ISSN: 2329-8790
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Shigeki Takemoto
National Hospital Organization Kumamoto Medical Center,
1-5 Ninomaru, Kumamoto 860-0008
Japan
Research Article
Effect of Blood Transfusion on Supportive Therapy of Elderly Patients at Kumamoto, Japan as Compared with Khon Kaen, Thailand
Author(s): Ratiorn Pornkuna, Somchai Wongkhante, Sompong Jinathongthai, Satomi Shimogawa and Shigeki TakemotoRatiorn Pornkuna, Somchai Wongkhante, Sompong Jinathongthai, Satomi Shimogawa and Shigeki Takemoto
After rising to the highest level of life expectancy ever in the early 21st century, Japan is expected to become an aged society the links of which no other country in the world has experienced. The aging rate in Kumamoto exceeds the national average and is one of the top ranking long living societies in Japan. The old population of Khon Kaen is also the second-largest of aging population in Thailand. More than 2,500 patients with malignant neoplasm were treated every year at National Hospital Organization Kumamoto Medical Center (KMC) in Japan as well as at Khon Kaen Regional Hospital (KKH) in Thailand. Especially KMC had so many patients older and equal 60 years accounted for 70% of those patients. Patients with malignant tumors in KMC were in the 8th decade (29.6% in 2011), while those in KKH were in the 6th decade (26.1% in 2011). In addition, the number of patients with cancer wa.. View More»
DOI:
10.4172/2329-8790.1000152