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How Korea's free national screening grew from three cancers for people on Medical Aid in 1999 to six cancers for everyone insured by 2019.
A review by the National Cancer Center's screening researchers. The government established the National Cancer Screening Program in 1999, initially offering stomach, breast and cervical cancer screening to Medical Aid beneficiaries. By 2019 it had widened its eligible population and its range to six cancers (stomach, liver, cervical, breast, colorectal and lung) for both Medical Aid recipients and health insurance beneficiaries. The authors report steadily rising participation, falls in the incidence of stomach, liver, colorectal and cervical cancer with more detection at precancerous stages, improved five-year survival for stomach, colorectal and breast cancer, and mortality-to-incidence ratios for major cancers well below the OECD average.
Every insured Korean adult from 40 is offered a stomach endoscopy every two years, and people at high risk of liver cancer an ultrasound and blood test every six months. This review, by the researchers who run the programme, sets out how that came about.
Shares National Cancer Center Korea, Hepatocellular carcinoma, Gastric & gastro-oesophageal junction cancer, Colorectal cancer.
Shares National Cancer Center Korea, Gastric & gastro-oesophageal junction cancer.
Shares Effectiveness of the Korean National Cancer Screening Program in Reducing Gastric Cancer Mortality, Gastric & gastro-oesophageal junction cancer.
Shares National Cancer Center Korea, Gastric & gastro-oesophageal junction cancer.
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