Table 1.

National and regional trends and changes in the incidences of cancers among Korean men

Cancer	National incidences (cases per 100,000 persons)			Regional incidences (cases per 100,000 persons)
				2009-2013
	1999-2003	2004-2008	2009-2013	Min	Median	Max	Absolute differencea)	Relative differenceb)
Stomach	67.9	66.5	63.0	38.9	64.3	94.3	55.4	2.4
Colorectum	31.1	44.3	50.8	27.8	50.5	68.2	40.4	2.5
Lung	50.8	50.1	46.6	33.1	48.8	73.7	40.6	2.2
Liver	45.7	42.3	36.8	24.2	37.2	83.4	59.2	3.4
Prostate	9.7	19.0	26.5	13.7	25.4	48.8	35.1	3.6
Thyroid	2.9	9.8	24.3	3.8	20.9	47.7	43.9	12.6
Gallbladder and biliary tract	8.1	8.5	7.9	4.2	7.6	15.4	11.2	9.9

Min, minimum; Max, maximum.

^a)Absolute difference between maximum and minimum incidence among regions,

^b)Relative difference between maximum and minimum incidence among regions.