.: The suspect was arrested on Washington Street on an outstanding warrant issued out of Lowell
District Court.
Assault and battery with a deadly
weapon
August 4, 6 p.m.: The officers re-
Drugs
August 6, 5:40 p.m.: The suspect
was arrested on Tyler Street on a drug
offense. The suspect was observed by
members of the crime watch smoking
out of a crack pipe. The officer upon further investigation discovered what appeared to be crack cocaine on his person.
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Gov. Deval Patrick signed bilingual ballots into law for Boston in Chinatown on July 31 at the
Metropolitan community room. (Image courtesy of the Sampan editorial team.)
Bilingual ballots come to Boston;
Malden and Quincy consider
voluntary adoption
BY VEKONDA LUANGAPHAY
With the primary election coming up
in Sept. 9, Boston’s polling sites will
have fully translated Chinese and Vietnamese ballots. Many organizations of
the Coalition for Asian American Voting
Rights celebrated the signing of the law
as they have fought for this voting right
for many years.
“It’s good because now voters who
struggle in English can vote independently and are not discouraged to vote,”
said Chau-ming Lee, executive director
of the Asian American Civic Association, which is a member of the Coalition
for Asian American Voting Rights.
Gov. Deval Patrick signed a bilingual
ballot bill into law in Boston on July
31, which means translated Chinese and
Vietnamese ballots are required at polling sites in location areas where there are
high concentrations of these language
groups. And although there is a dispersed
Asian population throughout cities near
Boston, the bill does not apply to every
city in Massachusetts.
The current law requires polling sites
should have translated ballots that are
prominently displayed, bilingual poll
workers to be available and easily identifiable, and documentation around the
polling stations, such as the Voter Bill of
Rights, be translated.
“We would certainly be interested if
people were to report back if they didn’t
see the translated ballots or if there
weren’t any bilingual poll workers,” said
Terry Minnis, director of Census and
Voting Programs at Advancing Justice
(AAJC) in D.C.
In Malden, just outside of Boston, the
demand for bilingual ballots isn’t as high.
“It’s not the timing yet. Bilingual ballots
are most needed by elderly Asian American voters who have difficulty learning
English,” said Yan Yu, constituent service representative of the Asian community in the Mayor’s Office of City of
Malden, in an email. Elderly long-time
residents are exempted from the English
language portion of the citizenship exam
if they’ve resided in the United States for
up to 15 years.
Yu explained Malden is still an emerging Asian community and therefore there
isn’t a high population of long-time senior residents, whereas in Chinatown an
Asian community has been established.
With Malden being a diverse community, Yu said bilingual ballots would need
to cover a variety of languages —if the
city adopts the law. “We not only have
a large Asian population, but also have a
lot of Haitians, Arabians and Brazilians
in the City. If we need to do it, we need
to cover it in all languages.”
Although Malden is not required to
have bilingual ballots and language assistance at polling stations, there have
been bilingual poll workers on election
days to help with translation in recent
years.
With Quincy city having a large
Asian population, it has adopted the law
but only for Chinese bilingual ballots,
said Minnis, who has worked on a pollmonitoring project in Quincy back in the
2012.
Communities such as Quincy can
qualify for federal language assistance
since more than 5 percent of the votingage citizens in the jurisdiction belong to
a single language minority community
and have limited English proficiency,
two of the criteria listed in Section 203
of the Voting Rights Act.
Other communities, such as Malden,
will have to rely on community engagement to make bilingual ballots available.
“Start talking with elected officials
about providing some voluntary language assistance,” Minnis said. “In theory it doesn’t cost more to hire a bilingual
worker as a oppose to a monolingual poll
worker.”
Since the bill isn’t applicable outside Boston, Minnis said other cities can
also look at Boston as a model. “If you
have folks who are community leaders
who are interested in an issue, they can
certainly engage with the election body
who runs the election in the county or the
city and talk to them about trying to see
whether or not they would be amenable
to providing some voluntary language
assistance.”
The Chinese Progressive Association,
the Boston Chinatown Resident Association and the Coalition for Asian American Voting Rights will host a victory
celebration for Asian American voting
rights on August 13 from 6:30 p.m. to 8
p.m. at Josiah Quincy School Cafeteria.
HAPPY AUGUST MOON!
Armanda Trinh Britton, a youth worker of the Boston Asian Youth Essential
Service, knows preventing obesity in
children is more than just emphasizing
pumping iron and sweating bullets.
Britton runs the Obesity Prevention
Program at the youth service, one of
seven programs committed to promoting a healthy lifestyle in the residents of
the greater Boston area. The program is
funded by the Asian Health Initiative at
Tufts Medical Center, which awarded
organizations with funds for three years
in order to propose and implement health
programs that not only encourage a
healthy lifestyle, but can also measure
the progress of its participants.
To that end, the Boston Asian Youth
Essential Service launched its first year
of the fund cycle with their Obesity Prevention Program, which has participants
ranging from 13 to 18 years old, and focuses on helping youth develop healthy,
lifelong habits.
The youth service offers a variety of
physical activities for its participants,
from zumba to basketball. “We try to offer a variety of things, because not every
kid is going to like every thing,” Britton
said. But one thing they all are encouraged to do is walk.
“It is our thing. We’re going to walk
all the time, walk as much as we can and
we encourage them [youth] to get off the
train a stop early,” Britton said. “To encourage that whole walking thing is so
that it’s not about having to have money
to exercise or to go somewhere to workout and be happy.”
Britton takes the youths out for a
mile-long walk on Tuesdays. She sometimes walks fast to get the teens to walk
faster, or with the luck of the rain the kids
speed up themselves. “It becomes fun,”
she said. “It’s not about pumping iron;
you can sweat and have fun.”
The Obesity Prevention Program also
and sugar, and god knows what else, it’s
a foreign substance and we don’t know
what the heck that is,” she said. But what
she does know is, “it’s very high in calories, high in carbs. It’s bad. So we encourage the kids to not drink that.”
Other grantees were the Wang YMCA,
Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Community Family Services, the South Cove
Manor, the Greater Boston Golden Age
Center, and the Asian American Civic
Association Sampan Health Page. All
are running programs on healthy living
and focus on illnesses from heart disease
to managing stress levels. Some of the
organizations even run classes like the
South Cove Manor’s Tai Chi and painting classes, and many of the organizations target elderly health care.
The organizations hold informational
sessions to gather interest before opening
up the application processes to potential
participants. Afterwards, candidates take
a pre-survey, which helps health practitioners evaluate potential participants’
lifestyle habits prior to partaking in the
program. The program ends with a postsurvey, allowing health practitioner to
measure participants’ progress as well as
judge the effectiveness of their programs.
At the Boston Asian Youth Essential
Service, 24 youths will be accepted into
the Obesity Prevention Program every
year for the next three years. So far, Britton is confident about the efficacy of the
Obesity Prevention Program. She says
the kids are enthusiastic and supportive
of each other.
“The kids are really good at enforcing
the policies on each other,” Britton said,
recalling a time when the youths talked
each other out of buying soda during one
of the program’s grocery store visits.
“The support system is one of the most
successful thing [about our program].”
Youths taking a Zumba class, one of the activities offerred in Obesity Prevention Program of
Boston Asian Youth Essential Service. (Image courtesy of Trinh Britton.)
includes education on nutrition, where
youths learn to make healthy food choices and prepare nutritious meals. “We
take them grocery shopping,” Britton
said. “We help them learn how to select
stuff, like how do you pick a good apple
or the right avocado you want for later in
the day.”
A part of making healthy choices is to
recognize bad choices, such as drinking
bubble tea, a product which leaves Britton questioning its ingredients. “Powder
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How do first-generation
Chinese Americans celebrate
August Moon Festival in America?
BY LING-MEI WONG
BY ELLEN DUONG
Many
Chinese
families
who
immigrate to the United States drop
several of their country’s traditions
in an effort to assimilate to American
culture and society. As a result, some
first-generation Chinese children grow
up very Westernized, having little
knowledge about their ethnic roots.
Although they may celebrate Lunar
New Year, other major Chinese holidays
such as the Mid-Autumn Festival and
the Dragonboat Festival are unknown to
them. Since the August Moon Festival
is just around the corner, I interviewed
three first-generation Chinese Americans
on how they observed this holiday in the
United States.
“My family is more traditional than
most, so we’ve always celebrated August
Moon,” said Karl Dong, a first-generation
Chinese American from Quincy, Mass.
“We get together at a round table for
dinner, eat mooncakes, drink tea and
look at the moon. It’s a family thing. I
see it as Chinese Thanksgiving.”
Justin Fang, another Chinese
American, also celebrated this holiday
during his childhood by eating mooncakes
with his family. He said, “August Moon
was a big thing when I was a kid. It
had a Chinese New Year feel. It was
the only other Chinese holiday that we
celebrated. I grew up around Boston, so
when [my brothers and I] were younger,
we’d go see the August Moon Festival in
Chinatown. Now that everyone is older
and busy, we don’t really do anything
anymore.”
When asked about whether they
knew about the history or folklore of
the holiday, however, both were unable
to answer with certainty. “I’m not
really sure; I think it has something to
do with the harvest season,” said Fang,
while Dong admitted that he has always
wondered about why many mooncake
boxes featured a goddess and a white
rabbit.
“The problem is that August Moon is
not an official holiday in America,” stated
Boston resident Kim Chan. Chan grew up
in Hong Kong, but has lived in the States
for over 40 years. “American schools
don’t teach students about August Moon
as they teach them about Thanksgiving
or Christmas. Also, in China and Hong
Kong, people get the day off, so it is easy
for family and friends to get together
and celebrate.” She also pointed out that
because mooncakes are available yearround in Asian bakeries in Chinatown,
“people don’t really see it as anything
special. In China and Hong Kong, you
could only get mooncakes during August
Moon.”
Dong, Fang and Chan have all been
to the August Moon street festivals
in Chinatown or Quincy. Chan is a
volunteer and board member of Quincy
Asian Resources Inc. (QARI), which is
responsible for organizing the event in
Quincy. They all remarked that the street
festivals provided a great venue and a
fun atmosphere for people of all ages to
get together. “From what I remember,”
said Fang, “there was a crowd of people
and lots of vendors selling all sorts of
things and food. I distinctly remember
a lady selling these egg pastries. They
were delicious.”
Dong commented fondly about the
exciting performances and lion dances.
“I really enjoyed watching the traditional
fan dances and listening to the Chinese
opera music.” However, Dong wished
that there were more plays to help
her better understand the folklore and
history behind August Moon. “I feel like
the festivals in Chinatown and Quincy
provide a great opportunity to learn
about Chinese culture, but I still leave
with many questions … like why is it
called the ‘Moon Festival?’”
Chan also remarked on how the
August Moon Festivals provided a great
venue to spread Chinese culture. “I’ve
noticed that more and more non-Asian
people are participating,” said Chan.
“People are more in tune to understanding
Chinese culture. It’s getting more and
more popular, and we are expanding.
Each year, we have a bigger space, and
we are enriching our content.”
All agreed that the street festivals
played an important part in helping
them remember the Chinese holiday,
especially now that these events are
publicized on social media. “But it’s also
the food,” Chan said. “People remember
August Moon because of the food.”
“More than anything,” said Fang,
“when I see a mooncake, that’s when I
know it is August Moon Festival time.”
This year, the August Moon Festival
will be held on Sunday, August 10, in
Chinatown and Sunday, August 17, in
Quincy.
Asian CDC golf tournament a success
BY THE ASIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
The Liberty Mutual Insurance Invitational 11th Annual Golf Getaway took place July 27 to 28
at the Lake Winnipesaukee Golf Club. The participation of this year’s golfers and their guests
helped AsianCDC raise $59,000. First place winners wre the foursome of Sean Hood, John
Kelly, Mike Ross and Chris Sharpe. (Image courtesy of the Asian Community Development
Corporation.)
Rows of mooncake boxes characterize August Moon Festival in Chinatown. (Image courtesy of
Ellen Duong.)
The evolution of August Moon
BY LING-MEI WONG
Boston’s Chinatown is one of the
oldest Chinatowns in the United States.
For those early immigrants who longed
for home, celebrating Chinese holidays
was a way to stay connected to their
heritage. However, while Lunar New
Year is almost always celebrated in
Chinese-American families today, other
holidays, such as the Mid-Autumn
Festival, or August Moon Festival, have
fallen out of Chinese-American tradition.
Beverly Wing of Tufts Medical
Center grew up in Chinatown. As a fifthgeneration Chinese American, her family
did not observe Chinese holidays apart
from Lunar New Year.
“My grandfather was born on
Harrison Avenue in 1896 and his father
was also a ‘jook sing,’ so our holiday
celebrations may reflect that history,”
Wing said. “Jook sing” is Toisanese for
“bamboo born,” referring to Chinese
born in America who look like “bamboo”
on the outside, but are devoid of Chinese
culture on the inside.
Long-time Chinatown resident Amy
Guen also remembers August Moon as
being a low-key event.
“I grew up in China during the [Second
World] War and spent most of the time in
boarding schools,” Guen said. “Back in
America, I started living in the suburbs
and only observed regular holidays.”
August Moon is traditionally
celebrated with mooncakes and fruit
as people celebrated the unity of
their families under the full moon. To
some Chinese Americans, however,
mooncakes became less of a traditional,
celebratory dessert and more of an
unfamiliar, exotic fare.
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“People did buy mooncakes from
New York,” Wing said. “[But] for ‘jook
sings,” those mooncakes were deadly
and often avoided.”
The August Moon Festival is a public
holiday in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong
and Korea, but not in America. Because
August 15 typically falls in September or
October according to the lunar calendar
— Sept. 8 for 2014 — when children
will already be back in school. Boston’s
Chinatown now rings in August Moon
on the second Sunday of August, while
Quincy celebrates its own August Moon
Festival on the third Sunday in August.
“My memories were that there were
no big community-wide celebrations
of August Moon until maybe the late
1970s or early 1980s, when they started
occurring on the parking lot between
Tyler and Harrison Avenue, with all kinds
of activities for kids such as carnival
rides, activity booths, performances and
much, much less commercialism,” Wing
said.
Guen has fond memories of the first
August Moon Festivals. “It was not until
we began having August Moon Festivals
in Chinatown that I started participating,
bringing my children to join in the yearly
fun. I think the first one was in 1970.”
Today, the August Moon Festival
is a major event in the Boston area,
attracting thousands of visitors every
year. As Lunar New Year falls in January
or February, New England winters can
wreak havoc on festivities. August Moon
in Chinatown is a great opportunity
to enjoy the Boston outdoors while
celebrating Chinese culture and tradition.
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Cantonese style mooncakes. (Image courtesy
of Wikimedia Commons.)
Taiwanese style mooncakes. (Image courtesy
of Bai Ji Bakery.)
Egg yolk pastries. (Image courtesy of Master
Wang Bakery of Yong Ho.)
“Ice skin” moon cakes. (Image courtesy of
Wing Wah.)
The Mid-Autumn Festival, also
referred to as August Moon Festival for
its lunar date of August 15, celebrates
the full harvest moon. Families gather
for moon watching and to enjoy quality
time together.
However, moon watching is no longer
the main event. Instead, moon cakes now
represent the holiday. There are four
traditional types of moon cake, which are
rich, decadent and caloric nightmares.
What’s inside a moon cake and how can
you watch your weight?
Moon cake is generally round and
stuffed, which are purchased as gifts
rather than for personal consumption. A
dough wrap is stuffed with sweet fillings
of lotus seed paste or red bean paste,
which encase nuts or salted egg yolks.
There are four different types of dough
used to wrap moon cake.
The most common moon cake is
the Cantonese style, with sweet fillings
wrapped in oily dough. Traditionally,
the wrapping dough consists of nearly
20 percent fat from pork fat or peanut
oil, along with flour, syrup, salt, baking
soda and water. A 150-gram or 5.3-ounce
Cantonese moon cake stuffed with a
salted egg yolk and lotus seed filling
clocks in at 500 calories, according to
a 2013 study conducted by the Taiwan
Health Promotion Administration’s
Ministry of Health and Welfare (HPA). A
150-gram or 5.3-ounce Cantonese moon
cake stuffed with date paste goes up to
620 calories.
Taiwanese moon cake also uses a
rich dough wrap made from butter or
pork fat, along with flour, syrup, milk
powder, salt, eggs, malt extract, baking
soda. A Taiwanese moon cake weighing
140 grams or 4.9 ounces is roughly 400
calories, according to the HPA study.
Egg yolk pastries are not technically
moon cakes, but are still given during
August Moon as stuffed pastries. The
dough wrap is also oily, with flour, sugar,
shortening, unsalted butter, water and
oil. The HPA study found an egg yolk
pastry weighing 60 grams or 2.1 ounces
is about 280 calories.
Finally, translucent “ice skin” moon
cake dough is made from powdered
sugar, shortening, cold water, and fried
rice powder. This newest iteration of
moon cake was found to be about 180
calories for a 60-gram or 2.1-ounce
moon cake.
All wrappers are high in fat and sugar,
making moon cake an indulgence. For
comparison, a bowl of rice is about
280 calories, making a Cantonese datestuffed moon cake equivalent to 2.2
bowls of rice.
Moon cakes are certainly a wonderful
treat. However, the HPA recommends
eating lighter meals if you indulge in a
moon cake. Happy August Moon!
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On July 26 and 27, Sifu Mai Du led
a team of 36 students with ages 6 to 40
plus to compete in the 26th annual U.S.
International Kuo Shu Championship
Tournament in Baltimore.
The United States Kuo Shou
Federation (U.S.K.S.F.) was founded
thirty-five years ago by Grandmaster
Huang Chian-Liang, and he continues to
serve as president. He sponsored the first
Kuo Shu tournament in the United States
in 1988.
Sifu Mai Du has run a Wah Lum Tam
Tui Northern Praying Mantis Kung Fu
& Tai Chi School in Malden, MA since
2006, and she has brought her students
to this competition in Baltimore since
2005. Sifu Du served as a Chief Judge
at this event
All of this year’s competitors practiced
diligently to be able to demonstrate their
kung fu prowess at the tournament.
They represented the cities of Malden,
Everett, Boston, Quincy, Andover,
Dover, Chelmsford, and Lynn. Everyone
was happy to have the opportunity to
compete again or as first timers and
to perform at their best. Ranking and
winning medals was an added bonus to
a humbling experience. The competitors
returned home with even more medals
than last year — 35 gold medals, 32
silver medals, 24 bronze, and 40-plus
medallion medals in a variety of kung fu,
tai chi, and sparring categories.
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有效的乳糖酶替代品。這些補充劑
人都能夠接受一定量的牛奶，所以
乳糖是一種糖，它被發現存在
補乳糖不耐症患者缺乏的化酶，讓
 About
224,210 new cases of
人都能夠接受一定量的牛奶，所以
於牛奶和牛奶製品中。乳糖被一種
補乳糖不耐症患者缺乏的化酶，讓
不需要完全避免食用牛奶或牛奶製
於牛奶和牛奶製品中。乳糖被一種
他們能夠消化乳糖食品而且減少或
lung cancer
(116,000
in men and 108,210
不需要完全避免食用牛奶或牛奶製
酶，這種酶被稱為乳糖分解酵素（
他們能夠消化乳糖食品而且減少或
酶，這種酶被稱為乳糖分解酵素（ 品。研究建議，患有乳糖不耐症的
去除副作用。在使用這些非處方藥
in women)
品。研究建議，患有乳糖不耐症的
存在於小腸中），分解為更細小的
去處副作用。在使用這些非處方藥
人可以每日飲用一杯牛奶（約240毫
物前，請與您的醫生諮詢一下。因
 存在於小腸中），分解為更細小的
An estimated 159,260 deaths
人可以每日飲用一杯牛奶（約240毫
能被人體吸收的糖。
物前，請與您的醫生咨詢一下。因
升）。
能被人體吸收的糖。
為有一些人群是不能使用該類藥物
from lung
cancer (86,930 in men and
升）。
為有一些人群是不能使用該類藥物
的，例如，嬰幼兒、孕婦、以及正
72,330 among women), accounting for
有哪些症狀？
的，例如，嬰幼兒、孕婦、以及正
如果我被懷疑有乳糖不耐症，為什
在母乳哺育的婦女。
about 27有哪些症狀？
percent of all cancer deaths
梁爾尊醫師（右）幫一位病人做氫氣呼吸測 在母乳哺育的婦女。
如果我被懷疑有乳糖不耐症，為什
1.
腹脹、腹部感覺飽滿或腫
梁爾尊醫師（右）幫一位病人做氫氣呼吸測
麼不簡單的避免接觸牛奶？
1.腹脹、腹部感覺飽滿或腫脹
Smoking
is one of the causes of lung cancer. (Image courtesy
of Flickr.)
試，該測試評估鑑定乳糖不耐症。（圖片由
麼不簡單的避免接觸牛奶？
脹
Lung cancer
is by far the leading
因為，牛奶是一種鈣質和維他 試，該測試評估鑑定乳糖不耐症。（圖片由 關於作者
2.腹部疼痛
梁爾尊醫師提供。）
因為，牛奶是一種鈣質和維他
2.腹部疼痛
關於作者
Most
lung cancers
do not cause any ored梁爾尊醫師提供。）
sputum (spit or phlegm)
body,
due
spreading
skin
cause of cancer
death
among both men
梁to爾cancer
尊醫師
是 過 敏to
症the
專科
醫
命D的良好來源，這兩種物質都對人
3.腹瀉、痢疾
梁爾尊
醫 師(collections
是 過 敏 症 專of科im醫
命D的良好來源，這兩種物質都對人
3.
腹瀉、痢疾
他命D的攝入量：
until they have spread too
 Shortness
of breath
or 師，免疫學家，和腸胃病學家。梁
to lymph
nodes
and women. Each
year, more people die symptoms
體的健康很重要。那些完全避免牛
4.腸胃脹氣
•不是乳製品的維他命D來源
師，免疫學家，和腸胃病學家。梁
• 不是乳製品的維他命D來源
be 體的健康很重要。那些完全避免牛
cured, but symptoms do occur

Feeling
tired or weak
mune
system cells) in the neck or above
of lung cancer than4.腸胃脹氣
of colon, breast and far to 奶的人可能沒辦法從其他來源獲得
醫師會說廣東話。預約專線：617包括：鮭魚、金槍魚、鱈魚、馬鮫
醫師會說廣東話。預約專線：617奶的人可能沒辦法從其他來源獲得
包括：鮭魚、金槍魚、鱈魚、馬鮫
in some
people with early lung cancer.

Infections such as bronchitis the636-5333。ChristiannaMoran是理
collarbone
prostate cancers combined.
足夠的鈣質，如果他們沒有食用富
魚、蝦、蛋、以及牛奶替代品麥片
乳糖不耐症多普遍？
636-5333。Christianna Moran是理
魚、蝦、蛋、以及牛奶替代品麥片
go足夠的鈣質，如果他們沒有食用富
to your doctor when you first and 被強化了維他命D。
pneumonia
that don’t go away or
Lung cancer mainly
occurs in older If you含鈣質的食物或鈣片。
學碩士，註冊營養師，註冊營養學
乳糖不耐症多普遍？
患病率
學碩士，註冊營養師，註冊營養學
含鈣質的食物或鈣片。
被強化了維他命D。
your cancer might be keep coming
back
Most of the symptoms listed above are
people. About 2 out of 3 people 族裔
diag- notice symptoms,
•至於鈣質來源有，那些被強 家及註冊營養師。預約專線：617患病率
族裔
at
an
earlier
stage,
when
treat
New
onset
of
wheezing
more
likely to be caused by conditions
家及註冊營養師。預約專線：
617•
至於鈣質來源有，那些被強
nosed with lung90%
cancer are 65 or 亞裔
older; diagnosed
患有乳糖不耐症的人需要注意那些 化的果汁、牛奶替代品、麥片、和 636-3266。RebeccaStanski是營養
90%of all cases are
亞裔ment is more
likely
to
be
effective.
The
other
than
lung
cancer.
Still,
if
you
have
fewer than 2 percent
636-3266。Rebecca
Stanski是營養
患有乳糖不耐症的人需要注意那些
化的果汁、牛奶替代品、麥片、和
事項？
麵包。還有那些有益健康的食物， 飲食實習生。
70%
黑人
symptoms
of
lung
cancer
If
lung
cancer
spreads
to
distant
orany
of
these
problems,
it’s
important
to
found in people younger
飲食實習生。
事項？
麵包。還有那些有益健康的食物，
70% than 45. The
黑人most common
1.限制乳糖的攝入，但完全避 例如：帶骨鮭魚罐頭、豆腐、西蘭
西班牙裔
are:
gans,
it
may
cause:
see
your
doctor
right
away
so
the
cause
average age at 50%
the time
of
diagnosis
is
1.限制乳糖的攝入，但完全避
例如：帶骨鮭魚罐頭、豆腐、西蘭
50%
西班牙裔 免乳糖是不必要的。
花、赤糖糊、甘藍菜、杏仁、蕪菁
20%
白人
花、赤糖糊、甘藍菜、杏仁、蕪菁
Bone pain (like pain in the back can be found and treated, if needed.
about 70.
免乳糖是不必要的。
2.相比一杯牛奶，硬質奶酪（
葉、小白菜、以及海帶。
20%
白人  A cough that does not go away or hips)
Overall, the chance
that a man will de2.相比一杯牛奶，硬質奶酪（ 葉、小白菜、以及海帶。
—文章由劉維佳翻譯
例如:切達奶酪和瑞士奶酪）和酸奶
 Nervous system changes (such
velop lung
cancer in his lifetime is about or gets worse
如何診斷乳糖不耐症？
—文章由劉維佳翻譯
如，切達奶酪和瑞士奶酪）和酸奶
都是更容易被人體接納的。他們也
什麼是無乳糖牛奶？

Chest
pain that is often worse as headache,
weakness or numbness of
1 in 13; for a如何診斷乳糖不耐症？
woman, the risk is about 1
除了病史以及身體檢查外，醫
都是更容易被人體接納的。他們也
什麼是無乳糖牛奶？
是很好的蛋白質、鈣質及維他命D來
除了病史以及身體檢查外，醫
breathing, coughing or laugh- an arm or無乳糖牛奶及牛奶製品是在製
leg,
dizziness, balance probin 16. These
numbers include both smok- with deep是很好的蛋白質、鈣質及維他命D來
生還可能通過一種簡單的氫氣呼吸
無乳糖牛奶及牛奶製品是在製
造過程中運用乳糖酶預消化以達到
生還可能通過一種簡單的氫氣呼吸
lems,
or
seizures)
ers and測試來確診乳糖不耐症。這個測試
non-smokers.
For smokers the ing 源。
源。
造過程中運用乳糖酶預消化以達到
3.確認你有充足的鈣質與維他 
降低或消除乳糖的含量。在大部分
測試來確診乳糖不耐症。這個測試
 Hoarseness
Jaundice (yellowing of the skin
risk is much
higher, while for nonsmok用乳糖前後的呼出氣中的氫氣量。
3.
確認你有充足的鈣質與維
降低或消除乳糖的含量。在大部分
命D的攝入量：
超市都可以購買到無乳糖牛奶及牛
測服用入乳糖前後的呼出氣中的氫

Weight
loss
and
loss
of
appetite
and
eyes)
ers the risk
is
lower.
通常只有非常小的氫氣被發現在呼
 Coughing up blood or rust-col Lumps near the surface of the
How nutritious is
August Moon pomelo?
BY LING-MEI WONG
Pomelo is a staple for Mid-Autumn Festival. (Image courtesy of Flickr.)
Growing up in Taipei, my family celebrated Mid-Autumn Festival with a moonlit picnic on our apartment building’s roof.
There would always be tea, moon cakes
and pomelo, as we gazed at the moon and
enjoyed being together. The fragrance of
pomelo brings back many happy memories.
Pomelo is seasonal, almost tasting like
a sweet grapefruit. It is a citrus fruit with a
thick rind that makes for a bright green helmet. As a citrus fruit, it can also be eaten in
sections. Three to four pomelo sections are
about 60 calories. While this is nowhere
near the calorie count of a moon cake, do
be mindful of how much pomelo you consume.
A pomelo has three times the vitamin C
of a lemon and eight times that of an apple.
It also has calcium, protein and fiber.
Consuming 100 grams of pomelo will
include110 milligrams of potassium, or
about a third of one’s recommended daily
dosage, according to the Taiwan Ministry
of Health and Welfare. For individuals
with kidney problems, they should watch
their intake of pomelo carefully.
Fiber in pomelo is tough to digest, so
individuals with ulcers and other stomachrelated issues should eat less. It also reacts
with antihistamines, with possible side effects including headache and heart palpitations.
Pomelo is largely beneficial, although
its nutritional properties are not for everyone. The mild flavor is unlike anything else
and makes it an August Moon staple.
Social Self-Management of Parkinson’s
Disease Research Study
• Tufts University, in collaboration with Boston University
Medical Center, is excited to announce a new study
exploring how social activities, relationships, and health
change over time for people with Parkinson’s disease.
• Participate in in-person and telephone interviews
individually or with your care giver over a 3-year period.
• You will receive a maximum of $350. This payment
will be broken down by interview ($50/interview).
If you are interested in participating, contact:
Dr. Marie Saint-Hilaire, MD and
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11
Sampan HEALTH
August 8, 2014
The important of liver cancer screening
in patients with Hepatitis B
BY JOHN LEUNG, MD, KATHLEEN COLEMAN, NP AND DEAN EHRLICH
Hepatitis B is a very common infection in people of Asian descent. It is a
viral infection that affects the liver and
is often passed along during childbirth,
but is also spread by sexual contact, intravenous drug use or other places where
you might get exposed to the blood of
an infected person. In the some cases,
hepatitis B infection inherited as an infant will cause no harm during an entire
lifetime. However, many people do not
realize that even if Hepatitis B is not actively making you feel sick. Or a health
care provider has told you your virus is
not active. Hepatitis B can still cause the
most common type of liver cancer, called
Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC). The
World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that in 2005 there were 700,000
deaths from HCC, half of which were related to Hepatitis B.
Ultrasound is a safe technology that
uses sound waves that allows visualization of the liver to look for early signs
of cancer in the liver. It is similar to how
a ship uses sonar to see the ocean floor.
This is important because earlier diagnosis of HCC has been shown to decrease
death rates in patients with HCC. Given
the relationship between Hepatitis B and
HCC, doctors are now recommending
regular screening ultrasounds in patients
who have tested positive for Hepatitis B.
Additionally your health care provider may recommend a blood test called
AFP or Alpha Feto-protein. This is also
he finally presented to the hospital with
jaundice (yellowing of the skin), a liver
cancer was found on a CT scan. Sadly,
the cancer had already spread beyond
his liver. His prognosis is unfortunately
very poor with this advanced stage of
the cancer. This is a perfect example of
somebody who would have benefitted
from regular screening using ultrasound
and AFP. If you or someone you know has hepatitis B, please discuss with your caregiver the importance of HCC screening
even if you feel well. If there is a family
history of hepatitis B and liver cancer,
your risk may be higher and screening
could save your life.
Image courtesy of the World Health Organization public database of human cancers.
referred to as a “tumor marker.” This test
will often rise when there are very fast
growing cells such as seen in tumors.
These tests in combination (ultrasound
and AFP) can help your doctor catch early cancers before you ever feel ill. The American Association for the
Study of Liver Diseases recommends
screening ultrasounds for those at risk
(people with viral hepatitis or other
known liver disease) every six months.
These ultrasounds in people at risk for
HCC but who do not have HCC are
called “surveillance” ultrasounds. Ultrasound is able to detect the early stages
of HCC. When HCC is caught early,
there are many more treatment options
and survival rates are very high. All patients with a history of hepatitis B infection are encouraged to bring this up with
their doctor. A simple blood test can tell
if Hepatitis B is still a risk for you or if
your body has already cleared the virus
in the past.
The importance of ultrasound screening surveillance was apparent with a recent patient seen in the hospital. The patient was an adult male, who emigrated
from China about 10 years ago. He had
been diagnosed with hepatitis B in China. He has a very nice family and was
otherwise healthy and generally feeling
well. Because he felt well, he did not follow up regularly with his doctor. When
Quick facts about hepatitis B and
hepatocellular carcinoma
Hepatitis B
350 million
Worldwide
people
Hepatitis B in
120 million
China
people
Hepatocellular
3rd leading cancer
Carcinoma (Liver
worldwide
Cancer)
Hepatocellular
Greater than 50%
Carcinoma
survival at 5 years
detected by
screening
HCC detected late 0-10% survival at
(after symptoms
5 year
start)
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