Socioeconomic Disparities in Six Common Cancer Survival Rates in South Korea: Population-Wide Retrospective Cohort Study

• Main Authors: JinWook Lee (Author), JuWon Park (Author), Nayeon Kim (Author), Fatima Nari (Author), Seowoo Bae (Author), Hyeon Ji Lee (Author), Mingyu Lee (Author), Jae Kwan Jun (Author), Kui Son Choi (Author), Mina Suh (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: JMIR Publications, 2024-07-01T00:00:00Z.
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Abstract BackgroundIn South Korea, the cancer incidence rate has increased by 56.5% from 2001 to 2021. Nevertheless, the 5-year cancer survival rate from 2017 to 2021 increased by 17.9% compared with that from 2001 to 2005. Cancer survival rates tend to decline with lower socioeconomic status, and v...