Determinant Factors on Differences in Survival for Gastric Cancer Between the United States and Japan Using Nationwide Databases.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although the incidence and mortality have decreased, gastric cancer (GC) is still a public health issue globally. An international study reported higher survival in Korea and Japan than other countries, including the United States. We examined the determinant factors of the high survival in Japan compared with the United States.

Methods

We analysed data on 78,648 cases from the nationwide GC registration project, the Japanese Gastric Cancer Association (JGCA), from 2004-2007 and compared them with 16,722 cases from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program (SEER), a United States population-based cancer registry data from 2004-2010. We estimated 5-year relative survival and applied a multivariate excess hazard model to compare the two countries, cons

SUBMITTER: Ito Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7940976 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature