Distribution of cancer cases in South Korea 2022, by cancer type

Published by Statista Research Department, Feb 6, 2025

In 2022, the most commonly diagnosed type of cancer in South Korea, at 12 percent of all cancer cases, was thyroid cancer. Five types of cancer made up around 56 percent of all cancer diagnoses in the country that year.

Distribution of types of cancers diagnosed in South Korea in 2022, by type of cancer

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January 2025

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South Korea

Survey time period

2022

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Values may not add up to 100 percent due to rounding.

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