Incidence and Overall Survival of Biliary Tract Cancers in South Korea from 2006 to 2015: Using the National Health Information Database

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Abstract

Background/Aims

There have been no nationwide studies to investigate the trends in incidence and 5-year survival rates of intra- and extrahepatic bile duct cancers and gall-bladder cancer. Therefore, our study aimed to describe the incidence and 5-year survival rates of biliary tract cancers by subsites in South Korea.

Methods

A total of 86,134 patients with biliary tract cancers were selected from the National Health Information Database. Age-standardized incidence rates and annual percentage changes were calculated. Life-table methods and log-rank tests were used to determine the differences in survival rates. Cox-proportional hazard models were used to estimate the hazard ratio of the patients with biliary tract cancers.

Results

The incidence rate of intra-hepatic bile duct cancer decreased by 1.3% annually from 8.8 per 100,000 in 2006 to 7.8 per 100,000 in 2015. Extrahepatic bile duct cancer also showed a decreasing trend by 2.2% per year from 8.7 per 100,000 in 2006 to 6.7 per 100,000 in 2015. Gallbladder cancer showed the greatest decline, with an annual percentage change of 2.8% from 6.3 per 100,000 to 5.2 per 100,000 during the same period. The 5-year survival rates were 30.0% in gallbladder cancer, 27.8% in extrahepatic bile duct cancer, and 15.9% in intra-hepatic bile duct cancer.

Conclusions

The overall incidence rates of intrahepatic and extrahepatic bile duct cancer and gallbladder cancer decreased from 2006 to 2015. Among biliary tract cancers, intrahepatic bile duct cancers exhibited the highest incidence rate and the worst survival rate.

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Data Resource Profile: The National Health Information Database of the National Health Insurance Service in South Korea

Sang Cheol Seong, Yeon-Yong Kim, Young-Ho Khang … (2016)

Data resource basics The National Health Information Database (NHID) is a public database on health care utilization, health screening, socio-demographic variables, and mortality for the whole population of South Korea, formed by the National Health Insurance Service. The population included in the data is over 50 million, and the participation rate in the health screening programs was 74.8% in 2014. The NHID covers data between 2002 and 2014. Those insured by NHI pay insurance contributions and receive medical services from their health care providers. The NHIS, as the single insurer, pays costs based on the billing records of health care providers (Figure 1). To govern and carry out these processes in the NHI, the NHIS built a data warehouse to collect the required information on insurance eligibility, insurance contributions, medical history, and medical institutions. In 2012, the NHIS formed the NHID using information from medical treatment and health screening records and eligibility data from an existing database system. Figure 1. The governance of the National Health Insurance of South Korea. Data collected The eligibility database includes information about income-based insurance contributions, demographic variables, and date of death. The national health screening database includes information on health behaviors and bio-clinical variables. The health care utilization database includes information on records on inpatient and outpatient usage (diagnosis, length of stay, treatment costs, services received) and prescription records (drug code, days prescribed, daily dosage). The long-term care insurance database includes information about activities of daily living and service grades. The health care provider database includes data about the types of institutions, human resources, and equipment. In the NHID, de-identified join keys replacing the personal identifiers are used to interlink these databases. Data resource use Papers published covered various diseases or health conditions like infectious diseases, cancer, cardiovascular diseases, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and injuries and risk factors such as smoking, alcohol consumption, and obesity. The impacts of health care and public health policies on health care utilization have been also explored since the data include all the necessary information reflecting patterns of health care utilization. Reasons to be cautious First, information on diagnosis and disease may not be optimal for identifying disease occurrence and prevalence since the data have been collected for medical service claims and reimbursement. However, the NHID also collects prescription data with secondary diagnosis, so the accuracy of the disease information can be improved. Second, the data linkage with other secondary national data is not widely available due to privacy issues in Korea. Governmental discussions on the statutory reform of data linkage using the NHID are under way. Collaboration and data access Access to the NHID can be obtained through the Health Insurance Data Service home page (http://nhiss.nhis.or.kr). An ethics approval from the researchers’ institutional review board is required with submission of a study proposal, which is reviewed by the NHIS review committee before providing data. Further inquiries on data use can be obtained by contacting the corresponding author. Funding and competing interests This work was supported by the NHIS in South Korea. The authors declare no competing interests.

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Cancer Statistics in Korea: Incidence, Mortality, Survival, and Prevalence in 2014

Kyu-Won Jung, Young-Joo Won, Chang-Mo Oh … (2017)

Purpose This study presents the 2014 nationwide cancer statistics in Korea, including cancer incidence, survival, prevalence, and mortality. Materials and Methods Cancer incidence data from 1999 to 2014 was obtained from the Korea National Cancer Incidence Database and followed until December 31, 2015. Mortality data from 1983 to 2014 were obtained from Statistics Korea. The prevalence was defined as the number of cancer patients alive on January 1, 2015, among all cancer patients diagnosed since 1999. Crude and age-standardized rates (ASRs) for incidence, mortality, prevalence, and 5-year relative survivals were also calculated. Results In 2014, 217,057 and 76,611 Koreans were newly diagnosed and died from cancer respectively. The ASRs for cancer incidence and mortality in 2014 were 270.7 and 85.1 per 100,000, respectively. The all-cancer incidence rate has increased significantly by 3.4% annually from 1999 to 2012, and started to decrease after 2012 (2012-2014; annual percent change, –6.6%). However, overall cancer mortality has decreased 2.7% annually since 2002. The 5-year relative survival rate for patients diagnosed with cancer between 2010 and 2014 was 70.3%, an improvement from the 41.2% for patients diagnosed between 1993 and 1995. Conclusion Age-standardized cancer incidence rates have decreased since 2012 and mortality rates have also declined since 2002, while 5-year survival rates have improved remarkably from 1993-1995 to 2010-2014 in Korea.

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Rising incidence of intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma in the United States: a true increase?

Yasser H. Shaib, Jessica A. Davila, Kathryn McGlynn … (2004)

The incidence of intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC) has been reported to be increasing in the USA. The aim of this study is to examine whether this is a true increase or a reflection of improved detection or reclassification. Using data from the Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) program, incidence rates for ICC between 1975 and 1999 were calculated. We also calculated the proportions of cases with each tumor stage, microscopically confirmed cases, and the survival rates. A total of 2864 patients with ICC were identified. The incidence of ICC increased by 165% during the study period. Most of this increase occurred after 1985. There were no significant changes in the proportion of patients with unstaged cancer, localized cancer, microscopic confirmation, or with tumor size <5 cm during the period of the most significant increase. The 1-year survival rate increased significantly from 15.8% in 1975-1979 to 26.3% in 1995-1999, while 5-year survival rate remained essentially the same (2.6 vs. 3.5%). The incidence of ICC continues to rise in the USA. The stable proportions over time of patients with early stage disease, unstaged disease, tumor size <5 cm, and microscopic confirmation suggest a true increase of ICC.

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Journal ID (nlm-ta): Gut Liver

Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Gut Liver

Title: Gut and Liver

Publisher: Editorial Office of Gut and Liver

ISSN (Print): 1976-2283

ISSN (Electronic): 2005-1212

Publication date (Print): January 2019

Publication date (Electronic): 21 September 2018

Volume: 13

Issue: 1

Pages: 104-113

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[1 ]Department of Cancer Control and Population Health, Graduate School of Cancer Science and Policy, National Cancer Center, Goyang, Korea

[2 ]Department of Preventive Medicine, Kyung Hee University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

[3 ]Center for Liver Cancer, National Cancer Center, Goyang, Korea

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Correspondence to: Moran Ki, Department of Cancer Control and Population Health, Graduate School of Cancer Science and Policy, National Cancer Center, 323 Ilsan-ro, Ilsan-dong-gu, Goyang 10408, Korea, Tel: +82-31-920-2736, Fax: +82-2-6455-8699, E-mail: moranki@ 123456ncc.re.kr

Byung-Woo Kim and Chang-Mo Oh contributed equally to this work as first authors.

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Publisher ID: gnl-13-104

DOI: 10.5009/gnl18105

PMC ID: 6347005

PubMed ID: 29938462

SO-VID: 1111dec9-0f53-4fe0-97d8-4926150fa8e2

Copyright © Copyright © 2019 by The Korean Society of Gastroenterology, the Korean Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, the Korean Society of Neurogastroenterology and Motility, Korean College of Helicobacter and Upper Gastrointestinal Research, Korean Association the Study of Intestinal Diseases, the Korean Association for the Study of the Liver, Korean Pancreatobiliary Association, and Korean Society of Gastrointestinal Cancer.

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Date received : 26 February 2018

Date revision received : 08 April 2018

Date accepted : 25 April 2018

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