Differences in routine esophagogastroduodenoscopy between Japanese and international facilities: A questionnaire survey

Uedo N 1 , Gotoda T 2 , Yoshinaga S 3 , Tanuma T 4 , Morita Y 5 , Doyama H 6 Show all authors , Aso A 7 , Hirasawa T 8 , Yano T 9 , Uchita N 10 , Ho SH 11 , Hsieh PH 12

Affiliations 

  • 1 Department of Gastrointestinal Oncology, Osaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Disease, Osaka, Japan
  • 2 Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
  • 3 Endoscopy Division, National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
  • 4 Department of Gastroenterology, Teine Keijinkai Hospital, Sapporo, Japan
  • 5 Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan
  • 6 Department of Gastroenterology, Ishikawa Prefectural Central Hospital, Kanazawa, Japan
  • 7 Department of Medicine and Bioregulatory Science, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Fukuoka, Japan
  • 8 Division of Gastroenterology, Cancer Institute Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
  • 9 Endoscopy Division, Department of Gastroenterology, National Cancer Center Hospital East, Kashiwa, Japan
  • 10 Department of Gastroenterology, Kochi Red Cross Hospital, Kochi, Japan
  • 11 Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • 12 Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Chimei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan
Dig Endosc, 2016 Apr;28 Suppl 1:16-24.
PMID: 26856704 DOI: 10.1111/den.12629

Abstract

The mortality rate of gastric cancer (GC) is close to the incidence rate worldwide. However, in Korea and Japan, the mortality rate of GC is less than half of the incidence rate. We hypothesized that good-quality routine esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) contributes to a high detection rate for early GC (EGC) and improves mortality in these countries.

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