北京大学肿瘤医院季加孚教授在《柳叶刀》杂志撰文指出,随着胃癌病例的迅速增多,中国必须采取有效措施,来应对这类常见疾病。据估计,中国每年有679100例新发胃癌病例,居中国男性和女性癌症死亡率的第2位。超过80%的胃癌患者在诊断时已经处于晚期,导致其5年生存率很低。2015年中国约有498000人死于胃癌,平均每天有近1364例患者死亡。目前虽然政府已启动3种不同的社会健康保险项目以 Professor Ji Fu-fu of Peking University Cancer Hospital pointed out in The Lancet that with the rapid increase of gastric cancer cases, China must take effective measures to deal with such common diseases. It is estimated that there are 679,100 new cases of gastric cancer in China each year, ranking the second among cancer deaths among men and women in China. More than 80% of gastric cancer patients are already diagnosed late, resulting in a low 5-year survival rate. About 498,000 people died of stomach cancer in China in 2015, with an average of nearly 1,364 deaths each day. Although the government has started 3 different types of social health insurance programs