Table 3.
Estimated cancer incidence by age group and sex during 2024 in Korea
| Rank | Age group (yr) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0-14 | 15-34 | 35-64 | ≥ 65 | |
| Men | ||||
| 1 | Leukemia (4.9) | Thyroid (30.7) | Colon and rectum (81.5) | Prostate (454.6) |
| 2 | Non-Hodgkin lymphoma (3.3) | Colon and rectum (13.1) | Thyroid (57.5) | Lunga) (408.2) |
| 3 | Brain and CNS (2.4) | Leukemia (4.2) | Stomach (54.5) | Colon and rectum (228.8) |
| 4 | Liver (0.3) | Non-Hodgkin lymphoma (3.4) | Lunga) (42.4) | Stomach (223.8) |
| 5 | Kidney (0.2) | Testis (3.4) | Prostat (37.7) | Liverb) (139.8) |
| Women | ||||
| 1 | Leukemia (4.2) | Thyroid (91.6) | Breast (193.3) | Lunga) (140.4) |
| 2 | Brain and CNS (2.0) | Breast (14.1) | Thyroid (157.9) | Colon and rectum (139.1) |
| 3 | Non-Hodgkin lymphoma (1.6) | Colon and rectum (8.6) | Colon and rectum (58.6) | Breast (124.9) |
| 4 | Thyroid (1.1) | Cervix uteri (5.2) | Lunga) (33.4) | Stomach (91.9) |
| 5 | Ovary (0.8) | Ovary (4.0) | Stomach (29.1) | Pancreas (68.3) |
CNS, central nervous system.
a)
Includes the lung and bronchus,
b)
Includes the liver and intrahepatic bile duct.