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. 2023 Mar 10;55(2):385–399. doi: 10.4143/crt.2023.447

Table 7.

Crude and age-standardized rates of cancer prevalence by sex on January 1, 2020 in Korea

Site/Type Crude prevalence rate per 100,000a) Age-standardized prevalence rate per 100,000b)


Both sexes Men Women Both sexes Men Women
All sites 4,433.9 3,901.2 4,963.8 2,373.6 2,121.4 2,708.5

Lip, oral cavity, and pharynx 61.2 81.8 40.8 33.4 45.8 22.3

Esophagus 24.7 44.0 5.5 11.4 22.1 2.4

Stomach 643.1 850.9 436.4 304.5 436.8 194.1

Colon and rectum 569.8 676.7 463.4 267.5 350.3 199.5

Liver 151.8 227.4 76.6 77.2 122.3 36.0

Gallbladderc) 52.0 53.8 50.2 22.9 27.0 19.7

Pancreas 32.0 32.4 31.6 16.3 17.4 15.6

Larynx 23.9 45.0 2.8 10.9 22.6 1.2

Lung 216.6 258.7 174.7 101.5 131.0 78.8

Breast 545.2 4.0 1,083.6 307.6 2.1 606.2

Cervix uteri 117.8 - 234.9 65.2 - 128.0

Corpus uteri 65.8 - 131.2 37.1 - 73.2

Ovary 50.0 - 99.8 30.8 - 61.4

Prostate 234.5 470.3 - 96.5 223.9 -

Testis 8.5 17.1 - 7.6 14.8 -

Kidney 106.4 144.4 68.6 57.9 82.0 35.8

Bladder 81.5 133.1 30.1 35.7 66.5 11.6

Brain and CNS 26.1 26.9 25.3 21.2 22.5 19.9

Thyroid 953.6 357.5 1,546.6 587.8 226.8 947.2

Hodgkin lymphoma 7.1 8.8 5.4 5.7 6.8 4.6

Non-Hodgkin lymphoma 79.6 90.5 68.7 50.5 60.4 41.1

Multiple myeloma 16.2 17.1 15.3 7.9 9.0 7.0

Leukemia 52.9 58.8 47.0 46.0 51.4 40.6

Other and ill-defined 313.7 302.0 325.3 170.4 180.1 162.4

CNS, central nervous system.

a)

Crude prevalence rate: number of prevalent cases divided by the corresponding person-years of observation. Prevalent cases were defined as patients who were diagnosed between January 1, 1999 and December 31, 2020 and who were alive on January 1, 2021. Multiple primary cancer cases were counted multiple times,

b)

Age-adjusted using the Segi’s world standard population,

c)

Includes the gallbladder and other/unspecified parts of the biliary tract.