China has set up the world’s largest cancer registry system
in a bid to fight the cancer diseases by more-targeted and evidence-based
intervention programmers. A cancer registry is a systematic collection of data
about cancer and tumor diseases. Cancer registry records complete summary of
patient history, diagnosis, treatment and status of every cancer patient. To
date, medical costs have not been included in the registry, state-run China
Daily reported. “The more people the registry covers, the more precisely we
will understand the rising epidemic,” said Chen Wanqing, Registry Director.
The registry records complete summary of cancer patient
history including diagnosis, treatment and status of every cancer patient.
However the registry excludes the medical costs. This registry system seeks to
cover over 300 million people of China and expand to include 40 per cent of the
nation’s population of 1.36 billion by 2020. In China, at least 3 million people
develop cancer each year and it claims 2.2 million lives in China and costs at
least US 16 billion dollars each year.
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