Prediction of Cancer Incidence and Mortality in Korea, 2016

To estimate of Korea's current cancer burden, this study aimed to report on projected cancer incidence and mortality rates for the year 2016.Cancer incidence data from 1999 to 2013 were obtained from the Korea National Cancer Incidence Database, and cancer mortality data from 1993 to 2014 were acquired from Statistics Korea. Cancer incidence in 2016 was projected by fitting a linear regression model to observed age-specific cancer incidence...