Kim Young Chul, Won Young Joo
Division 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.
Tuberc Respir Dis (Seoul). 2019 Apr;82(2):91-93. doi: 10.4046/trd.2018.0032. Epub 2018 Sep 28.
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.
肺癌是全球最常被诊断出的癌症，也是癌症相关死亡的主要原因。2012年，全球估计有180万新发病例和159万例死亡病例。在韩国，肺癌发病率呈上升趋势，2015年韩国中央癌症登记处登记了24267例（47.6/10万）肺癌患者。韩国结核病和呼吸疾病学会曾在1998年、韩国肺癌协会（KALC）曾在2007年进行过全国范围的肺癌调查，但由于《个人信息保护法》的限制，这些研究在维持肺癌登记方面面临困难。为了生成无偏差且可靠的流行病学数据，KALC和韩国中央癌症登记处开发了详细的肺癌登记（KALC-R）数据结构。在2013年对489例肺癌病例进行试点调查后，每年对韩国中央癌症登记处抽取的约10%的肺癌病例样本进行调查。通过对KALC-R详细数据的分析，有望为科研或政策制定提供重要的流行病学背景。
