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There is a relatively high incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma in South Korea. In general, hepatocellular carcinoma is diagnosed between ages 45 to 65 with differing rates among the age groups; also the causative links to this particular cancer type is thought to be different from country to country. This study aimed to analyze the proportion of the patients who were diagnosed with hepatocellular carcinoma by gender and document the differences in survival rates according to the stages of the cancer. Our study was based on the insurance claims data filed with one company from 2009 to 2011 for liver cancer. This data was used to classify patients according to their cancer stage, age and gender. We also analyzed survival rates in each group and noted their differences. From our study the proportions of deaths in males were higher than in females, but within each group there were no significant differences by age. Our analysis also indicated that the survival rate for stages 1-2 cancer patients were relative high at more than 70%. The proportion of patients surviving stages 3 and 4 cancer diagnosis was considerably lower with 20% surviving in 5 years. Considering the age groups of the patients, the mortality rate for patients aged 50-60 due to cancer was higher than patients aged 20-40. Because of the lower survival rates in stages 3 and 4 diagnosis group and in the 50-60 age population, it is necessary that we rethink our practices for treatment and nursing for these groups to better provide for them. In addition the insurance health coverage may also be tiered to this population set according to age and stage groupings.

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Abstract
 1. Introduction
 2. Materials & Methods
  2.1. Research Subjects
  2.2. Study Design
  2.3. Data Analysis
 3. Result
  3.1 General Characteristics of Study Participants
  3.2 The Distribution of the Cancer Stages of Study Participants With Hepatocellular Carcinoma
  3.3 The Distribution of Stages of Study Participants with Hepatocellular Carcinoma
  3.4 The Distribution Of Cancer Stages Of Study Participants By Age
  3.5 The Survival Distribution of Study Participants With Hepatocellular Carcinoma
  3.6 Cause of Death of Study Participants With Hepatocellular Carcinoma
  3.7 The Duration of Survival among the Study Participants with Hepatocellular Carcinoma
  3.8 The Distribution of 5-year Survival Rate in Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma
 4. Conclusions
 References

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저자

• Mi Joon Lee [ Lecturer, Department of Nursing, Hanyang University ]
• In Soon Min [ Professor, Department of Health Administration and Management, Soonchunhyang University ] Corresponding Author
• Jeong Hun Park [ Student, Graduate School of Department of Health Administration and Management, Soonchunhyang University3 ]

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• 간행물명

  International Journal of Bio-Science and Bio-Technology

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  격월간

• pISSN

  2233-7849

• 수록기간

  2009~2016

• 등재여부

  SCOPUS

• 십진분류

  KDC 505 DDC 605