The number of lung cancer patients has steadily increased, and health insurance medical expenses exceeded 1 trillion won last year.

The NHIS (Chairman Jeong Ki-seok) announced this by using health insurance treatment data to promote the status of health insurance treatment for lung cancer patients from 2018 to 2022. The number of patients treated increased by 25,236 (27.7%↑) from 91,192 in 2018 to 116,428 in 2022, and the average annual increase rate was 6.3%. The number of men will be 70,564 in 2022, an increase of 22.5% (↑12,969) compared to 57,595 in 2018, and the number of women will be 45,864 in 2022, an increase of 36.5% (↑12,267) compared to 33,597 in 2018. Looking at the composition of medical s