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. 2022 Mar 21;54(2):345–351. doi: 10.4143/crt.2022.179

Table 2.

Estimated crude and age-standardized cancer incidences by sex during 2022 in Korea

Site Crude incidence rates per 100,000 Age-standardized incidence rates per 100,000a)


Both sexes Men Women Both sexes Men Women
All sites 531.6 561.2 502.1 276.7 289.9 276.1

Lip, oral cavity, and pharynx 8.2 11.8 4.6 4.3 6.3 2.5

Esophagus 5.3 9.4 1.2 2.4 4.4 0.6

Stomach 51.2 68.3 34.1 24.0 34.0 15.3

Colon and rectum 56.5 66.8 46.3 26.4 33.8 19.8

Liverb) 28.1 41.9 14.3 12.9 20.9 5.7

Gallbladderc) 16.6 17.9 15.3 6.6 8.3 5.3

Pancreas 17.9 18.5 17.3 7.7 8.9 6.7

Larynx 2.1 3.9 0.2 0.9 1.8 0.1

Lungd) 64.5 84.8 44.3 27.6 39.4 18.6

Breast 54.5 0.4 108.3 33.1 0.2 66.1

Cervix uteri 5.8 - 11.5 3.7 - 7.4

Corpus uteri 7.1 - 14.1 4.2 - 8.3

Ovary 6.1 - 12.3 3.7 - 7.4

Prostate 43.4 87.0 - 18.4 40.3 -

Testis 0.7 1.3 - 0.7 1.3 -

Kidney 13.5 18.9 8.0 7.4 10.8 4.2

Bladder 9.9 16.3 3.6 4.1 7.6 1.3

Brain and CNS 4.2 4.6 3.9 3.0 3.4 2.7

Thyroid 65.6 34.8 96.3 47.6 24.8 71.2

Hodgkin lymphoma 0.7 0.8 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.5

Non-Hodgkin lymphoma 11.7 13.5 9.9 6.7 8.3 5.4

Multiple myeloma 4.1 4.3 3.9 1.8 2.1 1.6

Leukemia 7.7 8.9 6.5 5.7 6.7 4.6

Other and ill defined 46.5 47.2 45.9 23.2 25.9 20.9

CNS, central nervous system.

a)

ge adjusted to the world standard population,

b)

Includes the liver and intrahepatic bile duct,

c)

Includes the gallbladder and other/unspecified parts of the biliary tract,

d)

Includes the lung and bronchus.