TY - JOUR
T1 - The challenge to reduce breast cancer mortality in okinawa
T2 - Consensus of the first okinawa breast oncology meeting
AU - Tamaki, Kentaro
AU - Tamaki, Nobumitsu
AU - Kamada, Yoshihiko
AU - Uehara, Kano
AU - Zaha, Hisamitsu
AU - Onomura, Mai
AU - Gushimiyagi, Masanori
AU - Kurashita, Kaname
AU - Miyazato, Keiko
AU - Tengan, Hiromu
AU - Miyara, Kyuichiro
AU - Ishida, Takanori
AU - Ueda, Makoto
AU - Miyaguni, Takao
AU - Nagamine, Shinji
AU - Miyagi, Jun
AU - Nomura, Hironori
AU - Sunagawa, Kazuya
AU - Higa, Junko
AU - Sato, Chiho
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was partly supported by a Grant-in-Aid from ‘Kurokawa Cancer Research Foundation’.
PY - 2013/2
Y1 - 2013/2
N2 - Breast cancer mortality is gradually increasing in Okinawa. The 1st Okinawa Breast Oncology Meeting was held on 6 July 2012 and discussions on how to curb the rising trend were focused on breast cancer screening, adjuvant treatment, socioeconomic and geographic issues, and the problem of complementary and alternative medicine. The consensus of the 1st Okinawa Breast Oncology Meeting was that ultrasonography screening is an acceptable screening system for Okinawan women because of the geographic disadvantage of having many small islands and rural areas. Educational and economic support is needed for women in rural areas to get correct information, for access to urban areas and to be treated by evidence-based optimal therapy for breast cancer. In addition, new approaches are needed for Okinawan people to successfully educate patients to correctly interpret evidence-based information.
AB - Breast cancer mortality is gradually increasing in Okinawa. The 1st Okinawa Breast Oncology Meeting was held on 6 July 2012 and discussions on how to curb the rising trend were focused on breast cancer screening, adjuvant treatment, socioeconomic and geographic issues, and the problem of complementary and alternative medicine. The consensus of the 1st Okinawa Breast Oncology Meeting was that ultrasonography screening is an acceptable screening system for Okinawan women because of the geographic disadvantage of having many small islands and rural areas. Educational and economic support is needed for women in rural areas to get correct information, for access to urban areas and to be treated by evidence-based optimal therapy for breast cancer. In addition, new approaches are needed for Okinawan people to successfully educate patients to correctly interpret evidence-based information.
KW - Adjuvant treatments
KW - Breast cancer mortality
KW - Complementary and alternative medicine
KW - Screening
KW - Socioeconomic and geographic disadvantage
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U2 - 10.1093/jjco/hys217
DO - 10.1093/jjco/hys217
M3 - Article
C2 - 23288933
AN - SCOPUS:84873474081
VL - 43
SP - 208
EP - 213
JO - Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology
JF - Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology
SN - 0368-2811
IS - 2
M1 - hys217
ER -
