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- Title
Cancer of the Pancreas: The Accuracy of Clinical Diagnosis and Its Time Trends in Japan During a 15-Year Period (1958–1972).
- Authors
HANADA, MASATO
- Abstract
Autopsy data for all of Japan from 1958 through 1972 were analyzed to determine the accuracy of clinical diagnosis of pancreatic cancer and its time trends. The results showed that 53.9% of 4,819 cases of pancreatic carcinoma proved at autopsy has been underdiagnosed clinically (underdiagnosis rate), whereas 31.7% of 3,254 cases with a clinical diagnosis or suspicion of the cancer were found by autopsy to have been overdiagnosed (overdiagnosis rate) during the period examined. The time trends in underdiagnosis and overdiagnosis rates showed a 7.8% and 4.9% improvement, respectively. The degree of diagnostic improvement observed did not appear to be great enough to account for a substantial part of the reported increase in pancreatic cancer mortality in this country.
- Publication
Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology, 1979, Vol 9, Issue 1, p15
- ISSN
0368-2811
- Publication type
Article