Nakagawa-Senda, Hiroko
Hori, Megumi
Matsuda, Tomohiro
Ito, Hidemi http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8023-4581
Funding for this research was provided by:
Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (H29-political-general-016, H29-political-general-015)
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (17K15840)
Article History
Received: 7 August 2018
Accepted: 26 April 2019
First Online: 9 May 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: It is the policy of Japanese Cancer Registries to provide de-identified data to investigators for research purposes. As such the Monitoring of Cancer Incidence in Japan obtained the data to estimate the cancer incidence or survival from the registries. Informed consent was not necessary as in the “Notice from the Director of the Health Service Bureau of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare”, population-based cancer registry tasks were specified as corresponding to “improving public health”, an exception as provided in the Private Information Protection Law, and the “Guidelines for the Appropriate Handing of Personal Information by Medical and Care-related Enterprises” confirmed the policy. This study was approved by the Research Ethics Committee in the National Cancer Center in Japan (Research Ethics Committee reference 2004–061, confirmed on 24 November 2004).
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