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KMID : 0378019880310040035
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New Medical Journal
1988 Volume.31 No. 4 p.35 ~ p.42
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A Study on the Malignant Neoplasms as a Cause of Death
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김종대/Kim, Jong Dae
김윤기/강동섭/김문원/배재웅/김종석/정요한/Kim, Yoon Kee/Kang, Dong Sub/Kim, Moo Won/Bae, Jae Woong/Kim, Jong Seok/Chung, Yo Han
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Abstract
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Korea has expirenced the transition from high to low level of mortality and the relative impo ance of different causes of death has been altered. Especially the proportion of deaths due. to malignant neopi sms has been increased and the trend is regarded to be continued almost in every country.
This study was carried to find out the recent pattern of causes of death due to malignant neoplasms using the 198 cause of death statistics.
The major findings are as follows:
1. 118,895 deaths of male (16.19% of classifiable deaths) and 11,026 of female (3.58% of them) wer: due to malignant neoplasms in 1985.
2. The proportion of malignant neoplasms among the deaths from all causes of death shows the hi-- i est
in 55-59 years of age group of male and in 40-44 years of age group of female.
3. The major sites of malignant neoplasms are stomach (37.9% of all kinds of malignant neoplasms), ´ver
(26.2%) and trachen & lung (11.3%) in male and stomach (38.7%) liver (14.1%) and uterus (11.9´ ) in
female.
4. The probability of dying in one year of newborn child could be lowed down to 0.03054 in male . nd 0.04039 in female by eliminating malignant neoplasms as cause of death.
5. And the life expectancy at birth could be 68.48 years in male and 70.91 years in female, which -ve the gains of expectation in male by 3.47 percent as to that under all causes of death and by 2.66 per % -nt in female respectively.
.6. In 60 years of age group of female the expectation of life could be prolonged by 5.27 percent, bu in male it conld be by 10.23 percent as the highest percentile.
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