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KMID : 0603520040090010049
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Journal of Korean Association of Cancer Prevention
2004 Volume.9 No. 1 p.49 ~ p.55
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Cancer Registration and Statistics in Korea
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Shin Hai-Rim
Won Young-Joo
Jung Kyu-Won
Park Jae-Gahb
Ahn Yoon-Ok
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Abstract
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The cancer registry is an essential part of any national programs of cancer control. In Korea, a hospital-based nationwide cancer registry (The Korea Central Cancer Registry (KCCR)) was started as an ambitious project of the Ministry of Health and Welfare in 1980. In the beginning, 47 nationwide resident-training general hospitals participated in this program. The number of participating hospitals and registered malignancies increased year by year, and 139 hospitals submitted their data diskettes in 2002. In 2002, of the total of 99,025 malignancies registered, 55,398 (55.9%) cases were male and 43,627 (44.1%) cases were female: a sex ratio of 1.27:1. Population-based, regional cancer registry programs are ongoing in collaboration with this Central Cancer Registry Program in 7 large cities (including one small city) and Jeju island in 2003: Seoul, Busan, Daegu, Incheon, Gwangju, Daejeon, Ulsan, and Goyang. In 2002, 4 regional cancer incidence data from Kangwha, Deagu, Busan, Seoul were published in Cancer Incidence in 5 Continents Vol VIII. The incidence of cancer was estimated using national mortality data, and the incidence data from four frontier regional cancer registries. The overall age-standardized incidence rates (ASR) were 296.8 and 161.3 per 100,000 for males and females, respectively. With the contined increase in cancer cases, the total number of cancer cases in Korea continues to rapidly increase.
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KEYWORD
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Cancer Incidence , Registry
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