Relationship between socioeconomic status and accessibility for endoscopic resection among gastric cancer patients: using National Health Insurance Cohort in Korea: poverty and endoscopic resection

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• 作者：Na Yeon Kim ; Jun Seok Oh ; Young Choi ; Jaeyong Shin ; Eun-Cheol Park
• 关键词：Endoscopic resection ; Socioeconomic status ; Gastric cancer ; Inequality ; Endoscopy ; Screening ; Korea
• 刊名：Gastric Cancer
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：20
• 期：1
• 页码：61-69
• 全文大小：370KB
• 刊物类别：Medicine
• 刊物主题：Surgical Oncology; Oncology; Abdominal Surgery; Gastroenterology; Cancer Research;
• 出版者：Springer Japan
• ISSN：1436-3305
• 卷排序：20

文摘

BackgroundGastric cancer is one of the most common types of cancer among patients in Korea. We measured the inequity in accessibility to endoscopic mucosal/submucosal resection (EMR) for early and curable gastric cancer treatment among different income classes in patients diagnosed from late 2011 to 2013.