Keynote lecture - Quality of cancer care
Abstract
Quality of cancer care KEYNOTE LECTURE â QUALITY OF CANCER CARE 1IN Quality of cancer care iii39 3IN Colorectal cancer is preventable: the role of COX 2 Nadir Arber (1) (1) Center for Cancer Prevention, Tel Aviv Medical Center and Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a major health concern in the Western world. The estimated lifetime risk of CRC is 5â6%, and the incidence rate increases sharply after the age of 50. About 75% of new cases occur in individuals at average risk (1,2). The goal of achieving effective prevention of cancer is motivated by the prediction that CRC will become the leading cause of death, surpassing heart disease, by the end of this decade. Despite continuing advances in diagnosis and therapy, long-term survival has not improved signiï¬cantly over the last four decades, and nearly 50% of CRC patients will eventually die of their disease (1,2), with an estimated number of more than 1,000,000 new cases in the year 2002 and >500,000 deaths. These statistics reï¬ect the fact that most cancers are still refractory to most treatment modalities in at least 50% of the cases. Survival is directly related to the extent of