J Korean Cancer Assoc.  2001 Apr;33(2):136-148.

Cancer Incidence in Daegu in 1997~98: The First Results of the Daegu Cancer Registry

• Lee CW
• Lee MY
• Lim HS
• Sohn SS
• Jeon JK

Abstract

PURPOSE: A population-based cancer registry was set up in January 1, 1997 to estimate the incidence of cancer in Daegu, South Korea.
MATERIALS AND METHODS
Data sources for case-finding and abstracting were hospital inpatients, other sources in hospitals other than inpatients, and private pathology laboratories. The registered cases were matched against two external databases, the death certificate and medical insurance claims.
RESULTS
A total of 7,837 cases (4,203 males, 3,634 females) were registered in 1997~98 excluding 2,718 cases of DCN. The crude incidence rates of all cancers combined were 170.7/100,000 (ASR 255.0) in males and 149.8 (ASR 154.4) in females. In males, the most common cancer was stomach (47.3, ASR 69.0), followed by liver (28.0, ASR 37.6), lung (26.0, ASR 44.1), colorectum (14.9, ASR 23.3),urinary bladder (4.5, ASR 7.0) and prostate (3.5, ASR 7.0). The most common cancer in females was stomach (25.8, ASR 26.9), followed by breast (21.7, ASR 20.4), cervix uteri (21.1, ASR 20.4), colorectum (14.9, ASR 16.0), lung (9.9, ASR 11.0), liver (9.3, ASR 10.1), and thyroid (6.1, ASR 5.7). The overall percentage of microscopically verified and the DCN% were 80.3%, 27.7% in males and 88.7%, 20.7% in females, respectively.
CONCLUSION
These results show that the incidence level of all cancers combined in both sexes in Daegu is approaching that of other industrialized regions in Asia as well as in the world.

Keyword

Cancer registry; Daegu

MeSH Terms

Abstracting and Indexing as Topic
Asia
Breast
Cervix Uteri
Daegu*
Information Storage and Retrieval
Death Certificates
Female
Humans
Incidence*
Inpatients
Insurance
Korea
Liver
Lung
Male
Pathology
Prostate
Stomach
Thyroid Gland
Urinary Bladder