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- The 25th Lung Cancer Workshop -
Japanese Joint Committee for Lung Cancer Registration
Yoshitaka Fujii11Department of Oncology, Immunlogy, and Surgery, Nagoya City University Postgraduate School of Medical Sciences, Japan
Japanese Joint Committee for Lung Cancer Registration was founded in 1998 and is run by a joint effort of the Japan Lung Cancer Society, Japanese Association for Chest Surgery, and Japanese Respiratory Society. Its main objective is to register cases of lung cancer diagnosed and treated in Japan, and provide the basic data necessary for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of lung cancer. Committee members are from each of the three associations mentioned above, member(s) of International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer Staging Committee, a biostatistician, and the general secretary. The office is in the Department of Thoracic Surgery, Osaka University. The committee registered and analyzed lung cancer cases who underwent resection in 1989, 1994, and 1999. It also registered lung cancer cases who were diagnosed in 2002, including those who received only medical treatment. These registrations provided the latest and most reliable data of lung cancer demographics and prognosis which will serve as the reference for the diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer. For example, the data show a very good prognosis of female non-smoker adenocarcinoma, suggesting that this population has a distinct cause of cancer other than smoking. The committee has finished compiling data of lung cancer cases resected in 2004 and its results will be published shortly.
key words: Epidemiology of lung cancer, Lung cancer registry, Prospective registration
JJLC 52 (1): 54-57, 2012
