Cai Jianping, Yang Lida, Liu Zhenhong, Ma Zhiyong, Liu Yu
Fourth Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Yiyuan Road 37, Nangang District, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province 150001, People's Republic of China.
Support Care Cancer. 2009 Apr;17(4):329-32. doi: 10.1007/s00520-008-0494-1. Epub 2008 Aug 15.
Nowadays China has the largest population in the world. A recent epidemiology investigation has shown that cancer is the main cause of mortality, ahead of heart and cerebrovascular diseases. However, the information from Chinese newspaper reports on cancer is not completely clear. The present study is, therefore, designed to investigate the number and content of published news stories focused on cancers from 2000 to 2007 in China main newspapers.
A content analysis was performed on cancer articles in a database of important Chinese newspapers, with "cancer" or "leukemia" in title taken as keywords.
The total 7,643 of 7,903,117 articles were about cancer from 2000 to 2007. The number of published articles related to cancer every year increased on the whole. Women's cancers, such as breast cancer and cervical cancer, garner more attention than other carcinomas. Prevention and treatment were always the main points in cancer-related articles.
In the past eight years, Chinese main newspapers have significantly increased the number of cancer-related reports and paid more attention to women's cancers.
当今中国是世界上人口最多的国家。最近一项流行病学调查显示，癌症是主要死因，位居心脑血管疾病之前。然而，中国报纸上有关癌症的信息并不完全清晰。因此，本研究旨在调查2000年至2007年中国主要报纸上发表的聚焦癌症的新闻报道数量及内容。
对重要中文报纸数据库中的癌症相关文章进行内容分析，以标题中含有“癌症”或“白血病”作为关键词。
2000年至2007年的7903117篇文章中，共有7643篇与癌症相关。每年发表的与癌症相关的文章数量总体呈上升趋势。乳腺癌和宫颈癌等女性癌症比其他癌症更受关注。预防和治疗一直是癌症相关文章的重点。
在过去八年中，中国主要报纸显著增加了癌症相关报道的数量，并更加关注女性癌症。
