Cancer Statistics in Korea: Incidence, Mortality, Survival, and Prevalence in 2019.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

The current study provides national cancer statistics and their secular trends in Korea, including incidence, mortality, survival, and prevalence in 2019.

Materials and methods

Incidence, survival, and prevalence rates of cancer were calculated using the Korea National Cancer Incidence Database, from 1999 to 2019, with survival follow-up until December 31, 2020. Deaths from cancer were assessed using causes-of-death data obtained from Statistics Korea.

Results

In 2019, newly diagnosed cancer cases and deaths from cancer were reported as 254,718 (ASR, 275.4 per 100,000) and 81,203 (ASR, 72.2 per 100,000), respectively. For the first time, lung cancer (n=29,960) became the most frequent cancer in Korea, excluding thyroid cancer. The overall cancer incidence rate

SUBMITTER: Kang MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9016309 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature