Cancer screening programs in South-east Asia and Western Pacific

Table 1 Overview of all cancer screening programs in countries, regions and island states in South-East Asia and Western Pacific.*

Country	Design	Cancer types	References
South-East Asia
Bangladesh	Opportunistic	Cervical, Breast, Oral	[54, 77, 78]
Bhutan	Opportunistic	Cervical	[79, 80]
South Korea	Organized	Breast, Cervical, Colorectal, Gastric, Liver, Lung	[36]
India	Opportunistic	Breast, Cervical, Oral	[81,82,83]
Indonesia	Opportunistic	Breast, Cervical, Colorectal	[84,85,86]
Maldives	Opportunistic	Cervical	[87]
Myanmar	Opportunistic	Cervical	[55]
Nepal	Opportunistic	Cervical	[88]
Sri Lanka	Opportunistic	Breast, Cervical, Oral	[89, 90]
Thailand	Organized	Cervical, Colorectal Breast	[33, 37]
Timor-Leste	Unknown
Western Pacific
Australia	Organized	Breast, Cervical, Colorectal	[34]
Brunei Darussalam	Organized	Cervical	[91]
Brunei Darussalam	Opportunistic	Breast, Colorectal, Liver, Nasopharyngeal	[91]
Cambodia	Opportunistic	Cervical, Breast	[55, 92]
China	Opportunistic/Organized local initiatives	Breast, Cervical, Colorectal, Gastric, Liver, Lung, Nasopharyngeal, Oesophageal	[23,24,25, 93,94,95,96,97]
Japan	Organized	Breast, Cervical, Colorectal, Gastric, Lung	[17]
Laos	Opportunistic	Cervical	[55]
Malaysia	Opportunistic	Breast, Cervical, Colorectal	[38, 98, 99]
Mongolia	Opportunistic	Cervical	[100]
New Zealand	Organized	Breast, Cervical, Colorectal	[30]
Papua New Guinea	Unknown
Philippines	Opportunistic	Breast, Cervical, Colorectal, Prostate	[101]
Singapore	Organized	Breast, Cervical, Colorectal	[32]
Taiwan	Organized	Breast, Cervical, Colorectal, Oral	[22, 31, 102, 103]
Vietnam	Opportunistic	Breast, Cervical, Colorectal, Oral	[104]

* Information presented in Table 1 is derived from the selective narrative review

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