In 2013, the national human papillomavirus (HPV) immunization program began. However, in June 2013, Japan's Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) announced a "temporary" suspension of its recommendation for the human papillomavirus vaccine. Finally, in November 2021, the MHLW ended its suspension of the recommendation of the HPV vaccine.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: The incidence and mortality of lung cancer are highest in Asia compared with Europe and USA, with the incidence and mortality rates being 34.4 and 28.1 per 100,000 respectively in East Asia.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: We developed algorithms to identify patients with newly diagnosed cancer from a Japanese claims database to identify the patients with newly diagnosed cancer of the sample population, which were compared with the nationwide cancer incidence in Japan to assess the validity of the novel algorithms.
Methods: We developed two algorithms to identify patients with stomach, lung, colorectal, breast, and cervical cancers: diagnosis only (algorithm 1), and combining diagnosis, treatments, and medicines (algorithm 2). Patients with newly diagnosed cancer were identified from an anonymized commercial claims database (JMDC Claims Database) in 2017 with two inclusions/exclusion criteria: selecting all patients with cancer (extract 1) and excluding patients who had received cancer treatments in 2015 or 2016 (extract 2).
In 2013, the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare (MHLW) in Japan announced a suspension of the governmental recommendation for routine HPV vaccinations. In 2020, MHLW started individual notifications of HPV vaccine to the targeted girls. In April 2022, the governmental recommendation was restarted, and catch-up vaccinations started.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: In Japan, in June 2013, The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) decided to temporarily suspend its official recommendation for the participation of girls in the national immunization program. The HPV vaccination rate in Japan soon declined to below 1%. In October 2020, the MHLW notified that the municipalities could and should begin to individually notify girls and their parents targeted for routine vaccination.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFContinued decrease in smoking prevalence and increasing use of sensitive diagnostic procedures necessitate updated monitoring of trends in lung cancer incidence in Japan. We analyzed histology- and stage-specific trends in 1993 to 2015 using data from 62 870 diagnosed cases from the Monitoring of Cancer Incidence in Japan project. After applying a multiple imputation approach to impute missing/unknown values of stage and histology, we estimated age-standardized incidence rates and applied joinpoint regression analyses.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Screening is one of the effective interventions for the reduction of colorectal cancer mortality. Though the Japanese government recommends faecal occult blood test and colonoscopy as a follow-up examination following a diagnosis, both participation rates have not been so high and the national mortality rate has not shown a clear decreasing trend.
Methods: Microsimulation models simulate the life histories of a large population of individuals under various scenarios.
Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine has been used to prevent chronic HPV infection, which accounts for cervical cancer. Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) conducted an HPV vaccination campaign in 2010 and the Obstetrical Gynecological Society of Osaka initiated a multicenter, prospective cohort study in Osaka, Japan - OCEAN (Osaka Clinical resEArch of HPV vacciNe) study - to investigate the oncogenic HPV prevalence and the long-term protection rate of HPV vaccine. A total of 2814 participants were enrolled on their visit for HPV vaccination between 12 and 18 years old.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe incidence of uterine corpus cancer has been increasing globally due to increase in obesity. However, a detailed analysis of long-term epidemiological trends of corpus cancer in Japan, where obesity is relatively minimal, has not been conducted. In this retrospective, population-based study using the Osaka Cancer Registry, we analyzed 15 255 cases of corpus neoplasia registered between 1977 and 2016.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn Japan, the age-adjusted incidence of cervical cancer has been increasing constantly and rapidly among younger women. We set out to accurately confirm the effectiveness of the HPV vaccine in Japan. Data were collected for women born in the fiscal year (FY) 1990 to 1997, who became eligible for their 20-y-old cervical cancer screening between the FY 2010 to 2017.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground And Aim: In Japan, screening colonoscopy for colorectal cancer is expected to reduce colorectal cancer mortality, although its complication rate has not been sufficiently examined. The aim of this study is to analyze severe complications due to colonoscopy.
Methods: As a study population, we retrospectively used commercially anonymized health insurance claims data covering 5.
Women born between 1994 and 1999 achieved high vaccination rates for human papillomavirus (HPV); they are now reaching the age of cervical cancer screening programs in Japan. In this study, we aimed to investigate the health awareness of HPV-vaccinated and unvaccinated women and to create tailored leaflets recommending cervical cancer screening for each. Surveys on the cancer screening rates for HPV-vaccinated and unvaccinated women aged 20 and 21 have demonstrated that the rate was significantly higher ( < 0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: In 2013, a cohort study aimed to clarify the positive and negative effects of introducing the human papillomavirus (HPV) testing for population-based cervical cancer screening has been launched in Japan. This study included four screenings during the subsequent 7-year follow-up period. We aim to describe the results of the first round of this study on cervical cancer screening here.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe trend for cervical cancer in younger women has been increasing recently in Japan. However, as a result of the suspension of governmental recommendation, Japan's HPV (human papillomavirus) vaccination rate for girls born since 2000 has dropped sharply. We conducted an internet survey in December of 2019, 76 months after the suspension of recommendation, to verify the intention of mothers to inoculate their daughter under current circumstances and compared with our previous surveys and leaflet intervention effect.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn Japan, a study using population-based cancer registry data from six prefectures revealed a difference in bladder cancer survival between men and women. However, the period of the study was limited to 1993-2006. The recent introduction of immune checkpoint inhibitors, which have proved to be effective for the treatment for bladder cancer, has led to a rising demand for analysis of long-term trends in net survival in order to accurately assess the effect of the new treatment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF: Small-size lung lesions suspected of being cancer are now often being identified on computed tomography. Correspondingly, a new lung cancer staging system has been proposed by the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC), in which the T1 factor and adenocarcinoma are re-subclassified. Previously, we proposed an intraoperative cytological diagnosis and its classification of small-size lung adenocarcinoma, which correlated significantly with clinical malignancy, to be used for selecting the surgical strategy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF: For patients with multiple small-sized pulmonary cancers, a lobectomy can disrupt future therapeutic options for other lesions. It was recently reported that limited pulmonary resections were not inferior to lobectomy for the management of selected peripheral small-sized pulmonary adenocarcinomas. Patients with adenocarcinoma or minimally invasive adenocarcinoma, as proposed by the International Association for the Study of Cancer classification, have been reported to have 100% survival after 5 years.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe incidence of breast cancer among Japanese women is substantially increasing. This study evaluated the effects of reproductive and lifestyle factors with respect to breast cancer overall and separately among pre- and postmenopausal women using data from the Three-Prefecture Cohort Study of Japan.A total of 33,410 women aged 40 to 79 years completed a self-administered questionnaire, which included items about menstrual and reproductive history and other lifestyle factors.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The incidence of cervical cancer has been increasing, especially in younger generation, in Japan. The females born between 1994 and 1999, who achieved rates of HPV vaccination approaching 70%, have become the target of cervical cancer screening programs. Here, we have analyzed the cervical cancer screening rates among the vaccinated and unvaccinated women.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The association of alcohol drinking with bladder cancer risk remains unclear in East Asian populations. Aldehyde dehydrogenase 2 (ALDH2) enzyme oxidizes alcohol-metabolized carcinogenic acetaldehyde into acetate. It is well known that the inactive ALDH2 carriers, specific to East Asian populations, have an increased risk of several cancer types because of increased exposure to acetaldehyde after alcohol consumption.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn 2013, following the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW)'s announced suspension of its vaccine recommendation due to media reports of "adverse events", HPV vaccination dropped to almost 0%. Here, we analyzed, by birth year, the cumulative vaccinations for girls up to age 16 (maximum age for public subsidies) and the results of cervical cancer screening in Matsuyama City. The incidence of CIN3 or worse was 0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: The incidence and long-term survival analysis for vulvar cancer, due to its rarity, has not been fully described in Asian population. The objective of the study is to determine the trends in incidence and long-term survival for vulvar cancer in a Japanese population, using a population-based cancer registry data in Osaka, Japan.
Methods: The age-standardized incidence rate of 389 cases of vulvar squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) diagnosed between 1976 and 2010 was calculated, using the 1985 model population of Japan.