The five-year relative survival rate for cancer patients increased by 6.6% points in 10 years and has become 72.1%. In Korea, thyroid cancer was the most common, followed by colorectal, lung, and stomach cancers.

On December 28th, the Ministry of Health and Welfare (Minister Kyoo-Hong Cho) and the Central Cancer Registry Cancer (National Cancer Center, Director Hong-Gwan Seo) released the 2021 National Cancer Registry statistics (cancer incidence, relative survival rate, prevalence, etc.).

The number of new cancer cases in 2021 was 277,523, an increase of 27,002 (10.8%) compared to 2020.

This is analyzed to be a result of a resurgence in the use of healthcare servi