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English Abstract Global Activity of Cancer Registries and Cancer Control and Cancer Incidence Statistics in Korea.
Hai Rim Shin
Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health 2008;41(2):84-91
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3961/jpmph.2008.41.2.84
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Data Analysis and Interpretation Group, Biostatistics and Epidemiology Cluster International Agency for Research on Cancer, Korea Central Cancer Registry, National Cancer Center, Korea. shinhr@iarc.fr

The World Health Organization (WHO) reported that cancer killed 7.6 million people in the world in 2005, and that 40% of all cancer deaths can be prevented. According to the WHO Global Action Plan Against Cancer (GAPAC), monitoring of cancer patients is the essential part of cancer control, and should be conducted through cancer registration. Originally, cancer registries were primarily concerned with the description of cancer patterns, trends of cancer occurrence, and etiology of cancer. In the last 20 years, cancer registries provided not only information on the incidence and characteristics of specific cancers, but also supplied the source of cancer control planning and evaluation and the care of individual cancer patients with survival. Cancer Incidence in Five Continents (CI5) presents incidence data from populations all over the world every five year. Volume IX in the series (data for 1998-2002) has recently (November 2007) been published online at International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC). Nine data from Korea Central Cancer Registry (National data), Seoul, Busan, Daegu, Gwangju, Incheon, Daejeon, Usan, Jejudo regional cancer registries were included in that volume. In this paper, the editorial process, the characteristics of national data, and quality indices in CI5 IX are being described. In addition, cancer control activities related to cancer registration in some selected countries are also presented.

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