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This study presents the 2015 nationwide cancer statistics in Korea, including the incidence, survival, prevalence, and mortality.
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Cancer incidence data from 1999 to 2015 was obtained from the Korea National Cancer Incidence Database and followed...
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This study aimed to report on cancer incidence and mortality for the year 2018 to estimate Korea’s current cancer burden.
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Cancer incidence data from 1999 to 2015 were obtained from the Korea National Cancer Incidence Database, and cancer mortal...
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Conditional survival (CS) provides important information on survival for a period of time after diagnosis. Currently, information on CS patterns of patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is lacking. We aimed to analyze survival rate over time and estimate CS for N...
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This study retrospectively evaluated the clinical outcomes and complications of proton beam therapy (PBT) in a single institution in Korea and quantitatively analyzed the change in tumor volume after PBT using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
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Tw...
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The purpose of this study was to estimate the clinical utilization of radiation therapy (RT) in Korea between 2011 and 2015.
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We analyzed the claims data from the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service to estimate the clinical utilization ...
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Lung cancer is strongly associated to tobacco smoking. However, global statistics estimate that in females the proportion of lung cancer cases that is unrelated to tobacco smoking reaches fifty percent, making questionable the etiology of the disease.
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