Data resource basics: The National Health Information Database (NHID) is a public
database on health care utilization, health screening, socio-demographic variables, and …

Purpose When designing this trial, there was no evidence that salvage chemotherapy (SLC)
in advanced gastric cancer (AGC) resulted in substantial prolongation of survival when …

Background Combination chemotherapy with gemcitabine and a platinum-based agent is
regarded as a standard treatment for patients with advanced biliary-tract cancer. Results of …

Objective To investigate whether screening for thyroid cancer led to the current “epidemic” in
South Korea. Design Review of the medical records of nationally representative samples of …

Purpose This article gives an overview of nationwide cancer statistics, including incidence,
mortality, survival and prevalence, and their trends in Korea based on 2010 cancer …

Background Capecitabine plus oxaliplatin (XELOX) has shown modest activity and tolerable
toxicity in a phase II trial for biliary tract cancers (BTCs). Meanwhile, gemcitabine plus …

Purpose This study overviews nationwide cancer statistics, including incidence, mortality,
survival, and prevalence, and their trends in Korea based on 2009 cancer incidence data …

Background Surgery for cancer is often delayed due to variety of patient-, provider-, and
health system–related factors. However, impact of delayed surgery is not clear, and may …

Background There is a lack of agreement on which gastric cancer screening method is the
most effective in the general population. The present study compared the relative …

Apoptosis is regarded as a therapeutic target because it is typically disturbed in human
cancer. Silymarin from milk thistle (Silybum marianum) has been reported to exhibit …