Table 4.
The number of patients who received radiation therapy by site and age group in 2013
| Treatment site | Age group |
Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20s or under | 30s | 40s | 50s | 60s | 70s or older | ||
| Metastasis | 150 | 614 | 2,150 | 4,351 | 4,240 | 3,918 | 15,423 |
| Breast | 137 | 1,411 | 4,976 | 4,412 | 1,872 | 689 | 13,497 |
| Gastrointestinal | 15 | 178 | 880 | 2,605 | 2,753 | 2,630 | 9,061 |
| Respiratory | 18 | 60 | 300 | 989 | 1,774 | 2,225 | 5,366 |
| Head and neck | 54 | 132 | 343 | 816 | 867 | 789 | 3,001 |
| Gynecologic | 45 | 257 | 611 | 911 | 529 | 560 | 2,913 |
| Genitourinary | 13 | 20 | 58 | 289 | 854 | 1,398 | 2,632 |
| Central nervous system | 227 | 159 | 285 | 343 | 300 | 239 | 1,553 |
| Lymphoma | 126 | 127 | 215 | 333 | 243 | 277 | 1,321 |
| Soft tissue | 61 | 53 | 75 | 99 | 105 | 125 | 518 |
| Myeloma and plasmacytoma | 0 | 8 | 34 | 87 | 118 | 95 | 342 |
| Leukemia | 118 | 66 | 47 | 45 | 23 | 3 | 302 |
| Skin | 3 | 11 | 25 | 32 | 42 | 112 | 225 |
| Thyroid | 7 | 10 | 26 | 60 | 42 | 61 | 206 |
| Malignant melanoma | 0 | 8 | 17 | 36 | 37 | 31 | 129 |
| Primary bone and cartilage | 25 | 5 | 12 | 26 | 16 | 13 | 97 |
| Endocrine | 18 | 5 | 10 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 59 |
| Others | 9 | 6 | 24 | 51 | 53 | 62 | 205 |
| All cancer | 1,026 | 3,130 | 10,088 | 15,493 | 13,878 | 13,235 | 56,850 |