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Trend Analysis for the Choice and Cost of Lung Cancer Treatment in South Korea, 2003-2013
Dohun Kim, So Young Kim, Beomseok Suh, Jong Hyock Park
Cancer Res Treat. 2018;50(3):757-767.   Published online September 4, 2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4143/crt.2017.050
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Purpose
Our study aimed to report the annual changes in lung cancer statistics and analyze trends in sociodemographic, medical, and financial factors from 2003 to 2013 in the national database from the Korean National Health Insurance (KNHI).
Materials and Methods
Among 7,489 patients with code C34 in KNHI database, only lung cancer patients newly diagnosed after 2003 were included in the study population, for a total of 4,582 patients. Descriptive statistics were used to characterize treatment patterns and medical costs according to sociodemographic factors.
Results
Approximately 70% of subjects were male, and the mean age was 67 years. Around 46% of patients were over 70 years old, and 12% were over 80 years old. The medical costs were highest for patients younger than 60 and lowest for those over 80 years old. Surgery was more common in younger patients, while “no treatment” increased greatly with age. In trend analysis, the proportions of aging (p for trend < 0.001), female (p for trend=0.003), metropolitan/urban (p for trend=0.041), and lowest or highest-income patients (p for trend=0.004) increased over time, along with the prevalence of surgery as the primary treatment (p for trend < 0.001). There was also a trend with regard to change in medical costs (p for trend < 0.001), in that those of surgery and radiotherapy increased.
Conclusion
Surgery as a curative treatment has increased over the past decade. However, the elderly, suburban/rural residents, and low-income patients were more likely to be untreated. Therefore, active measures are required for these increasingly vulnerable groups.

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    Wenzhi Zhu, Jiaonan Yang, Xiaoyi Wang, Xinqiang Ji, Hongyu Tan
    International Journal of General Medicine.2024; Volume 17: 5453.     CrossRef
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    Dohun Kim, Gil‐Won Kang, Hoyeon Jang, Jun Yeun Cho, Bumhee Yang, Hee Chul Yang, Jinwook Hwang
    Thoracic Cancer.2022; 13(2): 210.     CrossRef
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    Dohun Kim, Jung-Won Lee
    Journal of Chest Surgery.2022; 55(1): 1.     CrossRef
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    Kyu-Tae Han, Jongwha Chang, Dong-Woo Choi, Seungju Kim, Dong Jun Kim, Yoon-Jung Chang, Sun Jung Kim
    BMC Cancer.2022;[Epub]     CrossRef
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    Kyu-Tae Han, Woorim Kim, Areum Song, Yeong Jun Ju, Dong-Woo Choi, Seungju Kim
    Health Policy.2021; 125(8): 1047.     CrossRef
  • Estimating the disease burden of lung cancer attributable to residential radon exposure in Korea during 2006–2015: A socio-economic approach
    Juhwan Noh, Heeseon Jang, Jaelim Cho, Dae Ryong Kang, Tae Hyun Kim, Dong Chun Shin, Changsoo Kim
    Science of The Total Environment.2020; 749: 141573.     CrossRef
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Patterns of Care for Radiotherapy in the Neoadjuvant and Adjuvant Treatment of Gastric Cancer: A Twelve-Year Nationwide Cohort Study in Korea
Jee Suk Chang, Young Choi, Jaeyong Shin, Kyung Hwan Kim, Ki Chang Keum, Hyo Song Kim, Woong Sub Koom, Eun-Cheol Park
Cancer Res Treat. 2018;50(1):118-128.   Published online March 8, 2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4143/crt.2016.575
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Purpose
Although Korea has the highest incidence of gastric cancer worldwide and D2-lymphadenectomies are routinely performed, radiotherapy (RT) practice patterns have not been well studied. Therefore, we examined RT usage trends for neoadjuvant/adjuvant patients and identified factors associated with RT. We also examined survival benefits and net medical cost advantages of adding RT.
Materials and Methods
Patients diagnosed with gastric cancer who underwent gastrectomy from 2002-2013 were identified using National Health Insurance Service-National Sample Cohort.
Results
Annually, 30.9 cases per 100,000 population in crude rate underwent gastrectomy in 230 hospitals and 49.8% received neoadjuvant/adjuvant therapy in 182 hospitals. For neoadjuvant/adjuvant patients, postoperative chemo-RT was administered in 4% of cases in 26 hospitals. No significant trends regarding treatment type were observed over time. Having undergone RT was inversely associated with being ≥ 60 years old and having a low income. Having undergone RT was positively related to having a Charlson comorbidity index ≥ 4, hospital location and hospital volume (≥ 2,000 beds). Significant portions of patients treated with RT in this nation (52%) were concentrated in one large-volume hospital. Use of RT linked to increased cost of primary treatment, yet not to reduced overall medical expense. RT did not influence both on overall and disease-specific survivals after adjusting for potential confounders (p > 0.05).
Conclusion
RT was uncommonly utilized as adjuvant or neoadjuvant treatment by physicians in Korea. Despite intrinsic drawback in this data, we did not find either survival benefit or net medical cost advantage by adding RT in adjuvant treatment.

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    Journal of Oncology.2020; 2020: 1.     CrossRef
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    Oncotarget.2018; 9(2): 1726.     CrossRef
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