Cancer Treatment and Survival Site-Specific Registries in Japan

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CRC Press, Nov 9, 1995 - Medical - 239 pages
In Japan, the diagnosis and effects of treatment of cancer patients is tracked and evaluated through a registry of the patients. Rather than a demographic or population-based tracking, the Japanese medical community has developed a number of site-specific cancer registries. The registries are administered by the research group or association of medical specialists for the site-specific area. Their promotion of the registries has resulted in national improvements in the diagnosis, surgical techniques, and treatments for cancer.
This monograph provides, from each site-specific registration committee, a description, history, number of patients and their clinical characteristics, survival rates by TNM stage, and their time trends in relation to the development of diagnostic methods and elaboration of new treatment. Through greater knowledge has come greater understanding for the medical community of the current diagnostic and therapeutic results for many Japanese cancer patients.
 

Contents

Preface
1
Head and Neck Cancer Registry The Japanese Joint Committee
9
Thyroid Cancer Registry Japan Society of Thyroid Surgery
29
Statistics of Esophageal Cancer Registry
39
An Analysis of Nationwide
47
A General View of Large Bowel Cancer in Japan
57
Registry of Familial Adenomatous Polyposis
69
Primary Liver Cancer in Japan The Liver Cancer Study Group of Japan
81
Bone Tumor Registration Musculoskeletal Tumor Committee
129
Statistics of Malignant Melanoma The Japanese Skin Cancer Society
147
Clinical Statistics on Registered Breast Cancer Patients in Japan
159
Registration of Gynecologic Malignancies
169
Statistics of Bladder Cancer Registry 19821987
181
General Features
191
Outline Results and Perspectives
203
List of Hospitals Participating to the Registries
213

Statistics Registry of Biliary Tract Cancer
97
The Present Status of Pancreatic Cancer Registration
107
Time Trends and Survival Rate of Lung Cancer
119

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