Guohui Song

TL;DR: There was a marked overall increase in cancer survival from 2003 to 2015 in the population covered by these cancer registries in China, possibly reflecting advances in the quality of cancer care in these areas.

TL;DR: The poor population survival rates in China emphasize the urgent need for government policy changes and investment to improve health services and increasing access of health service in rural areas and providing basic health‐care to the disadvantaged populations will be essential for reducing this disparity in the future.

TL;DR: Among individuals aged 40 to 69 years in high risk areas of upper gastrointestinal cancer, one-time endoscopic screening programme was associated with a significant decrease inupper gastrointestinal cancer incidence and mortality.

TL;DR: The ACI of stomach and esophageal cancer was tremendous and varied substantially among the population in China and preferential policies of medical insurance should be designed to tackle with this burden and further reduce the health care inequalities.

TL;DR: The present study proved short‐term screening efficacy through describing and comparing disease stage distributions of intervention and control populations and found early‐stage esophageal cancer cases accounted for a higher proportion after endoscopy screening, and the efficacy in the target population depends on the intervention compliance.