BACKGROUND AND AIMS The National Cancer Screening Program (NCSP) for liver cancer was initiated in 2003 in Korea. The objective of this study was to evaluate the participation rate of the program and to provide preliminary information on its results based on data collected by the NCSP in 2009. METHODS The target population of the NCSP for liver cancer in 2009 was comprised of 373,590 adults a...

This work was supported by grants from the American Gastroenterological Association Research Scholar Award (JKL), and from the National Cancer Institute (U54 CA163262) Colorectal cancer remains a public health burden in the United States. Although randomized controlled trials have demonstrated that screening reduces colorectal cancer incidence and mortality, a large proportion of Americans rema...

OBJECTIVE to carry out a situational analysis of cervical cancer prevention activities in Argentina, specifically regarding (a) the organizational framework of cervical cancer prevention activities; (b) Pap-smear coverage; (c) cytology laboratory organization; and (d) follow-up/treatment of women with abnormal lesions. METHODS a situational analysis of provincial cervical cancer programs usin...

Cancer is the most common cause of death in Korea (Statistics Korea, 2011). In 2009, 69,780 people died of cancer, accounting for 28.3% of all deaths in Korea. That year, the incidence was 398.9 per 100,000 men and 376.9 per 100,000 women; it had increased rapidly from 1999 to 2009, growing annually by 3.3% (Jung et al., 2012). Because of the high incidence of cancer, the Korean National Cancer...

BACKGROUND Skin cancer is the most common form of cancer in the United States. Melanoma skin cancer is particularly deadly; more than 8000 US residents die from it each year. Although recent reports suggest that melanoma incidence rates have been increasing, these apparent increases could be caused by an increase in reporting and/or screening, and by an actual increase in the occurrence of mela...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to examine how income-related inequalities in screening services for gastric and colorectal cancer in Korea have changed over the past decades, along with the implementation of the national cancer screening program, and also to quantify each contribution from various socio-demographic factors income-related inequalities with respect to these cancer screening services...

This goal of this research was to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of the National Cancer Screening Program (NCSP) for breast cancer in the Republic of Korea from a government expenditure perspective. In 2002-2003 (baseline), a total of 8,724,860 women aged 40 years or over were invited to attend breast cancer screening by the NCSP. Those who attended were identified using the NCSP database, and...

The Medical Journal of Australia ISSN: 0025729X 19 March 2007 186 6 280-281 ©The Medical Journal of Australia 2007 www.mja.com.au Colorectal Cancer — Editorial results. Follow-up and management will be deliv “usual care”, without any program-specific funding. affect the health care system? The crux of the problem is that the Australian program — initially, the offer of an FOBT to Australia or 6...

aim : the aim of this study was to evaluate the mortality rates and trends from gastrointestinal (gi) cancer in iranian population from 1995 to 2003. background : cancer is the third most common cause of death in iran. gastrointestinal cancer is the most important causes of mortality due to cancer. the cancer mortality data is important to monitor the effects of screening program, earlier diagn...