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Korean Society of Epidemiology, Epidemiology and Health, (37), p. e2015024, 2015

DOI: 10.4178/epih/e2015024

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Changing trends in the incidence (1999-2011) and mortality (1983-2013) of cervical cancer in the Republic of Korea

Journal article published in 2015 by Yoon Park, Champadeng Vongdala, Jeongseon Kim, Moran Ki ORCID
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

Our objective is examining the changing trends in cancer incidence and mortality after implementing the national effort in Korea. The cervical cancer incidence data of Korea were collected from Korean Statistical Information Service. The age-standardized rates per 100,000 were compared in the yearly comparison using Korea population of 2005 and in the worldwide comparison using World standard population based on Segi's for incidence and WHO for mortality. In Korea, the age-standardized incidence rates per 100,000 declined from 17.2 in 2000 to 11.8 in 2011. However, the group aged 25 to 29 in 2011 showed higher rate (ASR: 6.5) than in 2000 (ASR: 3.6). The age-standardized mortality rates per 100,000 populations dropped from 2.81 in 2000 to 1.95 in 2013. In worldwide comparison, the incidence rates are remaining around the average incidence estimate of the more developed regions (ASR: 9.9). The decreasing mortality trend in Korea has observed towards to lower rate shown in Australia (ASR: 1.4) in 2010. The incidence rates of cervical cancer remain higher relatively to the other countries. Moreover, incidence and mortality rates in women aged under or around 30 increased in a recent year. It is necessary to find the effective policy to reduce both incidence and mortality especially in young aged group. The desirable goal of reducing both incidence and mortality is to create the effective policy especially in young aged group.