Table 3.
Comparison of cancer incidence and mortality by cancer type between global and Republic of Korea, 2022.
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1 ASR Cancer Incidence per 100,000 Population |
ASR Cancer Mortality per 100,000 Population |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cancer Type/Site | Global | Republic of Korea | Global | Republic of Korea |
| Bladder | 5.58 | 4.1 | 1.82 | 1.1 |
| Brain, CNS | 3.47 | 3.0 | 2.59 | 1.5 |
| Breast | 46.82 | 33.1 | 12.65 | 2.9 |
| Cervix uteri | 14.12 | 3.7 | 7.08 | 0.7 |
| Colorectum | 18.35 | 26.4 | 8.05 | 6.6 |
| Corpus uteri | 8.37 | 4.2 | 1.72 | 0.4 |
| Esophagus | 4.97 | 2.4 | 4.26 | 1.0 |
| Gallbladder | 1.15 | 6.6 | 0.83 | 3.9 |
| Kidney | 4.42 | 7.4 | 1.46 | 0.9 |
| Leukemia | 5.26 | 5.7 | 3.093 | 1.9 |
| Lip and oral cavity | 4.00 | 4.3 | 1.92 | 1.1 |
| 2 Liver | 8.57 | 14.3 | 7.37 | 7.7 |
| 3 Lung | 23.62 | 27.6 | 16.76 | 13.4 |
| Multiple myeloma | 1.79 | 1.8 | 1.11 | 0.7 |
| Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma | 5.57 | 6.7 | 2.38 | 1.8 |
| Ovary | 6.65 | 3.7 | 3.97 | 1.3 |
| Pancreas | 4.69 | 7.7 | 4.21 | 5.6 |
| Prostate | 29.42 | 18.4 | 7.27 | 1.4 |
| Stomach | 9.18 | 24.0 | 6.09 | 4.1 |
| Thyroid | 9.12 | 47.6 | 0.44 | 0.2 |
1 ASR: age-standardized rates. 2 includes the liver and intrahepatic bile duct, 3 includes the lung and bronchus. Age-Standardized Rate (World) per 100,000, Incidence and Mortality, Both sexes, in 2022, Cancer Today, IARC.—https://gco.iarc.who.int (accessed on 7 June 2024).Global data were adapted from [204] with permission from Copyright © International Agency for Research on Cancer. Republic of Korea data were adapted from [205] (CC By 4.0) with permission from Copyright © 2022 Korean Cancer Association.