Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention (아시아태평양암예방학회)
권호 표지
DOI QR코드

DOI QR Code

Comparison of Survival Rates between Chinese and Thai Patients with Breast Cancer

  • Che, Yanhua (Galactophore Department, The First Peoples' Hospital of Kunming City) ;
  • You, Jing (The First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University) ;
  • Zhou, Shaojiang (Galactophore Department, The Yunnan Tumor Hospital) ;
  • Li, Li (The First Peoples' Hospital of Kunming City) ;
  • Wang, Yeying (Epidemiology and Biostatistics Unit, School of Public Health, The Kunming Medical University) ;
  • Yang, Yue (Galactophore Department, The First Peoples' Hospital of Kunming City) ;
  • Guo, Xuejun (Galactophore Department, The First Peoples' Hospital of Kunming City) ;
  • Ma, Sijia (The First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University) ;
  • Sriplung, Hutcha (Epidemiology Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University)
  • Published : 2014.08.15
Download PDF
⟨ Previous Next ⟩

Abstract

The burden and severity of a cancer can be reflected by patterns of survival. Breast cancer prognosis between two countries with a different socioeconomic status and cultural beliefs may exhibit wide variation. This study aimed to describe survival in patients with breast cancer in China and Thailand in relation to demographic and clinical prognostic information. Materials and Methods: We compared the survival of 1,504 Chinese women in Yunnan province and 929 Thai women in Songkhla with breast cancer from 2006 to 2010. Descriptive prognostic comparisons between the Chinese and Thai women were performed by relative survival analysis. A Cox regression model was used to calculate the hazard ratios of death, taking into account the age, disease stage, period of diagnosis and country. Results: The overall 5-year survival proportion for patients diagnosed with breast cancer for Yunnan province (0.72) appeared slightly better than Songkhla (0.70) without statistical significance. Thai women diagnosed with distant and regional breast cancer had poorer survival than Chinese women. Disease stage was the most important determinant of survival from the results of Cox regression model. Conclusions: Breast cancer patients in Kunming had slightly greater five-year survival rate than patients in Songkhla. Both Chinese and Thai women need improvement in prognosis, which could conceivably be attained through increased public education and awareness regarding early detection and compliance to treatment protocols.

Keywords

References

  1. Abdullah NA, Mahiyuddin WRW, Muhammad NA, et al (2013). Survival rate of breast cancer patients in Malaysia: a population-based study. Asian Pac J Cancer Prev, 14, 4591-4. https://doi.org/10.7314/APJCP.2013.14.8.4591
  2. Allemani C, Sant M, Weir HK, et al (2013). Breast cancer survival in the US and Europe: a CONCORD high-resolution study. Int J Cancer, 132, 1170-81. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijc.27725
  3. Ferlay J, Shin HR, Bray F, et al (2010). Estimates of worldwide burden of cancer in 2008: GLOBOCAN 2008. Int J Cancer, 127, 2893-917. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijc.25516
  4. Ferlay J, Soerjomataram I, Ervik M, et al (2013). GLOBOCAN 2012 v1.0, Cancer Incidence and Mortality Worldwide: IARC CancerBase No. 11 [Internet]. Lyon, France: International Agency for Research on Cancer; Available from: http://globocan.iarc.fr, accessed on 9 January 2013.
  5. Gamel JW, Vogel RL (2001). Non-parametric comparison of relative versus cause-specific survival in Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) programme breast cancer patients. Stat Methods Med Res, 10, 339-52. https://doi.org/10.1191/096228001680678331
  6. Harrell Jr FE (2013). HMisc package for R version 3.13.0. Available from http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/Hmisc/index.html.
  7. Lopez AD, Salomon J, Ahmad O, et al (2014). Life Tables for 191 Countries: Data, Methods and Results. GPE Discussion Paper Series: No. 9. World Health Organization. Available from: http://www.who.int/healthinfo/paper09.pdf.
  8. Muangpaisan T, Sriplung H (2000). Social and geographic predictors of cancer survival: a role for a population-based cancer registry in cancer control. Asian Pac J Cancer Prev, 1, 319-23.
  9. National Statistical Office (2012). 2010 Population and Housing Census of Songkhla. National Statistical Office. 2012. Available from: http://service.nso.go.th/nso/nso_center/project/search_center/province-th.htm.
  10. Parkin DM, Bray F, Ferlay J, et al. (2005). Global cancer statistics, 2002. CA Cancer J Clin, 55, 74-108. https://doi.org/10.3322/canjclin.55.2.74
  11. R Core Team (2013). R: A language and environment for statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria. URL http://www.R-project.org/.
  12. Sankaranarayanan R, Swaminathan R, Lucas E (2011). Cancer survival in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Central America (SurvCan). IARC Scientific Publications volume 162, ISBN 978-92-832-2162-3, Lyon, International Agency for Research on Cancer, 2011.
  13. Shambaugh EM, Weiss MA, Ries LAG, et al (1993). Cancer Statistics Branch Surveillance Program: SEER: Comparative Staging Guide for Cancer version Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, National Cancer Institute; Bethesda, MD; 1993. Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, National Cancer Institute; Bethesda, MD; 1993.
  14. Shin HR, Joubert C, Boniol M, et al (2010). Recent trends and patterns in breast cancer incidence among Eastern and Southeastern Asian women. Cancer Causes Control, 21, 1777-85. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10552-010-9604-8
  15. Sriplung H (2013). CRStat package for R version 3.0.0.1. Available at: http://r-ice-project.org/grains/CRStat.html.
  16. Sriplung H, Wiangnon S, Sontipong S, et al (2006). Cancer incidence trends in Thailand, 1989-2000. Asian Pac J Cancer Prev, 7, 239-44.
  17. Tayeb MA, Al-Zamel E, Fareed MM, et al (2010 ). A “good death”: perspectives of Muslim patients and health care providers. Ann Saudi Med, 30, 215-21. https://doi.org/10.4103/0256-4947.62836
  18. Teo MC, Soo KC (2013 ). Cancer trends and incidences in Singapore. Jpn J Clin Oncol, 43, 219-24. https://doi.org/10.1093/jjco/hys230
  19. Young JJ Jr, Roffers SD, Ries LAG, et al (2001). SEER Summary Staging Manual-2000:Codes and Coding Instructions. National Cancer Institute, NIH Pub. No. 01-4969, Bethesda, MD.
  20. Zhao P, Dai M, Chen W, et al. (2010 ). Cancer trends in China. Jpn J Clin Oncol, 40, 281-5. https://doi.org/10.1093/jjco/hyp187

Cited by

  1. Survival of Stomach Cancer Cases in Khon Kaen, Thailand 2000-2012 vol.17, pp.4, 2016, https://doi.org/10.7314/APJCP.2016.17.4.2125
  2. Body image transformation after breast cancer diagnosis and treatment in southern Thai women vol.7, pp.2050-3121, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1177/2050312119829985