Skip to main content
. 2016 May 26;31(Suppl 2):S168–S177. doi: 10.3346/jkms.2016.31.S2.S168

Table 3. Rank of DALYs per 100,000 persons for each cancer type.

Rank Cause DALYs per 100,000
Mean Upper Lower
1 Trachea, bronchus, and lung cancers (C33-34) 594.61 600.97 588.88
2 Liver cancer (C22) 523.43 529.36 518.20
3 Stomach cancer (C16) 449.75 469.92 432.25
4 Colorectal cancer (C18-21) 383.13 400.46 367.98
5 Breast cancer (C50) 190.31 197.24 184.36
6 Pancreatic cancer (C25) 176.17 176.98 175.41
7 Gallbladder and biliary tract cancer (C23-24) 126.10 127.74 124.66
8 Other neoplasms and unspecified cancer 117.09 118.88 115.52
9 Leukemia (C91-95) 110.09 111.32 108.96
10 Thyroid cancer (C73) 102.03 119.05 83.42
11 Brain and nervous system cancer (C70-72) 86.98 87.70 86.36
12 Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (C82-85, 96) 82.76 85.20 80.58
13 Prostate cancer (C61) 61.15 67.23 55.86
14 Esophageal cancer (C15) 59.75 60.60 58.99
15 Cervical cancer (C53) 59.20 61.86 56.90
16 Ovarian cancer (C56) 54.33 55.51 53.27
17 Kidney cancer (C64) 50.52 53.13 48.26
18 Bladder cancer (C67) 44.29 46.56 42.32
19 Multiple myeloma (C88-90) 34.76 35.24 34.30
20 Bone and connective tissue cancer (C40-41, 49) 28.55 29.47 27.75
21 Mouth cancer (C00-08) 25.12 26.04 24.31
22 Laryngeal cancer (C32) 19.93 20.46 19.45
23 Cancer of other parts of the pharynx and oropharynx (C9-10,12-13) 19.51 19.97 19.12
24 Uterine cancer (C54) 19.45 20.79 18.30
25 Non-melanoma skin cancer (C44) 18.02 20.96 16.04
26 Malignant melanoma of skin (C43) 12.28 12.61 11.99
27 Other urinary organ cancer (C65-66) 11.18 11.64 10.78
28 Nasopharyngeal cancer (C11) 8.88 9.10 8.69
29 Hodgkin's disease (C81) 4.11 4.28 3.96
30 Testicular cancer (C62) 1.81 1.98 1.67

DALY, disability-adjusted life year.