Table 4.

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

Site	Crude mortality rates per 100,000			Age-standardized mortality rates per 100,000a)
	Both sexes	Men	Women	Both sexes	Men	Women
All sites	157.4	192.8	122.2	63.3	89.1	44.0
Lip, oral cavity, and pharynx	2.5	3.6	1.3	1.1	1.7	0.5
Esophagus	2.4	4.3	0.5	1.0	1.9	0.2
Stomach	10.5	13.9	7.2	4.1	6.5	2.2
Colon and rectum	17.0	18.9	15.1	6.6	8.8	4.7
Liverb)	18.5	27.2	9.9	7.7	13.0	3.2
Gallbladderc)	10.7	11.7	9.7	3.9	5.2	2.8
Pancreas	14.1	14.5	13.7	5.6	6.8	4.6
Larynx	0.4	0.8	0.0	0.2	0.4	0.0
Lungd)	35.5	52.9	18.2	13.4	23.4	5.9
Breast	5.6	0.1	11.2	2.9	0.0	5.7
Cervix uteri	1.5	-	2.9	0.7	-	1.4
Corpus uteri	0.8	-	1.6	0.4	-	0.8
Ovary	2.7	-	5.4	1.3	-	2.5
Prostate	4.4	8.9	-	1.4	3.8	-
Testis	0.0	0.1	-	0.0	0.1	-
Kidney	2.1	2.8	1.4	0.9	1.3	0.5
Bladder	3.3	5.1	1.6	1.1	2.2	0.4
Brain and CNS	2.7	2.8	2.6	1.5	1.7	1.4
Thyroid	0.7	0.4	0.9	0.2	0.2	0.3
Hodgkin lymphoma	0.1	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.0
Non-Hodgkin lymphoma	4.5	5.2	3.8	1.8	2.4	1.3
Multiple myeloma	1.8	2.1	1.6	0.7	0.9	0.5
Leukemia	4.1	4.8	3.4	1.9	2.5	1.5
Other and ill defined	11.4	12.9	10.0	4.8	6.3	3.5

CNS, central nervous system.

^a)Age 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.