title: Cancer Incidence in Korea.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  We estimated the incidence of cancer in Korea.
  
  
  METHODS
  The indicence of cancer was estimated using national mortality data, and the incidence data from four frontier regional cancer registries, including Kangwha, Seoul, Busan and Deagu. These four registries served a population about seventeen million, which is almost 38% of entire population in Korea.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The overall age-standardized incidence rates (ASR) were 287.0 and 163.1 per 100,000 for males and females, respectively. Among males, stomach cancer was the most frequent (ASR 69.6), followed by lung cancers, including bronchus cancer (ASR 54.5), liver cancer (ASR 47.0) and colo-rectal cancer (ASR 25.2). The most frequent sites of cancer in females, by rank order, were stomach (ASR 26.8), breast (ASR 20.1), uterine cervix (ASR 18.0), colo-rectum (ASR 15.9), lung (ASR 13.0) and liver (ASR 12.0).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  It is hoped that these results will provide valuable leads for cancer research and cancer control in Korea.
authors.forename: Hai Rim
authors.initials: HR
authors.lastname: Shin
authors.forename: Yoon Ok
authors.initials: YO
authors.lastname: Ahn
authors.forename: Jong Myon
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Bae
authors.forename: Myung Hee
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Shin
authors.forename: Duk Hee
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Choong Won
authors.initials: CW
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Hee Choul
authors.initials: HC
authors.lastname: Ohrr
authors.forename: Don Hee
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Ahn
authors.forename: Jacques
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ferlay
authors.forename: Dornald Maxwell
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Parkin
authors.forename: Dae Kyu
authors.initials: DK
authors.lastname: Oh
authors.forename: Jae Gahb
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Park
keywords: Cancer; Incidence; Registry