Fig. 2.

In the current survey, we attempted to assess the transition in the real number of patients newly diagnosed with LC. Most of the participating hospitals presented data up to 2016, as the complete data of 2017 were unavailable before the deadline for abstract submission (December 2017). Among the participating hospitals, 36 were able to provide the number of LC patients newly diagnosed each year from 2008 to 2016 without missing any years (N = 18,358). We analyzed the data to assess the transition of newly identified LC patients in the same hospitals in 2008–2016