Cancer Res Treat.  2023 Jul;55(3):1058-1060. 10.4143/crt.2022.1612.

Right Then, Wrong Now: Early-Onset Colorectal Cancer in Korea

• Shin A
• Jung KW
• Jeong SY

• KMID: 2544186
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.4143/crt.2022.1612

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  Fig. 1 The incidence of colorectal (A), colon (B), and rectal cancer (C) among population aged 20–49 years from the Korea Central Cancer Registry (KCCR) between 1999 and 2019. a)Annual percent change (APC) is significantly different from zero at α=0.05.

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