• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제39권3호
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• pp.255-262
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• 2006

Objectives: This study is conducted to identify the cancer incidence in Gwangju during the 5-year period from 1998 to 2002 and to assess the completeness and validity of the cancer registry data during this time period. Methods: All cases that had a diagnosis of invasive cancer (ICD-10 sites C00-C97) during the study period were retrieved from the records of the Gwangju Cancer Registry (GCR), which theoretically includes all the cancer cases in Gwangju. All the cases during the study period were analyzed by gender, age group and cancer sites. The completeness (mortality/incidence ratio and age-specific incidence curve) and validity (histologic verification, primary site unknown, age unknown and death certificate only) of the cancer registry in Gwangju were analyzed by gender, age group and cancer sites for the 5-year period. Results: The overall cancer incidence was higher in the males than in the females (age-standardized incidence rates (ASR) 299.8 and 172.4 per 100,000, respectively). In males, the most common cancer was stomach (ASR: 65.8), followed by liver (ASR: 50.5), bronchus and lung (ASR: 50.5), colo-rectum (ASR: 26.7), oesophagus (ASR: 10.6), and bladder (ASR: 10.3) in descending order. In females, the most common cancer was stomach (ASR: 26.8), followed by thyroid (ASR: 20.7), breast (ASR: 20.4), cervix uteri (ASR: 14.3), bronchus and lung (ASR: 13.0), liver (ASR: 10.7) and colo-rectum (ASR: 17.2) in descending order. The overall quality (completeness and validity) of the cancer registry was at the in 'good' level. Conclusions: These results will be useful in the overall context of planning and evaluating of cancer control activities in Gwangju.

• 한국전자거래학회지
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.259-276
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• 2004

현재 웹서비스와 듀XML에서는 기업의 설명정보와 더불어 기업에서 제공하는 서비스와 관련 정보를 저장하고 관리하기 위해 레지스트리를 이용하고 있다. 듀XML에서는 ebXML 레지스트리를, 웹서비스에서는 UDDI를 레지스트리로 이용한다. 또한 최근 W3C에서는 시맨틱 웹의 표준 웹 온톨로지 언어로 OWL을 채택하였으며, OWL을 이용한 서비스의 시맨틱 명세를 위해 OWL-S가 정의된 바 있다. 본 연구에서는 UDDI 데이터구조와 ebXML RIM을 OWL-S와 비교하여, 유사하거나 같은 의미를 나타내는 부분은 직접 매핑하고 직접 매핑되지 않는 부분을 위해 OWL 문서를 확장하여 레지스트리에 대한 통합을 가능하게 하였다. 이렇게 함으로써, 기존 레지스트리에 저장된 정보를 활용한 서비스 온톨로지의 구축이 가능하며, 동시에 시맨틱 검색의 지원과 함께 UDDI와 ebXML레지스트리 그리고 OWL-S 레지스트리의 실질적인 통합이 이루어진다는 장점을 가지게 된다. 생성된 OWL-S는 에어전트가 시맨틱 중개(semantic matchmaking)하는데 활용할 수 있게 한다.

• 대한두경부종양학회지
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.3-14
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• 1998

재발, 추시 중 소실, 다른 원발성 암의 병발 등으로 복잡해질 수 있는 두경부암 환자 등록에 있어서, '단일등록양식다중항목체제'라는 새로운 체제로, 서울대학교 병원에서 진단한 486명의 두경부암 환자를 대상으로 하여, 데이터베이스를 구성하고, 이의 운용을 '다중등록양식체제'라는 기존의 체제와 비교하였다. 새로운 방법의 구조와 흐름이 보다 간단하고 자료의 검색이 더 효율적이었다. 두경부암 환자 등록의 전용 프로그램 개발에도 이 체제의 도입이 필요할 것으로 사료된다.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제15권24호
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• pp.10867-10869
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• 2015

Background: There are various patient and professional factors responsible for the delay in start of treatment (SOT) for head and neck cancers (HNC). Materials and Methods: This retrospective study was conducted on data for HNC patients registered at the hospital cancer registry in North-East India. All cases diagnosed during the period of January 2010 to December 2012 were considered for the present analysis. Educational levels of all patients were clustered into 3 groups; illiterates (unable to read or write), qualified (school or high school level education), and highly qualified (college and above). Results: In the present analysis 1066 (34.6%) patients were illiterates, 1,869 (60.6%) patients were literates and 145 (4.7%) of all patients with HNC were highly qualified. The stage at diagnosis were stage I, seen in 62 (34.6%), stage II in 393 (12.8%), stage III in 1,371 (44.5%) and stage IV in 1,254 (40.7%). The median time (MT) to the SOT from date of attending cancer hospital (DOACH) was, in illiterate group MT was 18 days, whereas in the qualified group of patients it was 15 days and in the highly qualified group was 10 days. Analysis of variance showed there was a significant difference on the mean time for the delay in SOT from DOACH for different educational levels (F=9.923, p=0.000). Conclusions: Educational level is a patient related factor in the delays for the SOT in HNCs in our population.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제15권24호
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• pp.10735-10738
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• 2015

Background: Cancers of the breast, uterine cervix and ovary are common cancers amongst females of North East India. Not much is known about the descriptive epidemiology of these cancers in our population. The present retrospective analysis was therefore performed. Materials and Methods: The data set available at the hospital based cancer registry of a regional cancer center of North-East India, containing information on patients registered during the period of January 2010 to December 2012, was applied. A total of 2,925 cases of breast, uterine cervix and ovarian cancer were identified. Results: Of the total, 1,295 (44.3%) were breast cancers, 1,214 (41.5%) were uterine cervix and 416 (14.2%) ovarian cancer, median age (range) for breast, uterine cervix and ovary were 45 (17-85), 48 (20-91) and 45 years (7-80), respectively. Some 43.5% of cases with uterine cervix patients were illiterate, 5.4% and 5.7% stage I in breast and cervix respectively and 96.4% of ovarian cancers in advanced stage. Conclusions: Improvement of female education can contribute to increase the proportion of early stage diagnosis of breast and uterine cervix in our population. Any population-based intervention for the detection of cancers of breast, uterine cervix and ovarian cancer should be started early in our population.

• Annals of Clinical Neurophysiology
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.71-79
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• 2011

Geographical differences in the incidence of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) have been reported, and there are still many unresolved problems. The incidence as well as epidemiologic data of ALS is not known in Korea. Web-based multicenter registry of ALS, the Korean ALS registry, was established at January, 2011. The aim of "the Korean ALS registry" is the following: (1) to establish a database for the prospective collection of epidemiological information; (2) to assess the incidence and prevalence; (3) to find the temporal and geographic trends in the disease; (4) to define the full clinical spectrum of the disease; (5) to develop treatment guideline based on the database.

• 정보처리학회논문지D
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• 제18D권3호
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• pp.149-156
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• 2011

최근 기업의 시스템들은 데이터 공유와 협업을 위해 통합의 필요성을 제기하고 있다. 통합을 위한 방법론으로 서비스 통합을 위한 서비스 지향 아키텍처와 서비스에 사용되는 데이터의 통합을 위한 마스터 데이터가 등장했다. 본 논문은 BP(Business Process)를 효율적으로 운용하기 위한 방안을 제시한다. 우리는 BP를 지원하기 위한 지식 저장소로 XMDR(eXtended Meta Data Registry)과 이를 운용하기 위한 데이터 허브를 구성한다. XMDR은 데이터 통합을 위한 MDM(Master Data Management)을 관리하고, 데이터 간의 이질성을 해결하고, 업무 간의 연관관계를 효율적으로 제공한다. 이것은 MDR(Meta Data Registry), 온톨로지, BR(Business Relations)으로 구성된다. MDR은 구조적 이질성을 해결하기 위한 메타 데이터간의 관계성을 기술한다. 온톨로지는 의미적 이질성과 데이터 간의 관계성을 기술한다. BR은 업무 간의 관계성을 기술한다. XMDR 데이터 허브는 마스터 데이터의 관리를 지원하고, 프로세스 간의 상호작용을 효율적으로 지원할 수 있다.

• Safety and Health at Work
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.290-295
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• 2018

Background: There is little information on the dose-response relationship between exposure to occupational carcinogenic agents and mesothelioma. This study aimed to investigate this association as well as the existence of agents other than asbestos that might cause mesothelioma. Methods: The Swedish component of the Nordic Occupational Cancer (NOCCA) study consists of 6.78 million individuals with detailed information on occupation. Mesothelioma diagnoses recorded in 1961-2009 were identified through linkage to the Swedish Cancer Registry. We determined cumulative exposure, time of first exposure, and maximum exposure intensity by linking data on occupation to the Swedish NOCCA job-exposure matrix, which includes 29 carcinogenic agents and corresponding exposure for 283 occupations. To assess the risk of mesothelioma, we used conditional logistic regression models to estimate hazard ratios and 95% confidence intervals. Results: 2,757 mesothelioma cases were identified in males, including 1,416 who were exposed to asbestos. Univariate analyses showed not only a significant excess risk for maximum exposure intensity, with a hazard ratio of 4.81 at exposure levels 1.25-2.0 fb/ml but also a clear dose-response effect for cumulative exposure with a 30-, 40-, and 50-year latency time. No convincing excess risk was revealed for any of the other carcinogenic agents included in the Swedish NOCCA job-exposure matrix. Conclusion: When considering asbestos exposure, past exposure, even for short periods, might be enough to cause mesothelioma of the pleura later in life.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제43권3호
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• pp.257-264
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• 2010

Objectives: An accurate estimation of cancer patients is the basis of epidemiological studies and health services. However in Korea, cancer patients visiting out-patient clinics are usually ruled out of such studies and so these studies are suspected of underestimating the cancer patient population. The purpose of this study is to construct a more complete, hospital-based cancer patient registry using multiple sources of medical information. Methods: We constructed a cancer patient detection algorithm using records from various sources that were obtained from both the in-patients and out-patients seen at Asan Medical Center (AMC) for any reason. The medical data from the potentially incident cancer patients was reviewed four months after first being detected by the algorithm to determine whether these patients actually did or did not have cancer. Results: Besides the traditional practice of reviewing the charts of in-patients upon their discharge, five more sources of information were added for this algorithm, i.e., pathology reports, the national severe disease registry, the reason for treatment, prescriptions of chemotherapeutic agents and radiation therapy reports. The constructed algorithm was observed to have a PPV of 87.04%. Compared to the results of traditional practice, 36.8% of registry failures were avoided using the AMC algorithm. Conclusions: To minimize loss in the cancer registry, various data sources should be utilized, and the AMC algorithm can be a successful model for this. Further research will be required in order to apply novel and innovative technology to the electronic medical records system in order to generate new signals from data that has not been previously used.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.2841-2846
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• 2016

Background: Tobacco use is the single most important preventable risk factor for cancer. Surveillance of tobacco-related cancers (TRC) is critical for monitoring trends and evaluating tobacco control programmes. We analysed the trends of TRC and evaluated the population-based cancer registry (PBCR) in Delhi for simplicity, comparability, validity, timeliness and representativeness. Materials and Methods: We interviewed key informants, observed registry processes and analysed the PBCR dataset for the period 1988-2009 using the 2009 TRC definition of the International Agency for Research on Cancer. We calculated the percentages of morphologically verified cancers, death certificate-only (DCO) cases, missing values of key variables and the time between cancer diagnosis and registration or publication for the year 2009. Results: The number of new cancer cases increased from 5,854 to 15,244 (160%) during 1988-2009. TRC constituted 58% of all cancers among men and 47% among women in 2009. The age-adjusted incidence rates of TRC per 100,000 population increased from 64.2 to 97.3 among men, and from 66.2 to 69.2 among women during 1988-2009. Data on all cancer cases presenting at all major government and private health facilities are actively collected by the PBCR staff using standard paper-based forms. Data abstraction and coding is conducted manually following ICD-10 classifications. Eighty per cent of cases were morphologically verified and 1% were identified by death certificate only. Less than 1% of key variables had missing values. The median time to registration and publishing was 13 and 32 months, respectively. Conclusions: The burden of TRC in Delhi is high and increasing. The Delhi PBCR is well organized and generates high-quality, representative data. However, data could be published earlier if paper-based data are replaced by electronic data abstraction.