The Development of the Korean Lung Cancer Registry (KALC-R)
Lung cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer and the leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide. Globally, there were an estimated 1.8 million new cases and 1.59 million deaths in 2012. In Korea, the incidence of lung cancer is increasing and 24,267 (47.6/100,000) patients with lung cance...
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| description | Lung cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer and the leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide. Globally, there were an estimated 1.8 million new cases and 1.59 million deaths in 2012. In Korea, the incidence of lung cancer is increasing and 24,267 (47.6/100,000) patients with lung cancer were registered at the Korea Central Cancer Registry in 2015. Previous nationwide surveys of lung cancer were performed in 1998 by the Korean Academy of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases and in 2007 by the Korean Association for Lung Cancer (KALC), but the studies faced difficulties in maintaining lung cancer registry because of limitations regarding the Private Information Protection Act. To produce unbiased and reliable epidemiological data, the KALC and Korean Central Cancer Registry developed a detailed lung cancer registry (KALC-R) data structure. Following a pilot survey of 489 lung cancer cases in 2013, about 10% of the sampled lung cancer cases from the Korean Central Cancer Registry are surveyed each year. With the analysis of detailed data from the KALC-R, an important epidemiological background for scientific research or policy development is expected to be generated. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-bc645c66675342ebb027e1c578909d982022-12-22T01:00:10ZengThe Korean Academy of Tuberculosis and Respiratory DiseasesTuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases1738-35362005-61842019-04-018229193The Development of the Korean Lung Cancer Registry (KALC-R)Young-Chul Kim, M.D., Ph.D.0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7019-7687Young-Joo Won, Ph.D.1Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Chonnam National University Hwasun Hospital, Chonnam National University Medical School, Hwasun, Korea.Cancer Registration and Statistics Branch, National Cancer Center, Goyang, Korea.Lung cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer and the leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide. Globally, there were an estimated 1.8 million new cases and 1.59 million deaths in 2012. In Korea, the incidence of lung cancer is increasing and 24,267 (47.6/100,000) patients with lung cancer were registered at the Korea Central Cancer Registry in 2015. Previous nationwide surveys of lung cancer were performed in 1998 by the Korean Academy of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases and in 2007 by the Korean Association for Lung Cancer (KALC), but the studies faced difficulties in maintaining lung cancer registry because of limitations regarding the Private Information Protection Act. To produce unbiased and reliable epidemiological data, the KALC and Korean Central Cancer Registry developed a detailed lung cancer registry (KALC-R) data structure. Following a pilot survey of 489 lung cancer cases in 2013, about 10% of the sampled lung cancer cases from the Korean Central Cancer Registry are surveyed each year. With the analysis of detailed data from the KALC-R, an important epidemiological background for scientific research or policy development is expected to be generated.https://www.e-trd.org/search.php?where=aview&id=10.4046/trd.2018.0032&code=0003TRD&vmode=FULLlung neoplasmsregistriessmokers |
| spellingShingle | Young-Chul Kim, M.D., Ph.D. Young-Joo Won, Ph.D. The Development of the Korean Lung Cancer Registry (KALC-R) Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases lung neoplasms registries smokers |
| title | The Development of the Korean Lung Cancer Registry (KALC-R) |
| title_full | The Development of the Korean Lung Cancer Registry (KALC-R) |
| title_fullStr | The Development of the Korean Lung Cancer Registry (KALC-R) |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Development of the Korean Lung Cancer Registry (KALC-R) |
| title_short | The Development of the Korean Lung Cancer Registry (KALC-R) |
| title_sort | development of the korean lung cancer registry kalc r |
| topic | lung neoplasms registries smokers |
| url | https://www.e-trd.org/search.php?where=aview&id=10.4046/trd.2018.0032&code=0003TRD&vmode=FULL |
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