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KMID : 1022120070090010121
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Health and Welfare
2007 Volume.9 No. 1 p.121 ~ p.136
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A Study on the Sociodemographic Characteristics of the Cancer Patients - Focused on colon, stomach and lung cancers -
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Kim Seung-Hee
Ko Min-Seok
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Abstract
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Objectives: This study is to analyze the sociodemographic characteristics of the patients with 3 most common cancers (colon, stomach, lung) in an effort to provide basic data useful in establishing effective policies for preventing cancers.
Methods: For this aim, a total of 1,298 cases were used as final data for our analysis, selected fran among the cancer patients who were hospitalized and diagnosed by the 3rd referral medical institutions in the city of Jeonju, Jeonbuk province during 2005. This study encoded the data gathered and carried out frequency analysis, Correlation analysis, X2-test, logistic regression using SPSS v13.0 statistics program.
Result: (1) The highest distribution of 3 most common cancers is colon cancer(45.8%), stomach cancer(36.9%), lung cancer(17.3%). (2) There was difference in the correlation of between each cancer by sociodemographic characteristics(age, sex, occupation, residential area). (3) 3 most common cancers by sociodemographic characteristics was statistically significantly different according to every selected variable. (4) The patients with colon cancer were significantly affected by age, occupation, residential area. The patients with stomach cancer were significantly affected by occupation. And the patients with lung cancer were significantly affected by age, occupation, residential area.
Conclusions: It is therefore desirable to conduct further depth studies on sociodemographic characteristics that are most responsible to frequently cancers. The government should place priority on translational researches to be performed in comprehensive cooperation among scientists and even policy makers in connection with cancer research. In this connection, wide-scope strategies should be prepared to install the national management system for prevention, diagnosis, treatment and research of cancer as well as to expand human and material infrastructure. And, precise field epidemiology should be conducted to determine the cause of diseases in a bid to prevent cancer outbreak. For this purpose, it is urgent to reorganize not only the project of cancer patient registration that has already been initiated by large hospitals but also registration project of cancer in proportion to population. It may be possible to get rid of threatening from cancer, extend life expectancy and cure cancer completely only when the suggestions mentioned above can be realized.
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